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Disaster Recovery Center being operated at Borough Park
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has set up shop in Milltown in response to last month's nor'easter. And the disaster relief workers are expected to stick around until everyone who suffered damages has had the chance to receive help. More...

Central Elementary School third-graders Michael Meseha (from left), Alana Sackman, Phillip Willis and Kelly Joyce do a "Cotton-Eyed Joe" line dance during Pioneer Day at the East Brunswick school May 4. Students spent the day working at centers set up to focus on farm life, home life and sc... More...

Revitalization to begin with short-term projects

A vision for the future of Jamesburg has taken shape. A team of three graduate students from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University shared suggestions as well as findings they gleaned from working with the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalitio... More...


Borough awaits word on aid for '07 budget with 7-cent tax rate hike

SPOTSWOOD - The municipal tax rate would rise by about 7 cents this year under a budget introduced by the Borough Council, but officials hope to receive state aid to lower that hike. The council will adopt the $8.33 million budget this summer when the state issues its extraordinary... More...


Drowning of man, 47, is third death in river since last July

The South River has claimed its third drowning victim in the past year. Sebastiao Oliveira, 47, of South River, drowned in the river that separates the borough from Sayreville earlier this month. More...


May 17 + Basketball Game Featuring the Harlem Wizards vs. St. Ambrose Faculty and Basketball Coaches, sponsored by St. Ambrose School PTA, Old Bridge, doors open at 6 p.m., in the gym at Carl Sandburg Middle School, Route 516, Old Bridge. Advance tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for stu... More...
The East Brunswick/Spotswood area needs a no-kill animal shelter.Many wonderful, adoptable animals are being euthanized because of the seven-day holding policy. If our shelter was available to the viewing public at least six days a week, including one weekend day, more animals would be adopte... More...
With a scaled-back force of just three full-time police officers, including the chief, it's high time that Helmetta takes a good look at its police department and how it can best serve the borough. Whether that means increasing manpower or turning police coverage over to another town, the iss... More...
William J. Perbetsky Mr. Perbetsky, 71, of North Brunswick, died May 10, 2007, at Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick. born in Coaldale, Pa., he resided in Pennsylvania and Milltown prior to relocating to North Brunswick 43 years ago. He was a chief lineman for Public Servi... More...
Above and at right: Composer Brad Schoener rehearses with fourth- and fifth-grade band students at Appleby School in Spotswood May 8. Through a composer-in-residence grant, Schoener met with the students in January, and he later incorporated the students' original pieces to create a compositi... More...
Say this for the Old Bridge boys track and field team: they certainly know how to make a statement. The Knights thoroughly dominated the competition on Saturday en route to winning their sixth consecutive Greater Middlesex Conference championship, beating second-place South Brunswick ... More...