Bound Brook News

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When it comes to burgers, a new restaurant has choices: 25 choices. Ron Pierson opened 25 Burgers o April 21 at 552 W. Union Ave., where Joey's Grill used to be.

A former Rutgers quarterback has filed suit against a leading video game manufacturer for using his likeness in a football simulation game without his permission.

The Bound Brook Republican Party will be hosting a Town Hall meeting on the 28% Municipal tax increase proposed by the Borough Council.

The English came to the Jacobs home on Walker Avenue in North Edison -- and heavy metal may never be the same again.

The owner of a soil recycling company now has until the end of July to move a giant pile of dirt out of the way of the Green Brook Flood Damage Reduction Project.

Police arrested 20 individuals Thursday in a "reverse sting" operation to catch buyers at a city housing complex that is well-known for drug activity, authorities said.

Seven people in the borough have been arrested as part of a statewide crackdown by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Investigation on gang members and illegal immigrants.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say they arrested 46 reputed gang members and associates as part of a statewide sweep in New Jersey.

UNLAWFUL LODGING, 9:21 p.m. June 3: Police on routine patrol saw someone sleeping in a planter box in front of 73 W. Main St.

More than 70 police officers from around the state were honored yesterday for their vigilance against drunken drivers.

Four men in this country illegally will be deported to Mexico after a judge sentenced them each to time served for a 2008 stabbing of a Howell man.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, 12:56 p.m. June 8: A resident on John Street reported criminal mischief at his residence.

A man who hid in a local laundromat until closing time to search for money - only to find he couldn't escape - was found under a pile of blankets when officers responded to the area because of an alarm he had tripped, authorities said.

FELIX AND OSCAR are played by Joe Vinciguerra and Ed Zuccarelli in Readington Community Theatre's upcoming production.

A new business is preparing to open on Route 22 in the township, a welcome sight in what has been nearly a year of empty store front sightings on the heavily traveled corridor.

Dozens of fire officials demonstrated outside the borough's municipal building last week to protest what they claim was a diversion of their money into the borough's general fund.

In an economy when making it in the real-estate business, let alone covering one's own expenses can be tough, some of Bound Brook's past and present elected officials have found themselves on the municipal tax sale list for owing taxes or other fees to the borough.

Victory gardens are in, thanks to first lady Michelle Obama. Her decision to plant a victory garden at the White House this spring has created a ripple effect reminiscent of when the home-grown garden was made popular during World War I and World War II.