Middlesex News Archives

By George MattarStaff writergmattar@phillyBurbs.com609-871-8036The New Jersey attorney general has announced $3.2 million in grants for state and county prisoner re-entry programs to help them return to productive lives in their neighborhoods.Anne Milgram made the announcement Friday and said the grants are backed by federal economic recovery funds ...

FIRE, 7:10 p.m. Oct. 22. Police received a 911 call reporting a fire at Daisy Park in the 800 block of Voorhees Avenue.

Nine New Jersey hospitals will begin checking whether babies born in their maternity wards have health insurance and, if not, offer parents the option to cover the newborns under a state plan.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico was charged today by a Middlesex County grand jury with stabbing and beating his New Brunswick roommate to death in July.

The two owners of Jersey Cash 5 jackpot tickets that were sold in Middlesex and Hudson Counties have split the top prize of $74,474 for the Jersey Cash 5 drawing held on Monday, October 26.

Bruce Springsteen sings during the first of his four final concerts at the Spectrum, Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

Gangs of witches, skeletons, ghosts, Power Rangers, ballerinas, football players, princesses and the occasional Barack Obama will be walking Central Jersey streets Saturday and many municipalities have events planned or curfews slated as Halloween approaches.

During nearly a quarter century of leadership under Ron Dobies, the municipality became used to a certain approach to business and personality of its mayor.

The Center for Lifelong Learning is much more than a school. It's also an environmentally friendly facility that can be enjoyed by students and the community alike.

Math Genie, a program that combines ancient Asian instruction methods with modern research to teach young children to mentally perform complex calculations, recently opened its third location: 5001 Hadley Road South Plainfield, just past the Middlesex Mall.

Hundreds of veterans took part in an outreach program to help homeless and disadvantaged veterans get the social services they are entitled to.

Middlesex senior Chris Nardo always wanted to be a striker, but he paid his dues as a defender and central midfielder for the Blue Jays for years.

Middlesex Borough officials want to borrow more than $500,000 to finance part of a road project, along with a laundry list of vehicle and equipment purchases and other items.

The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Watch and a Coastal Flooding Watch for coastal counties in New Jersey as a storm is expected to bring heavy rain starting Thursday night into the weekend.

The purpose of this open letter is to introduce myself to the residents of Middlesex Borough as the Republican candidate for mayor.

Thirteen of New Jersey's 21 counties have dirty air, and the state has five years to clean up its act, the Obama administration said Thursday.

TRENTON - Gov. Jon Corzine is the top donor to 20 of New Jersey's top Democratic county committees, making him the dominant player in a donation system he has criticized.

A second round of tests has confirmed the presence of elevated vapor levels of two chemicals inside a local church preschool, but not in amounts anywhere near enough to shut the facility, the borough's environmental engineering firm has reported.

Sen. Richard Codey's days as president of the state Senate appeared numbered today, with at least 14 Democrats publicly aligning themselves behind Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney of South Jersey.

The Von E. Mauger Middle School on Vail and Fisher Avenue in Middlesex is hosting a clothing drive on October 22, 23 and 24.

During the week of Oct. 5, Keep Middlesex Moving is coordinating local participation in International Walk Our Children to School Day .

The municipality's environmental engineering firm says that a local preschool can continue to operate normally despite the discovery of elevated levels of trichloroethylene vapors within the building.