Bound Brook News

You can help make this Thanksgiving special for a needy family in your town through an "Adopt-A-Family" program sponsored by the Food Bank Network of Somerset County.

Now two weeks after the death of her brother, David H. Dickinson, former longtime township Chief Executive Officer and Tax Collector Ann Kurtz still was pondering the vicissitudes of life.

One can't say the Rev. Herman Thompson isn't excited about the eighth anniversary celebration for his New Brunswick All-Stars singing group.

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A Bound Brook restaurateur and his brother will be on trial early next year on charges of tax evasion, five years after investigators accused the owner of Cafe Imperial of failing to pay $100,000 in taxes and attempting to cover it up, a judge decided today.

Bound Brook's # 14 Jenny Guerrero and Robbinsville High's # 12 Nicole Piet battle for the ball in the second half of a soccer game played at Robbinsville on Thursday, November 05, 2009.

A second arrest has been made in connection with the shooting of two borough juveniles who were standing on the porch of a Coddington Avenue home on Halloween.

The Borough Council race is still too close to call. There were two three-year Borough Council seats up for grabs in Tuesday's election.

Each Friday, Dayna Camacho feeds the entire school district with 70 to 80 homemade pizza pies at lunchtime.

If you have a hankering for the exotic comforts of Central American cuisine, you might pay a call at the intimate Spice of Life Cafe in Bound Brook.

In a halting voice punctuated with sobs, Arran Christie said "I will never be able to forgive myself'' shortly before he was given a seven-year prison term Friday on a vehicular homicide charge in connection with an accident that claimed his fiance's life.

As the Green Brook Flood Damage Reduction Project nears completion, four candidates are vying for two open Borough Council seats in what could be a flood-free future for the borough.

The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office announced today that new leads have been developed in the beating death of a 16-year-old Franklin Township girl nearly three decades ago.

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It is a legal case that doesn't want to die, though one of the major parties has been dead for more than a decade.

PUBLIC URINATION, Five individuals have been charged with urinating in public. • Nino de Rivera Solano, 43, of Franklin , was charged at 1:58 a.m. Oct.

Twelve people were arrested at the Franklin Township High School homecoming dance on Friday, authorities said.

A dozen people were arrested and five police officers injured following a series of fights that broke out during the annual Franklin High School Homecoming Dance Friday night at the school on Elizabeth Avenue, authorities said.

The following indictments have been handed up by a Somerset County grand jury: Janet Matias, 19, of New Brunswick, indicted on a charge of theft on Aug.

PLEASANTVILLE City Council has moved a step closer to naming a redeveloper for the Narcissus Avenue luxury townhouse development.