• So. Amboy school tab brings $85 tax hike

    Public also asked to reinstate middle school sports April 21 BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent South Amboy’s Board of Education is not facing optimal circumstances when it comes to the school budget. “It’s not a very good situation,” said Carolyn Joseph, school business administrator. South Amboy, she said, has the lowest school taxes in Middlesex County,…

  • Making a kite

    Left: Members of Sayreville Cub Scouts Pack 97 put together kites during an instructional course at Longstreet Farm in Holmdel on March 28. Below: Cub Scout Devin Markwood, 6, gets some help making his kite. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Commuters petition for return to Inverness

    Bus stop was moved after traffic light was deactivated BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer More than 300 commuters have petitioned Old Bridge officials to reactivate a Route 9 traffic signal and return bus service to the Inverness Drive park-and-ride. The NJ Transit riders said the township switched their bus stop last December from Inverness to…

  • Four share views on school issues

    Two incumbents, two newcomers run for board BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Sayreville voters will go to the polls April 21 to elect three of four candidates seeking three-year terms on the Board of Education. Kevin Ciak Among the candidates are incumbents Kevin Ciak and Jill Trapp and newcomers Helen Bruno-Raccuia and Laurie Esposito. Ciak,…

  • Photo

    ERIC SUCAR staff Old Bridge High School students look over the design on a sports car after an airbrush demonstration by Richard Markham of the Baran Institute of Technology in the school’s automotive class March 31. More photos, page 27.

  • James R. Robba

    Mr. Robba 81, of East Brunswick, formerly of Edison, died March 31, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Ida Sewell-Robba; three daughters, Dolores Ordille, and her husband, Robert, and Barbara Dipierro, and her husband, William Jr., all of Monroe, and Patricia Nugent, and her husband, Don, of the…

  • Manuel “Papi” Parada

    Mr. Parada, 74, of East Brunswick, died March 25, 2009, in Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice, Edison. Prior to his retirement in 2005, he was employed as a maintenance mechanic with Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he worked for 20 years. Surviving are his wife, Kazimiera Szwaja Parada; three sons, Peter Parada, and his wife,…

  • Nikolai Kalinin

    Mr. Kalinin, 102, of South River, died March 29, 2009, in Summerhill Care Center, Old Bridge. Prior to his retirement in 1976, he was employed as a machine operator with Algrow Knitting Mills, Milltown, where he worked for 30 years. His wife, Olga, died in 2007, and a daughter, Nina, died in 2002. Surviving are…

  • Mary Ann Elizabeth Mutarelli Peoples

    Mrs. Peoples, 48, died March 26, 2009, in Old Bridge. Her mother, Antoinette Orzo Mutarelli, died in 2006. Surviving are two daughters, Jessica Peoples of East Brunswick and Alexas Brown of Old Bridge; a son, David Peoples of Old Bridge; her father, Joseph Mutarelli of Oveido, Fla.; two brothers, Joseph Mutarelli and Angelo Mutarelli, and…

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