Laurence Harbor News

The Old Bridge Public Library will resume its summer hours for the months of July and August.

Dripping with mussels and sea anemones, the newly recovered anchor from the Stolt Dagali shipwreck was added to the state's largest collection of recovered artifacts when it was hoisted into the front yard at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History this morning.

For nearly 45 years recreational divers explored the sunken stern section of the Norweigian tanker Stolt Dagali, lost in a collision in 1964, but only divers Steve and Maureen Langevin of Laurence Harbor knew about the anchor tucked under the starboard side of the wreck.

Tests on mussels, clams and foraging fish near the Laurence Harbor Sea Wall in Old Bridge, have revealed high levels of lead, the Environmental Protection Agency reported today.

The NY/NJ Baykeeper and Bayshore Regional Watershed Council will hold a public meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11 at 70 West Front St.

Police said a weekend softball game got out of hand at Butler Park on Sunday, leading to the arrest of six people as officers broke up a fight.

Mussels, clams and bait fish caught near the Laurence Harbor Seawall in Raritan Bay have shown high levels of lead in recent tests, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency said during a presentation to the Old Bridge Environmental Commission.

A 42-year-old Old Bridge man was killed this afternoon when his motorcycle was struck by a turning vehicle.

THE TOWNSHIP'S ANNUAL Salt Water Day celebration has been scheduled for 3 p.m. to dusk Saturday, Aug.

A town resident hopes his 500-yard-long, 20-inch-wide drawing of a brick road is enough to qualify him as the world-record holding doodler.

Edward and Lorraine Doyle of Matawan celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary at their daughter's home in Holmdel.

War is hell. Sometimes coming home from war is not a picnic, either. That was the message about a hundred veterans and families of active servicemen and women heard Wednesday evening during Woodbridge's Support Our Troops rally held at the war memorial on George Frederick Plaza.

Gospel, folk and classical music will fill the air during the annual Music Fest celebration and fundraiser, featuring musicians from a dozen Monmouth County houses of worship, at 7 p.m. May 16 at St.

An elderly borough woman died and her son was injured Sunday night after a fire broke out at their home on Buchanan Avenue, police said.

In March, I began reading about lead slag contamination encompassing parts of the Old Bridge-Sayreville and Laurence Harbor waterfront.

In a continued effort to protect the health of people who enjoy the beaches in several New Jersey neighborhoods, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add shoreline sections of Old Bridge Township and Sayreville to the Superfund National Priorities List .

Plans are in the making for a new bike/pedestrian pathway that eventually will link parks and open spaces in the township.

Four men from New Brunswick and Plainfield who went fishing south of the Morgan Bridge had to be fished from the high tide waters early Friday when one began drifting in an inflatable raft, while three others became stranded on a jetty.

The Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down 1.3 square miles, much of it along Raritan Bay, in Old Bridge and Sayreville because dangerous levels of lead were found in the soil.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has called for closing three sites along Raritan Bay because of high lead levels.