CARTERET — Mayor Daniel J. Reiman executed a redevelopment agreement on Monday, Dec. 2, with the Hampshire Investment Group, who will turn the abandoned 33 acre Ball Glass industrial property at 50 Bryla Street into a state of the art industrial complex.
KEASBEY – Mainetti, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of garment hangers, has relocated its United States headquarters to 110,000 square feet at 300 Mac Lane in Keasbey, announced Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The company relocated to its new space from Secaucus in an expansion move.
EAST BRUNSWICK – “A Christmas Carol” returns to Playhouse 22, East Brunswick’s Community Theater, for its annual production starting Dec. 13. “A Christmas Carol” is directed and adapted by Tony Adase, based on the novella written by Charles Dickens. The show runs through Dec. 22.
FORDS – The Social Concerns Committee & Student Council Officers of the eighth grade class at Our Lady of Peace School’s in Fords assist in making Christmas goodie gags for the residents of St. Joseph’s Seniors Home in Woodbridge, which is operated by the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
TRENTON – For about the next month, more than 400 law enforcement agencies will be patrolling the state’s roads looking for drunk and impaired drivers as part of the annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” holiday campaign, which runs from Dec. 6 to Jan. 2.
NEW BRUNSWICK — Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball and author of Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked will be this year’s featured speaker at Rutgers University’s Louis J. Gambaccini Civic Engagement Series: Toward Better Citizenship.
NEWARK – The State Division of Consumer Affairs and Division of Law within the Office of the Attorney General have filed suit against a company that allegedly took thousands of dollars in deposits and payments from individual consumers and then, among other things, failed to provide consumers with contracted-for home furniture and furnishings or delivered damaged or non-conforming home furniture and furnishings.
(via NJ Spotlight) In a dispute that could affect electricity customers and air quality, the state is intervening on the behalf of a power plant involved in a row with Public Service Electric & Gas about how much the utility charges for natural gas to operate the unit.
(via NJ Spotlight) Almost a year to the day after initiating the development of a university-wide strategic plan to steer Rutgers University through its next five years and beyond, President Robert Barchi presented a final draft of the plan to the school’s Board of Governors yesterday.
CARTERET — The Carteret Police Department’s Crime Prevention Unit will hold this month’s Neighborhood Watch Program meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at the Community Center Hall/Library Building, 100 Cooke Avenue, Carteret.
