Woodbridge News

Cherry Hill-based Flying Fish Brewing Co. has undertaken an ambitious project of releasing a special beer in honor of turnpike exits, one at a time.

These rugs weren't made for walking on. They're works of fine art, said Linda Rae Coughlin, a Warren resident and co-curator of 'Stripes,' an exhibit of 52 U.S. and Japanese hooked rugs at the Barron Arts Center from today through through Aug.

Miro Consulting's Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO and founder, and Eliot Arlo Colon, president, have been honored as finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award in New Jersey.

Township residents looking to mark Independence Day with a bang ended up with a bust after police confiscated more than a thousand pounds of illegal fireworks before they could be detonated, officials said Tuesday.

One or more burglars made off with laptops, digital cameras and thousands of dollars of other items from a Milton Avenue home while the family's German shepherd was inside, according to a police report.

Township police took two 17-year-old Colonia boys into custody and charged them with criminal mischief and other crimes in a string of car burglaries that began Wednesday night.

A Port Reading man was arrested Wednesday on charges he shoplifted from a Woodbridge Center store and then took a swing at a security guard who tried to stop him, police said.

The Barron Arts Center would like to invite artists to participate in the Second Annual BarronFest to be held on Saturday, October 10th, 2009, at the Parker Press Park, Rahway Avenue, Woodbridge, NJ.

Anuva Goel likes to read a variety of books, but she is particularly found of the Magic Treehouse series.

Prosecutors say a New Jersey woman convicted of killing and dismembering her husband should not get a new trial.

If the voice of God sounds like Mayor John E. McCormac that's because it will be - but for five days only.

Cash, jewelry and electronics were stolen from a Freeman Street home that was reported burglarized Tuesday, police said.

Central Jersey residents will be celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in their usual style with plenty of fireworks, a parade, music, and lots of hot dogs and hamburgers.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Mark Zenobia of On Your Mark Productions will be positively blushing on July 1 when Woodbridge Township hosts its first Run for Pizza, Downtown Woodbridge 4 Mile and Pizza Extravaganza.

Imagine reading the notes you passed around in class four years later? Or figuring out if the 'Vote for Obama' T-shirt you purchased is still relevant? That's exactly why Avenel Middle School's Class of 2009 is stashing away memories in a time capsule.

The hallways of Matthew Jago Elementary School 28 in Sewaren were once painted in the type of drab white and blue colors one might use to coat a cellar wall.

The state Department of Transportation will temporarily close the ramp from Industrial Avenue and Smith Street to the Garden State Parkway southbound in Woodbridge, beginning Friday in order to paint the Conrail Bridge that goes over the ramp.

A cooking instructor at East Jersey State Prison in Avenel charged in May with having sex with an inmate and giving him a cell phone was found dead in a hotel in Newark, authorities said.

Two men face charges for allegedly arranging a drug sale with an Iselin man and then robbing him at the meeting place, police said.

A woman reported the theft of a black suitcase and a brown and cream-colored purse from her Bunns Lane residence Monday.