Tag: South Amboy
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Pre-K programs are crucial to the future success of New Jersey
By KATHY CHANG SOUTH AMBOY — State officials believe that focusing on educating students at an early age will result in a brighter future for New Jersey. “We kind of fell off the tracks,” Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) said during a visit with Sen. Joe Vitale (D-Middlesex) to the Children’s Center for Learning on Broadway…
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Testimony shows discrepancies in stories the night young boy went missing
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — In the days that five-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey was reported missing in May 1991, police were following up on countless leads and utilizing strategies offered by the FBI to garner more information from his mother, Michelle Lodzinski. One of those strategies included bringing in a woman to…
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Henry named chairman of South Amboy Democrats
By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — The city’s Democratic organization has a new leader, and it is the same person the organization pushed out just a year and a half ago. Mayor Fred Henry, who the organization declined to support in his bid for re-election in 2014, now leads the Democrats and has taken the…
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Developer will convert townhome project into rentals in South Amboy
By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Real estate firm Woodmont Properties is looking to convert the townhomes that were approved for construction off lower Broadway to rentals. Woodmont attorney Stephen Santola said during the March 23 Planning Board meeting that the original townhouse plan, announced in 2012, is not a viable project in the…
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Witnesses build case against Lodzinski
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Almost two weeks after five-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey was reported missing in May 1991, the different agencies of law enforcement working the case were in agreement that his mother, Michelle Lodzinski, was the primary suspect in his disappearance. Sayreville Detective Sgt. Richard Sloan, now retired, told the…
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YMCA of Metuchen, Edison Woodbridge and South Amboy honors award-winners Bill Lovett and Mickey Gross
William “Bill” Lovett will be honored with the Charles S. Edgar Memorial Award for his outstanding work with the YMCA and the community. Lovett is the currently the executive director of The New Jersey Alliance for YMCAs, a not-for-profit association made up of 37 YMCAs from the state of New Jersey. Prior to this position,…
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YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge and South Amboy
The YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge and South Amboy summer camps offer day camps to give children and pre-teens in Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge Township, South Amboy and Piscataway. “YMCA summer camp supports the social-emotional growth, cognitive development and physical well-being of kids,” says Lisa Sanguiliano, district executive of operations. “In our camps, kids are in…
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Easter Egg Hunt planned at church
Christ Episcopal Church of South Amboy, 220 Main St., will host its Easter Egg Hunt immediately following the 10 a.m. church service March 27. For more information, call 732-721-6262 or email [email protected].
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Lodzinski portrayed as murderer or loving mother
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — On May 24, 1991, five-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Wiltsey was a week shy of graduating kindergarten at St. Mary’s School in South Amboy when he vanished. Last week, almost 25 years later, the trial of his mother, Michelle Lodzinski, now 48, on charges that she “did knowingly or…
