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Teacher’s film tells story of So. Amboy explosion
BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent About 15 years ago, Frank Yusko, a history teacher at Spotswood High School, made two films about a city that blew up twice, as he put it. Those films, “The Morgan Explosion of 1918” and “South Amboy’s Night to Remember: Powder Pier’s Explosion of 1950,” captured first and secondhand accounts of…
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Attorney withdraws from boro pub case
Bar owner told to have lawyer for June 8 hearing BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Athird attempt to hold a hearing on the fate of a Sayreville bar was adjourned again last week, this time because the attorney representing the liquor license holder withdrew from the case. South River-based attorney Antonio J. Toto was representing…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Visitors look over some of the works on display at the Old Bridge Education Foundation’s recent Arts Festival at Old Bridge High School.
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Parties near closing on National Lead parcel
Sayreville allocates $800,000 toward open space purchase BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville will contribute $800,000 toward the purchase of 70 acres of land on the former National Lead site. The Borough Council voted unanimouslyMay 18 to allocate the funds for the parcel, which is on the eastern side of the expansive NL property, as…
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Developer seeks to add 16 homes to office plan
Whispering Pines residents gear up for another battle BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Developer Thomas Galante has returned to the Old Bridge Zoning Board of Adjustment, much to the dismay of some residents who live near his vacant property off Route 516. Galante won approval in January 2007 to construct an office building and water…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Natalie Norcutt of Jonas Salk Middle School tries to make a tag on Paige Wiatnoski of Carl Sandburg Middle School when the two Old Bridge schools faced off in the annual charity softball game recently at Veterans Park. See page 36.
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Alexander J. Saccoccio Jr.
Mr. Saccoccio, 55, of Old Bridge, died May 22, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his father, Alexander Saccoccio Sr. Surviving are a daughter, Alexis Saccoccio; his mother, Alice Saccoccio; a brother, Thomas Saccoccio; three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Noel and Kenneth Passarelli, Holly and Woody Poss and…
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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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Amelia Helen Wright Kessler
Mrs. Kessler, 88, of Old Bridge, died May 23, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. Her husband, William J. Kessler, died in 1994. Surviving are three daughters, Joyce Connell and Karen Wieczorek, both of Old Bridge, and Gerry LeBedz of Jamesburg; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services were held at Simpson United…
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