• Fans turn out for Rutgers’ Big Ten football debut

    By JIMMY ALLINDER It’s been over a year-and-a-half since Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany stood at the podium in the Rutgers University team meeting room at the Hale Center and announced the State University of New Jersey would become the 14th member of the conference. Much has happened behind the scenes in preparation for Rutgers’…

  • J.P. Stevens football looks to improve under Holt

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Metuchen High School’s Evan Collier pulls down a pass during the Sept. 13 game against South River High School in Metuchen. The Bulldogs held the visiting Rams scoreless and won, 9-0. JP STEVENS B ryan Holt is the third first-year head coach in three years for the J.P. Stevens High School…

  • A&E with Jeremy

    Network TV fights back this fall Jeremy Grossman The fall 2014 television season is officially underway, with new shows and returning favorites making their premieres in the coming weeks. But the current television landscape makes it more and more challenging for the broadcast networks — ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS — to compete with the…

  • Five simple tips to enhance your home’s personality

    Your home can say a lot about you.A state-of-the-art kitchen outfitted with a double oven likely means you enjoy cooking and entertaining friends and family. Likewise, a backyard complete with play sets, a treehouse or a basketball hoop is a sure sign your house is also a hangout for the neighborhood kids. “My house is…

  • Add appeal, save on your remodeling project

    Tips to make the most of your budget For those who wish to make updates to their home, the kitchen is a great place to begin.According to the 2013 Cost vs.Value report from Remodeling magazine, a minor kitchen remodel should recoup up to 75 percent of total remodeling dollars, based on the value of the…

  • Look locally when shopping for your fall home improvement needs

    Woodhaven Lumber The fall season is the perfect backdrop for deep cleaning, home spruce-ups and home improvement projects you’ve been putting off, inside and outside of your home. Now is the time to shop around for those household items you need and desire. It is also the time to find just the right company to…

  • Advocates unsatisfied with developmental center hearing

    By JESSICA D’AMICO A dvocates for residents of the soon-toclose Woodbridge Developmental Center (WDC) left a recent statesponsored public hearing with unanswered questions about the future of their loved ones. The state Department of Human Services (DHS) held the hearing Sept. 2 in New Brunswick to provide a forum for parties concerned about the planned…

  • Suggestion for Main Street bridge woes

    A ccording to a story in the Sept. 10 Sentinel, the Amtrak-owned railroad bridge over Metuchen’s Main Street has been impacted by trucks 55 times in the last five and a half years, an average of 10 crashes a year, or nearly one a month. I have lived in Metuchen since 1975 and would guess…

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    Colorful mums bring a feeling of fall to Battleview Orchards, Freehold Township.

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