Metuchen News

Nicholas G. Gussis, 26, has been made the featured fugitive on the Hunterdon's Most Wanted web page on the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office's site.

Sandy-impacted families are getting back in their homes thanks to a partnership between Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, and the Mennonite Disaster Service.

METUCHEN - There's nothing some pet parents won't do for their furry friends, especially when it comes to their health - from refinancing a home mortgage to dipping into a wedding fund.

A social studies teacher who founded a nonprofit which started as a club at Metuchen High School dedicated to freeing child slaves has been named the National Education Association Reg Weaver Human and Civil Rights Award winner.

Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen and the Mennonite Disaster Service have partnered to repair and restore homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Shawn Breen and Kelly Murolo, both 34, were arrested Monday, allegedly after police saw them leave the scene of their 11th known burglary, authorities said in a news release today.

High Bridge resident Anthony DeCanto, Jr., owner of DeCantoaA A s Best, with Debbie Godt, Unity Bank Vice President/SBA Business Development Executive.

Together, they are conducting research at both campuses on p21 Activated Kinase 2 , which has been shown to be an important regulator in cancer cells.

St. Joe's Wade Baldwin tries to dribble around Colonia's Jordell Thompson in the second quarter as St. Joseph plays Colonia in 2014 GMC boys basketball semifinal at South Brunswick High School.

The students, faculty and staff of Saint Augustine School in Kendall Park are not fretting over the cold winter days, but rather resonating through helping hands and warm hearts! During Catholic Schools Week, St. A's dedicated a lunch day which offered soup only as one's meal.

METUCHEN - For one evening last month the library at Campbell Elementary School was transformed into a museum where the fourth-graders and their families shared in a "Night at the Museum."

I yawn at most of the Winter Olympics. I get furious at the law-breaking, lazy, losers who refuse to clean the snow off their vehicles before driving.

One of the hallmarks of Catholic education is service to others. So it is fitting that the honorees at the 2014 Students-to-Leaders Catholic Education Dinner are the schools' first models of service to community -- the 26 religious teaching orders in the Diocese of Metuchen.

This psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening.

Have you traveled on Bridge Street in Metuchen lately? How about North Bridge Street in Somerville, Somerset Street or Route 22 in North Plainfield or Hoes Lane in Piscataway? All of those roads and many more this winter are pockmarked with potholes, forcing drivers to swerve to avoid the craters or striking them with the hope that damage to ... (more)

Members of the Metuchen Police Department salute in this Star-Ledger file photo.

The Girls Leadership Institute will hold workshops for girls from second to fifth grades and their parents at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse on Middlesex Avenue.

The road salt shortage may have been a crisis for municipalities and commuters, but it was fun and games for this teen with a pair of ice skates.

Many New Jersey students hit the books this Presidents Day on what is typically a school holiday, as districts are attempting to make up for an abundance of snow days.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a few people sat quietly among the pews of Somerset Baptist Church in the Somerset section of Franklin, while others busied themselves resolving a problem positioning PowerPoint images squarely on a large screen.