• A slap in the face to a Brick legend

    Afew words come to mind to describe Superintendent of Schools Walter J. Hrycenko’s recent treatment of Warren Wolf, the only football coach Brick Township High School has ever had. “Lousy” is one of them. “Incomprehensible” and “shameful” are several others. Those words could also apply to the treatment dedicated assistant football coaches like Len Zdanowicz…

  • Nightly newscast: Be afraid, be very afraid

    Coda • GREG BEAN Whenever someone asked what I did for a living, I never said I’m in “the media.” “I’m a local newspaperman,” I told them. “There’s a big difference.” Fact is, most local newspaper people of my long acquaintance are idealists who really do want to change the world by making a positive…

  • Business Briefs

    Meridian Health Affiliated Foundations will host its 2009 Healthcare Perspectives luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. May 8 at the Ocean Place Resort and Spa in Long Branch. The event benefits Meridian’s not-for-profit hospitals and community health programs in Monmouth and Ocean counties. Join Annette Catino, president and chief executive officer of QualCare Inc.,…

  • Assailants rob victim at warehouse

    Dalord Dumas SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two masked assailants attacked a security guard at a warehouse in the Dayton section of town. Police were dispatched to the scene at 11:15 p.m. April 24, according to a police press release, when they found a female security guard with her wrists bound at the Home Depot warehouse on…

  • Fire destroys Carpenter Road home

    Donations being accepted to help family of five NORTH BRUNSWICK — On Sunday, a fire on Carpenter Road left the house deemed unsafe and a family of five displaced. Project LEAL will be collecting clothing and gift cards through May 15. Donations can be left with the site supervisors at LEAL or at the Department…

  • Manalapan dancer’s career is ‘Movin’ Out’ on the road

    Will be at the State Theatre, New Brunswick, next week BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer W hen Gregory DeSantis of Manalapan was much younger he kept the fact that he was a student of dance to himself. He started taking acting lessons at age 8 because he believed dancing was traditionally for girls — even…

  • Residents get a look at new FEMA maps

    Digital documents show fewer buildings are in flood plain BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer DAN NEWMAN Local officials look at some of FEMA’s new digital maps that were on display at the Dunellen Senior Center on April 16. The maps should be adopted and go into effect by April 2010. DUNELLEN — Residents of Middlesex…

  • Israeli Independence Day

    The JCC of North & South Brunswick Nursery School at Congregation B’nai Tikvah, North Brunswick, had their Yom HaAtzmaut, or Israel Independence Day, parade last week. The whole school made an Israeli flag banner consisting of all the children’s and teachers’ handprints. The mascot was Blue Box Bob from the Jewish National Fund.

  • Walk like …

    Students of art teacher Nathan Cedervall displayed their Egyptian sarcophaguses in the hallways of Judd Elementary School in North Brunswick last month. The project was an interdisciplinary study involving art, writing, social studies and technology.

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