Archive for August, 2009

PERTH AMBOY – Police are looking for a man who stabbed a Highland park man outside a New Brunswick Avenue restaurant early Sunday morning. »

ROSELLE – Police arrested an unemployed Linden man who allegedly took a cab to rob the Roselle Savings Bank Monday, authorities said. »

NEW BRUNSWICK – Authorities upgraded the charges against a Rahway man after a motorist who was critically injured in a high-speed crash in March died on Friday. Clifford Cooley, 27, has been charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. According to authorities, Cooley, Brandon Bullock, 25, and David Colvin,... »

PERTH AMBOY – More than 200 people, including family members, fellow police officers and local officials attended a memorial on Saturday for Officer Thomas Raji, who died in the line of duty one year ago. »

RAHWAY – Sts.Mary/Mark R.C. Parish, Rahway, will hold a Memorial Mass for “Servant of God”, Lt. Vincent R. Capodanno, on Friday, Sept. 4, at 7 p.m., according to Fr. Dennis Kaelin, Pastor. »

UNION COUNTY—Police departments, the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), and the Union County Coalition for the Prevention of Substance Abuse (UCCPSA) have come together to spearhead a campaign to reduce underage drinking in Union County. »

EDISON – Postal workers expressed concerns about an efficiency study that could be the first step toward a major consolidation at mail processing plants that would cut the afternoon shift in Edison and potentially close facilities in Whippany and Newark. »

CLARK – A Clark man who was found dead in his truck in the parking lot of a Cellar Avenue apartment complex last week died of natural causes, authorities said. »

Each year, on August 26, we celebrate Women’s Equality Day to pay tribute to those brave suffragists, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells Barnett, who led the struggle for American women to win the most critical tool of democracy—the right to vote. »

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – Both the New Jersey Chapter and the Raritan Valley Group of the Sierra Club showed their support last Thursday for an ordinance that would issue up to $40 million in bonds for open space acquisition in Middlesex County. »

ELIZABETH—St. Mary of the Assumption High School will welcome the classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 next month. Freshman orientation is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 9; all other classes will report to school at 8 a.m. on Sept. 10. For over 80 years, St. Mary of the Assumption High School has... »

RAHWAY—Wizdom Media LLC, an award-winning NYC design studio, recently opened a new location in downtown Rahway. The firm has designed promotional material for some of the Rahway Center Partnership’s downtown events including The Taste of Rahway and Wine and Cheese Party. They recently launched the website for the Broken Hearts Memorial, a project created... »

SOUTH AMBOY—This is from 1901 sent to me by a Woodbridge reader: The material shows the New York and Long Branch Railroad going along the Raritan Bay in South Amboy and the Morgan section of Sayreville. »

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – Five contenders have emerged to replace South Amboy Mayor Jack O’Leary on November’s ballot for a seat in the state Assembly representing the 19th District. Democrats will choose a candidate at a special convention on Sept. 2. »

Aug. 17 at 4:58 p.m. – Det. Alex Yanes arrested Angelo Farrugia, 49, at his Sweet Briar Drive home on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court/motor vehicle violations. He was subsequently released after posting bail. »

WOODBRIDGE – An ongoing, township-wide code enforcement inspection program uncovered an illegal rooming house in a residential neighborhood in Iselin capable of housing 15 or more tenants, Mayor John E. McCormac announced Monday. »

SOUTH AMBOY – A retired Secret Service agent will be sworn in to replace Third Ward Councilman John O’Connell at next month’s city council meeting, according to Mayor John O’Leary, who is also the chairperson of the South Amboy Regular Democratic Organization. »

PERTH AMBOY – Israel Varela has been appointed to the Perth Amboy Board of Education to replace long-time member Raymond Geneske. Varela mounted an unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the school board this April and had previously been a candidate for Perth Amboy’s city council. He owns an auto body shop in the... »

RAHWAY – A fire severely damaged a one-story ranch house on Terrance Street Saturday, displacing the family that lived there according to fire officials. »

EDISON – An Edison man is accused of shaking his 10-week-old daughter to death, according to a criminal complaint filed in Superior Court last week. »