• Girl, 17, critically injured in crash

    JAMESBURG — A borough teenager was critically injured when she was involved in a motor vehicle accident last week. The 58- year-old driver of the other vehicle was charged with driving while intoxicated following the accident. Karlee N. Zelasko, 17, was in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick following the…

  • Police: Man carjacked at E.B. mall

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Police are investigating a carjacking that took place Monday evening outside the Brunswick Square Mall, Route 18. Around 7:30 p.m., police were called to the parking lot outside Macy’s on the report of a possible carjacking to meet with the alleged victim, a 77-year-old male resident of East Brunswick. The man told…

  • Former Eckerd building will get two new uses

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — After several years of being known as the vacant Eckerd drugstore, the building on the corner of Thomas and Main streets will now house a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant and a Laundromat. In a unanimous vote April 21, the Planning Board voted in favor of an application from…

  • Students use creativity in books for Ugandans

    Project aims to help youth at school in war-torn nation BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Above: East Brunswick High School students, including Lilyia Dmitrieva and Eugene Sidykh sitting back to back in front, show their books for the children of Lungulu. Below, East Brunswick High School Rebecca Sudul works on a book to be sent…

  • Advocate says officials violated disclosure laws

    Ethics Board chairman calls lack of filings ‘unfortunate’ BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Acomplaint has been filed with the Ethics Board claiming that numerous Milltown officials failed to file their required financial disclosure statements with the borough. John Paff, chairman of the Open Government Advocacy Project for the New Jersey Libertarian Party, filed the ethics…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Becca Lubitz sponges down an April 25 car wash fundraiser to benefit the East Brunswick High School girls lacrosse team.

  • Troupe is preparing for first season at new theater

    East Brunswick, Playhouse 22 sign deal for use of arts center BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Playhouse 22 is back. Nearly four years after performing its final show in its former home on Dunhams Corner Road, the local theater troupe will begin a full season of productions this fall. Its shows will be performed at…

  • Shovels in the dirt as E.B. opens garden

    Eighty plots sold out quickly for inaugural season BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent After two years of planning, East Brunswick’s Community Garden opened Saturday with plenty of good will, a few laughs and lots of digging and planting. ERIC SUCAR staff Ten-year-old Gil Wyman of East Brunswick works on his plot in the township’s Community…

  • Milton F. “Matt” Meade Jr.

    Mr. Meade, 61, of South River, died April 27, 2009, at home. He was employed for the past 10 years by Walters Auto Body, Sayreville. He was predeceased by his parents, Milton F. and Rose Razzano Meade. Surviving are a sister, Roseann Geiger, and her husband, Phillip, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a brother, Michael Meade, and…

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