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Board of Education members recently wrapped up interviews with four candidates during their search to fill the soon-to-be vacant superintendent position.

With the stroke of the governor's pen this week, the Helmetta school district was eliminated, one of 13 districts in the state absorbed by a neighboring district.

The Board of Education's plan to hire a new school superintendent by Nov. 1 is still on track, school officials said.

A consent search of the vehicle produced a plastic bag with suspected marijuana residue inside.

While more than 100 police officers, firefighters and volunteers scoured Jamesburg and Monroe yesterday for a missing 9-year old-boy, the child was hunkered down behind bushes about a quarter-mile from home.

Larry Husbands, s longtime resident of Middlesex Borough, was one of many property owners in the county who came out recently to inspect proposed flood-plain map drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency .

Janet and Charles Neely ran a thriving tax-preparation business on Route 18 in East Brunswick, treating customers like friends and easily winning their trust and loyalty.

Six Middlesex County areas and one Hunterdon County township are participating in a state gypsy moth aerial suppression program that will commence next month, according to the state Department of Agriculture.

Roosevelt fourth-grader Lindsey Diamant of South Plainfield has been named the winner of the annual statewide "What New Jersey Means To Me" essay contest sponsored by state senator Barbara Buono.

Ed Ledner, a retired engineer in East Brunswick, finds inspiration for his handcrafted silver and copper jewelry at night sketching in a marbled composition book.

Allan Feinberg of Highland Park isn't your typical coin collector. He's interested in a coin's transformative potential rather than in its numismatic value.

As far as driving schools go, the Garden State Driving School is a lifer. They have been around since 1978 -- that's 31 years of showing folks the rules of the road.

Authorities tonight were still trying to determine the identity of a man who died in a fire at a Helmetta home, but neighbors suspected the victim was the elderly homeowner.

With parents, teachers and classmates all watching silently in anticipation, Shalin Modi, 11, shook off his expected jitters and confidently won Sayreville Middle School's first-ever Sixth Grade Spelling Bee.

Florence Mancino wants her young grandchildren - 8, 6, and 2 years old - to look up to their hard-working father Peter, a manager at the family's pizzeria in South Plainfield.

A Helmetta man, accused of carrying heroin and trying to run over a Jamesburg police officer who attempted to stop the car he was driving, is being sought by authorities.

An Irvington woman faces charges after police say she led them on a high-speed chase through four municipalities with her one-month-old child in the car.

Goal-setting is the cornerstone to any good running program. There's no chance of making strides in running unless you have a finish line to aim at and a plan for getting there.

Two Middlesex County men face drug charges after they were found with 44 packets of suspected heroin last week, police said.