Middlesex News

A Senate committee is expected to vote today on a plan to finance open space purchases.

EDISON - The message from Joann La Perla-Morales, the president of Middlesex County College, was clear: No matter where they started, the scores of soon-to-be graduates who were seated before her ended up in the same place.

After a month in a hospital burn unit where it was uncertain if she would survive, Terri Thompson is home, but still hurting.

While some Democratic Party officials are beginning to warm to the idea of Hudson County Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell as the next state party chairman, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver of Essex County is not one of them.

The state Senate passed 10 bills aimed at curbing gun violence Monday, but neither the Senate president's centerpiece background check legislation nor the Assembly Democrats' bill limiting magazine capacity were among them.

Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Connie Wagner, Timothy Eustace and Wayne DeAngelo to require any employer relocating a call center from New Jersey to a foreign country to notify the state and remit the unamortized value of any state grant, guaranteed loan, tax benefit and other financial support was released Monday by an Assembly panel.

It costs $510 less on average to get a colonoscopy in Middlesex County than it does in Mercer County.

Douglas Wilson of Old Bridge, a longtime member of the Middlesex County College Alumni Association Board of Trustees, has been named Alumnus of the Year for Service to the College and the Association.

Pictured above is the 1917 Union Township Police Force. Chief Charles Hopkins in the chair.

Department of Education investigators visited Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School yesterday.

Thirty-two electricians and plumbers ended a four- to five-year quest when they graduated May 1 from the apprentice program of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools.

Assemblyman John Wisniewski in this file photo. Wisniewski announced today that he will not seek re-election as state Democratic chairman.

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Suburban News during the week of April 29 to May 3, 2013.

By Laura Waters [Laura Waters has been president of the Lawrence Township School Board in Mercer County for eight years.

The Five-Time Atlantic League Champion Somerset Patriots will host special nights to recognize the Hunterdon, Union, Middlesex, and Somerset County schools' Teachers of the Year.

Legislation Assembly Democrats Daniel R. Benson, Upendra Chivukula, Pamela R. Lampitt and Tim Eustace sponsored to enable facilities that provide comprehensive services to children with limited life expectancy or complex illnesses and give support to their families was released Monday by an Assembly panel.

Middlesex County Posecutor Bruce Kaplan, seen here in a file photo, will resign from his post effective Monday and take a position within the state Division of Criminal Justice, under the umbrella of the state Attorney General's Office NEW BRUNSWICK - Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan will resign, effective Monday, to take a position with ... (more)

EDISON - Peter Barnes Jr., chairman of the powerful Middlesex County Democratic Organization, said today that he will not seek another two-year term and will support Kevin McCabe, a former state labor commissioner, for the post.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation announced Thursday that Route 27 will be resurfaced in both directions from the vicinity of Sanford Street to the vicinity of Parillo Drive along a three mile stretch where the highway borders Franklin Township in Somerset County to the north and North Brunswick in Middlesex County to the south.

The Martinsville Community Center is holding a Spring Music Festival as a fundraiser for the organization.