• Sayreville seeks permits for Main St. Bypass plan

    Road is planned to run east-west for four miles BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer Sayreville officials are moving forward with plans to build the controversial Main Street Bypass. The borough recently submitted applications for several state environmental permits that are required before further work can begin on the multiyear project. CME Associates, the borough’s designated…

  • Frederick R. Skurka

    Mr. Skurka, 79, of Sayreville, died Oct. 19, 2009, in CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Prior to his retirement in 1990, he was employed as a sheet-metal worker with Middlesex Sheet Metal, Jamesburg. His wife, Jean LaVerne Rampacek Skurka, died in 1997. He also was predeceased by three brothers, Aloysius, John and Walter Skurka. Surviving…

  • Knights to sponsor Nov. 11 Cash for Gold

    St. Thomas Knights of Columbus Council No. 4815 will sponsor a Cash for Gold fundraiser 7-10 p.m. Nov. 11 at the council hall, 61 Pine St., Old Bridge. Guests will be offered immediate payment for unwanted gold, silver and platinum jewelry; U.S. and foreign coins; sterling silver; watches; etc. For more information, call 732-251-9817.

  • Tickets on sale for trip to see ‘Wintuk’

    Our Lady of Victories (OLV) Parish will sponsor a Dec. 10 bus trip to see “Cirque du Soleil: Wintuk” at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The bus will depart at 9 a.m. from the lower parking lot at the parish, Main Street, Sayreville. Return will be at approximately 5:30 p.m. Cost is $80 and…

  • Sports Shorts

    The Cheesequake Baseball and Softball League will hold in-person registration for the 2010 season 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 21 and Dec. 12 at the Cheesequake field located on Route 9 north and Schulmeister Road in Old Bridge. To mail in registration, go to www.leaguelineup.com/cqba and click on handouts to download an application. In…

  • Rutgers SCREAM Theater addresses dating violence

    10%-38% of high school students are victims BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Abusive relationships aren’t the usual topical fare for Old Bridge High School events, but the theme was on prominent display at a recent in-school assembly. Erdoo Tor-Agbidye and Anthony Grand of Rutgers University’s SCREAM Theater perform a skit portraying an abusive relationship for…

  • Joseph J. Boka Sr.

    Mr. Boka, 79, of North Brunswick, died Oct. 30, 2009, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a warehouseman at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cranbury, for 23 years, retiring in 1996. He was predeceased by two daughters, Ann Marie and Marian Boka; and two brothers, John and Laszlo Boka. He is survived by his wife…

  • Lindbergh document evidence to be topic

    “Hauptmann’s Handwriting,” a program examining the handwriting evidence in the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, is set for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Old Bridge Public Library Main Branch, Route 516 and Cottrell Road. Guest presenter will be Michael Krakowski, a court-qualified forensic document examiner who has conducted research on the case’s handwriting…

  • Responsible cat neutering means less and less feral colonies

    Iwas a resident of South River for most of my life, then moved to Manchester and more recently to Ohio. Everywhere, it is the same story — ignorant people do not have their cats neutered and then let the cats outside to reproduce, to the point that a feral colony ensues. Whose fault is that?…

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