A township resident was recently honored by Citizens Financial Group for 25 years of service. Sushvet Kantesaria’s name was inscribed on a brick that will be installed outside Citizens’ headquarters at One Citizens Plaza, according to a press release from the company. Kantesaria was one of 75 Citizens employees so honored. More than 2,000 colleagues have been honored with bricks since …
Read More »Five Injured In Route 27 Crash
Five people were injured – and two had to be extracted – in a late-night automobile accident Oct. 1 on Route 27. Police said that shortly before 10 p.m., Miguel Salazar-Maediola, 30, of Fort Lee, was driving a 2002 GMC Denali north on Rt. 27 when he attempted to make a left turn onto Village Drive. The Denali was stuck by a 2003 GMC …
Read More »Mezza Luna Brings Italian Food Back To Village Plaza
There’s once again an Italian pizzeria and restaurant in the Village Plaza shopping center on Easton Avenue, with the opening earlier this week of Mezza Luna. Cosimo Correale, the restaurant’s owner, is a veteran of the industry. Correale, who emigrated to the United States from his native Calabria, Italy, when he was 16 years old, has in the ensuing 36 …
Read More »University Shell’s New Owners Seek To Appeal To Somerset Residents
NEW BRUNSWICK – The new owners of University Shell on Easton Avenue want to expand their reach beyond the city’s borders. In an effort to appeal to Franklin auto owners bordering the Hub City, partners Evan Ahmed and Christian Guerrero are offering free auto pickup and delivery to Somerset residents who have service appointments with them. Ahmed and Guerrero officially took …
Read More »Somerset Man Admits To Role In ‘Pay To Stay’ Scheme
A 26-year-old township man was among two who admitted their roles in a “pay to stay” scheme unraveled by a federal sting. Harpreet Sachdeva, 26, of Somerset, and Sanjeev Sukhija, 35, of North Brunswick, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark federal court to separate informations charging them each with one count of conspiracy to commit …
Read More »Hamilton Street Community Policing Office Opened With Ice Cream, Pizza Party
The face of Hamilton Street underwent a subtle change Sept. 23 with the opening of the township police’s Pat Gianotto Memorial Community Policing Center. Located at the corner of Hamilton and Main streets, the office will initially be manned four hours a week – from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays and 4-6 p.m. on Thursdays – by officers Steven Ellmeyer …
Read More »ASL Interpreter Referral Service Celebrates Two Decades In Business
A mother-daughter business that was started in response to an act of discrimination celebrated its 20th anniversary Sept. 23 with a festive gala. ASL Interpreter Referral Service provides sign language interpreters for the deaf, hard-of-hearing and deaf-blind in a variety of settings. The company was founded by Kathy Kady-Hopkins and her mother, Christine Sherwood, and has an office on Clyde …
Read More »Resta’s Celebrates 70 Years With Discounted Gas, Donation To Food Bank
Business was a little extra brisk at Resta’s Car Care on Hamilton Street for about 70 minutes on Sept. 17. That’s because owner Frank Resta was throwing a party. Resta and his employees were celebrating being in business for 70 years. As part of the celebration, Resta was offering regular gasoline at 70 cents a gallon from noon to 1:10 p.m. …
Read More »Crunch Fitness Holds Grand Opening,Latest Offering In Township Gyms
Township residents looking to get fit have another choice with the grand opening of Crunch Fitness in Rutgers Plaza on Easton Avenue. Located in half of the space of a former supermarket – and next to the former Staples space – the new Crucnh franchise takes up about 25,000 square feet, said Eric Wahad, the franchise’s general manager. The grand …
Read More »Township Man Charged With Sex, Computer Crimes In Middlesex County
A 38-year-old township man has been charged with sex crimes and computer theft in two towns. Thomas Canales was arrested at his home on Sept. 1 during an investigation by Detective Bill Coleman of the New Brunswick Police Department, Detective Dominick DeCarlo of the Edison Police Department and Detective Mark Morris of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, according to a …
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