Milltown News

When Santiago Espinal was living in the Dominican Republic, he was a rice farmer.

'NAME the ORANGE TRAIL' walk in Tamarack Hollow, East Brunswick, December 19th A local environmental group will be leading a walk on the Nature Trail on a piece of property which Middlesex County and the Township of East Brunswick have worked to preserve, the Tamarack Hollow Open Space preserve.

Jim Giamarese leaned against one of the front doors of his farm's store, looked outside, saw a couple looking for a tree, and said, "There's no way business will be heavy today, not with these winds - but tomorrow will be different." Giamarese and other tree-farm owners are ready for perhaps the busiest Christmas tree-buying days of the season.

An environmental musician will be featured at the December meeting of the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership, a Middlesex County enviromental stewardship group on Tuesday, December 15th, 2008, 7:30PM, at Milltown Senior Center, located at 60 Violet Terrace in Milltown, NJ.

The Ladies Auxiliary Post No, 2319 was awarded first place in the District No. 8 Buddy Poppy Display Contest for 2009.

That jingling noise you might hear has nothing to do with the holiday season. Rather, it's the sound that marks the start of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, or CINJ, Foundation's annual 'Quarters for the Cure' campaign, which involves students from around the state collecting pocket change to help support programs at the New Brunswick-based ...

Five police departments in Middlesex County will upgrade the way they take fingerprints.

Here are the stories we are working to bring you this weekend in the Home News Tribune and Courier News: In the Home News Tribune A Monroe resident has just been reunited with the Polish man who provided him and his sister safe harbor from the Nazis during World War II.

Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Freeholder Mildred S. Scott announced plans to purchase electronic fingerprint-recording and verification equipment for five police departments in the county.

Our Lady of Lourdes School, 44 Cleveland Ave., Milltown, will host a 'Christmas Festival' on Saturday, Dec.

Ever since childhood, "Captain'' John Paitakis has been an avid comic book fan. Now he has turned that passion into a business.

If you ask Mary Kazimir the secret to her longevity, she'll tell you without hesitation in two words - hard work.

On Sunday, Nov. 22, hundreds of volunteers will come to the Jewish Federation of Middlesex County office here hoping to replicate what they achieved last year.

A former Woodbridge police officer was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy a decade ago and taking lurid photos of a 15-year-old girl.

I would like to thank the voters of the 17th Legislative District - Milltown, North Brunswick, New Brunswick, Highland Park, Piscataway, and Franklin - for your support and confidence you have placed in me.

Raymond Reininger's life changed a little more than five years ago. That's when the borough resident discovered the art of poetry.

An incident early this week was described by police as one of the weirdest, most complicated road-rage incidents they've encountered.

State Assemblyman Samuel D. Thompson, D-13th, called the election of Chris Christie as governor "a major change in direction" for a state Legislature where Democrats have enjoyed majorities in both houses along with Democratic governors going back to the days of Gov.

A two-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County has left several injured, authorities said, with one suffering life-threatening injuries.

A vote for Daggett is a vote for Corzine. If you want to give Jon Corzine another four years to finish off New Jersey's middle class, then by all means vote for Daggett.