• Holt town hall meeting to focus on economy

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The economy will be the focus when Congressman Rush Holt holds a town hall meeting at the township Senior Center on Saturday. Holt will appear at 2 p.m., along with economist Jesse Rothstein of Princeton University. Leslie Potter, Holt’s district director in New Jersey, said the event…

  • E.B. board anticipates difficult budget year

    School district awaits aid figures from state BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Board of Education is awaiting word from the state regarding aid levels before adopting a tentative budget for 2009-2010. During a Feb. 26 meeting, school Business Administrator Bernardo Giuliana said district officials have been working on the budget since…

  • Many enter ‘beautiful’ works in library show

    Professionals, amateurs compete in juried exhibition BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent BERNIE LONG Jamesburg Public Library Board President Carole Hetzell congratulates Ron Villegas, first-place winner in the library’s second annual art show and sale. The exhibit, which opened Sunday and focuses on photography, runs through March 22. JAMESBURG — Beginner’s luck came in a double dose…

  • Age doesn’t slow down champion swimmer, 64

    E.B. man swims for health, and the love of competition BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Maryland may have Michael Phelps to brag about, but East Brunswick has Jim Dragon. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY Jim Dragon of East Brunswick goes through his regular swimming practice at the Middlesex County College swimming pool on a recent morning.…

  • Spotswood keeps tax hike ‘within reason’

    Officials caution that state could take away more aid BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Spotswood officials were pleasantly surprised to learn the municipal tax rate increase for this year’s budget may be just 4 cents. But officials tempered that enthusiasm with the recollection that last year’s budget was at first thought to contain no tax…

  • Game over: Board of Ed. victorious over coach

    Supreme Court will not hear Marcus Borden case BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer After four years of legal wrangling and national attention, East Brunswick High School football coach Marcus Borden’s fight to participate in team prayer has apparently come to an end. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Borden’s petition to hear the case,…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Serge Hunt of Jamesburg clears a path with a snowblower on East Sedgwick Street early Monday morning when the area was blanketed with more than a half-foot of snow.

  • Virginia Richards Schwolow

    Mrs. Schwolow, 85, of Sayreville, died Feb. 2, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, John Schwolow; a son, John Carl Schwolow Jr. of Piscataway; three daughters, Mary Lou Koslov of Sayreville, Ann Marie Tumelo of Panama and Frances Sue Unruh, and her husband, Orv, of New Mexico; a brother,…

  • Virginia J. Bozza

    Mrs. Bozza, 78, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 24, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are her husband, Cosimo Bozza; two daughters, Theresa Hicks, and her husband, Fred, of Hamilton and Roseanna Prusiensky, and her husband, Paul, of Oak Ridge; two sons, Anthony Bozza, and his wife, Donna, of East Brunswick…

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