Elmora Youth Little League Captures District Championship

ELIZABETH—The 11-year-olds of the Elmora Troopers team entered the District 7 tournament with high expectations. As 10-year-olds this group of players fell just short of taking the district flag. In 2008, the team rolled through the playoffs with a perfect record but they needed to beat Hoboken Little League to take the championship.

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Lawmakers Look For Green Solutions To High Energy Costs

TRENTON – A weak economy and gas prices holding near the $4 per gallon mark are inspiring state lawmakers to seek ways to promote energy efficiency.
“The energy crisis facing this country and the threat of global warming is an absolute super stimulus to energy efficiency legislation and helping people cope,” said Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex), [...]

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Beating the Heat

Beating the Heat – Children at Linden’s Kiddie Camp play in the sprinkler on a hot summer day.

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Survey: Motorists Alter Budgets, Drive Less, Expect $5 Gas

STATE – Record-high pump prices are forcing motorists to adjust household budgets and alter driving habits while they wait for – and expect – even higher prices in the near future, according to results from a AAA Mid-Atlantic member survey.
In fact, seven in 10 AAA Mid-Atlantic members who completed the e-mail survey in [...]

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Softball Tournament Supports “Lightning Wheels” Athletic Team

RAHWAY – For the past twelve years, the Annual Lehrer-Gibilisco Benefit Softball Tournament for Children’s Specialized Hospital has raised money to support the “Lightning Wheels” Athletic Team. This year, event organizers are pulling out all the stops to make the 13th anniversary the best ever. Playing according to the American Association of Softball and [...]

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Johnson Students Win Bartell Scholarships

Johnson Students Win Bartell Scholarships—Four students achieving high academic standing from Arthur L. Johnson High School were awarded Bartell Scholarships at the high school scholarship awards ceremony on June 2. The winner of the ALJ Entrepreneurial Award in memory of Leslie B. Bartell was Brittany Halpern (center). Winners of the Leslie Bartell Scholarship were [...]

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Jersey Fresh Farmers Market Comes To Edison

EDISON—Mayor Jun Choi announced the establishment of the Edison Farmers Market on Amboy Avenue. The mayor lauded the new market as part of the positive changes he is committed to bringing to the community. This is the first Farmers Market on record in Edison since 1980.
“This is a great quality of life improvement that will [...]

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Fishing Champ

Fishing Champ—Brandon Hodges of Sunnyside Park won the Outdoorsman Award for catching the largest fish in the Linden Public Property and Community Services Award annual fishing derby at Wilson Park. The award is named after George “Butchie” Scoles, a member of the Public Property and Community Services who recently passed away. Scoles was an [...]

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Carteret Expands Summer Recreation Programs

CARTERET—The borough recently kicked off its range of summer recreation programs with its summer concert series, including live performances in both Carteret and Waterfront Parks. The events marked the beginning of what Mayor Daniel J. Reiman has lauded as “a rich and diverse range of summer recreation programs.”
The performances represent the third year that the [...]

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“Hellboy II: The Golden Army” — Signals the March of Time — 2 & ½ popcorns

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic
If you still haven’t had your fill of faux-gothic tales, wherein mystical/and or comic superheroes, attended by volumes of liturgy and lore, serve as models for the eternal fight between good and bad, lightness and darkness, truth and falsehood and whatever else reeks of universal quandary, then “Hellboy II: The [...]

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Giants Foundation Helps Local Football Programs Get Started

By Jim Whelan
The play was called “Phantom” in the New York Giants’ playbook. Eli Manning chucked a prayer and David Tyree came down with a catch that made the Montclair native a household name during Super Bowl XLII. Orange native Jay Alford sacked Tom Brady to seal the Giants third Super Bowl victory. [...]

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Get Ready… Get Set… Go… Woodbridge Township to Host 2008 New Jersey Senior Olympics

by Mayor John McCormac
I am extremely proud to announce that Woodbridge Township has been selected to host and sponsor the 2008 New Jersey Senior Olympics which will be held on Sept. 12, 13 & 14. The Woodbridge Community Center and YMCA will be the central headquarters and main sporting venue for the upcoming senior [...]

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A Troubling Sign For New Jersey’s Economic Future

By Michael M. Shapiro
The New Jersey Policy Research Organization, the think tank of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA), recently released a study of New Jersey’s business climate. The study included a telephone poll of 249 business leaders as well as interviews of 29 New Jersey and out-of-state business and government leaders. It [...]

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Remembering the Past: Memories Of The Area

by Diane Norek Harrison
RAHWAY—Here are some 1980s memories from Rahway resident Derron Palmer:
“I remember buying Italian Ice at Truppa’s on Winfield Street, eating at the Foursome Diner, the summer sidewalk sales and the Fourth of July bicycle races in downtown Rahway. The summer reading programs at the old Rahway Library on St. Georges Avenue, playing [...]

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Remembering the Past: 1920s South Amboy Memories

by Diane Norek Harrison
SOUTH AMBOY—These memories were given to me by former South Amboy resident Adam Kierst and are from the 1920s:
When Adam was in 3rd grade, he would walk to St. Mary’s School on Augusta Street from his Ward Avenue home. He would start on Ward Avenue, go down by the hospital hill, across [...]

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