The Quail Brook Senior Center on New Brunswick Road held its annual Chinese New Year party on Feb. 19, aided by performances from the Edison Metro Lions Production company.

A redesigned plan for Catalpa Park – about one-third smaller than the original, controversial plan – was reviewed Feb. 17 by the Open Space Advisory Committee. The current proposed plan eliminates the two softball fields, three soccer fields, four basketball courts, a tot lot and bathroom that comprised the third phase of the original three-phase plan.

A dozen years after it was ended, a program through which township police officers read to children at Pine Grove Manor School has been given new life. The program, Police And Children Engaging in Reading, or PACER, allows elementary school children to see police officers in a different light, said township police Sgt. Sean Hebbon. Hebbon and Officer Nick Gambino were …

Feb. 5 $1,000 worth of plumbing supplies were stolen from a trailer on School House Road.

  A 32-year-old township man has been charged by Middlesex County authorities with the Valentine’s Day murder of a Perth Amboy resident.

Michele Ferrero, patriarch of the international company that bears his name and makes Tic-Tac candies and Nutella hazelnut spread, died in Monte Carlo on Valentine’s Day, according to published reports. His family’s company has its United States’ headquarters on Cottontail Lane in Somerset.

The township’s payroll could grow by eight more positions this year, based on requests made at the Township Council’s second budget hearing on Feb. 12. Department heads presenting their budgets to the council also made requests for trucks, technology and other capital items during the four-hour hearing.

First Bank branches – including the branch at DeMott Lane and New Brunswick Road in Somerset – donated a record amount of time and money in 2014 to the communities that they serve, according to findings released today from the company’s corporate citizenship program. First Bank tracks “corporate giving” to ensure that its philanthropy grows along with its assets, according to …

Township Councilman Ted Chase, (D-Ward 1) and the Middlesex County Sheriff were honored Feb. 11 by the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School on the occasion of Edison’s 168th birthday. Edison’s legacy is celebrated by the school each year on his birthday, according to a press release on the event. The school hosts local and statewide leaders to discuss innovations and technology …