• Bulldogs shut out Rams to kick off football season

    VARSITY REPORT MATT DENTON By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent J.P. Stevens High School’s Leonard Draughn (5) breaks through the Sayreville War Memorial High School defensive line to pick up yards during the Sept. 11 game in Parlin. Sayreville won the season-opener for both schools, 35-7. METUCHEN Metuchen High School’s football team received disappointing news two weeks…

  • Delicious Orchards Apple Fest set for Sept. 19 & 20

    Delicious Orchards will hold its eighth annual Apple Fest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20, rain or shine. This year’s Apple Fest will entail a full antique car display of more than 40 cars ranging back to the early 1900s, games, local vendors offering product samplings, a clown, live music, and…

  • Edison woman, coworkers get probation in infant death

    EDISON — A township woman and two other former employees of a Highland Park day care center received probationary terms after they were charged with endangering the welfare of a 9-week old boy who died at the facility, according to authorities. Blanca Jimenez, 61, of Edison, was placed on a two-year probationary term known as…

  • The Bastard Executioner

    FX, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. New Series Sons of Anarchy scribe Kurt Sutter brings us this gripping and brutal 10- episode series that tells the story of a warrior knight in King Edward I’s charge who is broken by the ravages of war and vows to lay down his sword. But when that violence finds…

  • Did you know …

    Blake Shelton “The Voice” TRAE PATTON/NBC “The Voice” returns to NBC with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete during season eight, premiering Monday, Sept. 21 from 8 to 10 p.m. Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani serve as the celebrity musician coaches, while Carson Daly serves as host.…

  • Remembering Cary Grant

    By Ali Datko, ReMIND Magazine If there ever was a self-made man to come through Hollywood, he would be perennial heartthrob Cary Grant. Born Archibald Alexander Leach into an unhappy family in Bristol, England, in 1904, Cary’s early years were wrought with abandonment as his mother was committed to a mental institution and young Cary…

  • Woodbridge tax jump smallest in years

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — The Township Council has adopted the 2016 budget that includes the smallest tax increase in 15 years. The council adopted the $146.8 million spending plan, which represents a $7.6 million increase over last year’s adopted $139.2 million budget, during the Sept. 1 Township Council meeting. The budget includes…

  • Going up: Edison zoners approve high-tech billboard at Tano Mall

    By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent EDISON — A billboard in the township is going high tech, thanks to a recent zoning board approval. Wick Companies of Woodbridge applied for use variances to replace its existing one-sided billboard at the Tano Mall shopping center with a larger, higher, two-sided electronic billboard with two cellar antennae. One side…

  • In a pickle

    Above: Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac returns a shot to 93-year-old Joe Schifaudo during their pickleball match held at the William Warren Park Recreation Center in Woodbridge as part of the New Jersey Senior Olympics on Sept. 11. Schifaudo triumphed, 7-2. Left: Joe Schifaudo, a 93-year-old senior Olympian, arrives in good spirits for the match. PHOTOS…

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