• Teens to be awarded for their Good Deeds

    Aunique community service milestone will take place June 15 at East Brunswick’s town hall — the recognition of 18 award-winning teenagers for their community service and good deeds. The Good Deed Awards, a nonsectarian program in its second year, is coordinated by the Chabad of East Brunswick, this year in conjunction with the public high…

  • Area officials unhappy with offender ruling

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Local towns that placed restrictions on where convicted sex offenders can live in order to keep them away from areas where children congregate may have to rescind those ordinances. Spotswood and Sayreville are among the municipalities across the state that attempted to prohibit convicted sex offenders from living near schools…

  • Board hears testimony on Foerter Farm plans

    Ten new homes sought on Riva Ave. produce farm BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — An application to develop the Foerter Farm is before the Planning Board, but some residents say the plan would impact their quality of life and change the neighborhood’s character. During the May 27 board meeting, representatives of the…

  • Man stabbed at So. River club

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — A New Brunswick man was arrested on charges of allegedly stabbing his cousin with a 4-inch folding knife at a family wedding over the weekend, police said. Officerswere dispatched to the Portuguese Club on John Street on a report of a fight at 1:53 a.m. on May…

  • E.B. school’s ‘Strides’ enable 25 kids to walk

    Churchill project combines fitness with philanthropy Donna Hamer had an idea. The Churchill Junior High School teacher thought, somehow, she could involve the entire East Brunswick school in an educational project, while at the same time raising money to help children around the world who cannot walk due to the condition known as clubfoot. PHOTOS…

  • Milltown proposes 324 units for Ford Ave.

    Latest plan is aimed at winning judge’s approval BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Milltown officials are moving forward with plans to change the Ford Avenue redevelopment project in order to fulfill the town’s affordable housing obligation to the state. Though the original plan for the 22.5- acre tract called for 276 housing units, of which…

  • MOM line dead?

    Panel favors service through Monmouth, not Middlesex BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Passenger train service would be limited to inland Monmouth and Ocean counties if NJ Transit administrators follow through on the recommendation of a working group of stakeholders. On May 27, NJ Transit announced that members of a working group from Monmouth, Ocean and…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Members of Sky Blue FC, New Jersey’s professional soccer team in the women’s league, practice in the rain at Heavenly Farms in East Brunswick May 26. The formal training session was a chance for East Brunswick Soccer Club coaches and players to watch and meet with members of the team.

  • Carmen Michael Gonnella

    Mr. Gonnella, 43, of Old Bridge, formerly of Spotswood, died May 24, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2006, he was employed as a welder with Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for 18 years. His father, Donato Gonnella, died in 1990. Surviving are his wife,…

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