Metuchen News

A Vermont man faces charges after police say he broke into a house occupied by an off-duty New Jersey officer, who subdued him.

Periods of high unemployment tend to be particularly hard on teenagers, who wind up competing for jobs with more experienced, laid-off adults.

Principal John Novak fought hard to keep his emotions at bay during last week's high school graduation ceremony.

Maria Fonseca was out of a job for eight months. "When you lose a job and you are out of work for a long time, you feel your skills are not good enough or maybe you are not doing the right thing,'' Fonseca said.

'Can I please go on the slide again,' 8-year-old Yasmine Baiod asked, trying to coax her mother, Leila, as they spent a sunny day at the Metuchen muncipal pool on Thursday.

The following local students attending Bucknell University received dean's list status for the spring semester.

TUCKERTON - People are so used to being rained on these days, that nothing stopped them from traveling to the Tuckerton Seaport Saturday for the annual Seafood and Music Festival.

Members of the Edison branch YMCA can look forward to exchange programs with fellow members at a YMCA in Mumbai, India - thanks to a recently-forged international partnership with the Bombay YMCA.

About 70 educators gathered at Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's first conference on synagogue education, held June 10.

This summer, the Young Adult Department of the Metuchen Public Library will offer a wide array of free programs for Metuchen teens entering grades six to 12.

PARSIPPANY: A Woodbridge man lost control of his car, flipping it three times as he tried taking an exit off of Route 10 on Friday but walked away from the accident unscathed, police said.

There is much speculation that State Sens. Barbara Buono and Loretta Weinberg could wind up as Gov.

The National Education Network and the Metuchen Edison Area Branch of the NAACP will hold Juneteenth NJ 2009, its fifth annual cultural heritage celebration 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11 in the auditorium of the Edison Corps Academy.

Police apprehended a man Tuesday morning on Route 18 south after a bank robbery in Metuchen set off a chase through at least two other towns, police and witnesses said.

Police arrested a Middlesex County man who they say broke into a Gibson Drive home last week.

THE DIOCESE OF Metuchen St. Thomas More Society will host its fourth annual dinner at Pierre's on Thursday, June 18 at 6 p.m. Dr.

Customers of Elizabethtown Gas Company are about to see a savings on their bills.

A Junebug is defined as a stout beetle with a large head. "I was trying to think of a name that would be real zingy," said Linda Vonderschmidt-LaStella, who came up with the name for the every Friday in June arts festival in the borough that starts Friday, June 5 with the unveiling of a 6-foot sculpture of a Junebug.

When two wheels aren't enough and four are too many, New Brunswick police have an alternative for getting around the city's streets.

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