Piscataway News

An accident on the New Jersey Turnpike northbound near Interchange 9 in East Brunswick has the left lane blocked this morning.

Watch the parade. Fire up the grill. Enjoy the fireworks. "This is a day of celebration," said George Lisicki of Carteret, on the occasion of the United States of America marking her 232nd birthday today.

This is only the second week of the 20th annual Courier News Super Summer Reader Club, but Anuva Goel already has sent in five book reviews - on very diverse subjects.

The township church whose priest resigned four months after sexual misconduct charges against him were dropped now has a new pastor.

Excavation at the Rutgers Stadium expansion in Piscataway has uncovered remains of a tavern from the 1700s and a possible clam bake.

Police believe thieves stole more than a dozen bronze vases from a local cemetery in order to sell the bronze as scrap metal.

BURGLARY, May 28: Police were called to Sturbridge and Sturbridge Drive W. on report of burglaries to two residences.

The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Somerset and Hunterdon counties have completed the landscaping of four homes being built by Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity on Girard Avenue in Franklin.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, June 20: Someone threw numerous pieces of poolside furniture into the swimming pool on Society Hill sometime overnight, police said.

From drivers to businesses, it seems nearly everybody is being affected by higher gas prices.

Just one block from Rutgers University's College Avenue Campus is Lincoln Middle School, the school Lamont Long attends.

The Piscataway Planning Board approved a 331-unit 'transit village' to be located on the Fairway Golf Center site at Stelton and Ethel roads.

Carol M. Stickel has been promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

PISCATAWAY - Martin Kollien, 87, of Piscataway, died Monday at JFK Medical Center in Edison.

Magician and puppeteer Bret Amazzeing may be competing on tonight's episode of "America's Got Talent," but he doesn't have a clue how he got there.

THEFT OF CAR, 5 p.m. May 12: A Piscataway resident told police his 1994 Honda was stolen sometime between 4 and 5 p.m. while it was parked in a parking lot on the 1600 block of Route 22 E. - WARRANT, 8:33 a.m. ...

Mayor Jun Choi denounced the Piscataway transit village plan on Stelton Road, which borders the south Edison residential area and threatens to aggravate the traffic situation near the Edison train station.

Nearly 600 seniors - many with scholarships and academic awards - graduated in commencement exercises Thursday for Piscataway High School.

JORDAN BARRETT BOUND BROOK 100 Senior Barrett starred at the Group I meet, winning the 100 in 10.78 and taking second in the 200 in 22.29, both personal bests.

Perhaps the most significant thing about any production of Neil Simon's 'Lost in Yonkers' is how the events it portrays could come true today.