• NAIOP New Jersey accepting nominations for 27th Annual Commercial Real Estate Awards

    NAIOP New Jersey, the commercial real estate development association, is accepting nominations for the 27th Annual Commercial Real Estate Awards, the industry’s most prestigious honors. Details and nomination forms are available at www.naiopnj.org/gala27. The awards will be presented at the Gala on May 15, 2014 at the Palace at Somerset Park. The awards honor excellence…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Madison Park Girls Softball League will be holding in-person registration dates for the 2014 softball season on Dec. 6 from 6-8:30 p.m. and Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m at the Madison Park Little League Field House (Old Bridge North Titans Fields) located on Cheesequake Road in the Parlin section of Old Bridge.…

  • Bears have a bright future with talent at 8th-grade level

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent I t hasn’t been a particularly stellar season for Bob Molarz in his first season as coach of the East Brunswick High School football team. The Bears, with their annual Thanksgiving Day rivalry contest with Old Bridge High School left on the 2013 schedule, are 1-8 and will be a decided…

  • Area football teams’ state playoff runs fall short

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Monroe Township High School running back Akeer Franklin (33) is consoled by teammate Russell Clay after Monroe lost to Sayreville War Memorial High School, 35-34, in the opening round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group V playoffs. The game was played in Monroe on Nov. 15. SCOTT FRIEDMAN MONROE TOWNSHIP F…

  • Fab Faux brings Beatles’ classics to New Brunswick

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Like most rock musicians, professional bassist and singer Will Lee has an undying devotion to the momentous musical catalog of the Beatles. But where many enthusiasts saw a blemish on the British band’s career, Lee saw an opportunity. With the aid of a cache of talented studio musicians, John Lennon,…

  • Erratic driver sentenced for killing two women

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A fit of fear supposedly captured Emmanuel Garcia, 30, of the Bronx, N.Y., when he stopped at a red light on Route 18 and saw a police car behind him on Oct. 1, 2012. The officer had not pulled him over, but Garcia knew he was driving…

  • Two charged with burglary of South River residence

    SOUTH RIVER — Two borough residents were arrested last week after they were allegedly caught in the act of breaking into a house on Eberwein Street. Police said the two suspects, Abdus Jones, 23, and Ciara Gordon, 25, were observed peeking into a window of the residence on the morning of Nov. 11. Patrolman Jonathan…

  • Rose C. Amoroso

    Mrs. Amoroso, of East Brunswick, died Nov. 2, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, John Amoroso; two sons, Gregory of New York and Joseph, and his wife, Clare, of Freehold; two daughters, Kathleen, and her husband, Joseph, of Monroe and Mary Elizabeth of Hamilton; a sister, Angeline, and…

  • Frances Mickett

    Mrs. Mickett, 92, of East Brunswick, died Nov. 11, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was the founder of the Crisis Room at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, East Brunswick, and served as its director for more than 30 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Mickett Jr. Surviving are a…

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