• Helping hands

    Clockwise from top left: Lois Nemec of Spotswood, a member of the Nimble Fingers knitting and crochet group, knits a sweater at the borough’s Office on Aging on July 14. Dolores Rosati of Spotswood crochets a baby blanket during a recent session. A member knits one of the items to be donated to area nursing…

  • Spotswood to dedicate fire truck with ceremony, parade

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The borough’s new fire truck will be dedicated during an Aug. 22 ceremony at the Main Street firehouse. The apparatus was recently purchased for approximately $600,000, according to Borough Council President Curtis Stollen. Bruce Engstrom, an active life member of the fire department, said the truck dedication ceremony…

  • Taubenslag honored for 50 years of work

    Tributes abound as children’s theater director retires BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Elliott Taubenslag wraps up 50 years of work with local youth in East Brunswick’s Children’s Summer Theater program. The longtime program director retired at the end of this summer’s run. EAST BRUNSWICK — Elliott Taubenslag can recall the township’s very first…

  • Loose pit bulls attack man at E.B. apartment complex

    EAST BRUNSWICK — A township man was attacked last week by two pit bulls that were running around loose in an apartment complex. Police responded to the Royal Gardens apartments on Tices Lane at 7:35 p.m. Aug. 10 after a 37-year-old male who lived in the complex was attacked. The man had arrived home from…

  • County prepares schools to deal with swine flu

    Vaccines to be distributed for students, staff this fall BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer Educators from throughout Middlesex County gathered last week to discuss a federally recommended school-based vaccination program to halt the spread of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, in the coming school year. The Middlesex County Public Health Department organized the meeting for…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Jim Wehringer of Monroe hands his son, Brett, 5, a 15-inch largemouth bass that they caught during Monroe Township’s annual Fishing Derby at Molder’s Fishing Farm off Englishtown Road on Aug. 11. Brett’s sister, Brooke, 6, looks on with excitement.

  • Divorced parents fight denial of dual bus passes

    District previously allowed passes at both parents’ homes BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Divorced parents of East Brunswick students learned this summer that their children will no longer be bused to and from both parents’ homes. Bonny Berger Kelter said she was shocked to receive a letter from the school district in July informing her…

  • School merger called a ‘no-win’ situation

    Spotswood, Helmetta officials raise concerns about costs BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Local officials in Spotswood and Helmetta remain unhappy with the forced merger of their school districts. Following a meeting last week involving representatives of both towns and the state Department of Education, which ordered the consolidation this summer, Spotswood officials said they are…

  • Monroe Township man killed in Englishtown crash

    By Mark Rosman Monroe Twp. man killed in Englishtown crash By Mark Rosman ENGLISHTOWN — An 18-year-old male died in a two-vehicle crash on Wood Avenue (Route 522) on the night of Aug. 25. Englishtown police Sgt. Richard Settele said the driver of one of the vehicles, Matthew Bowdenhodge, 18, of Monroe Township, was pronounced…

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