Hopeful entrepreneurs across the country are finding that opening a new business on crumbling Main Streets is not the American Dream they had hoped for when struggling through college, or saving pennies working in unfulfilling careers, only to end up with an empty store front and a pile of debt one year later. This must mean that Lisa Molinari, an Emmy award-winning television producer, must be crazy to open a sports center for dogs in this economy, right? Well, Molinari is hoping that through community outreach and flexible schedules, her unique startup, Healthy Bones Sports Center For Dogs…

Rich Russo is upset. As he winds through small aisles formed by boxes piled high among the rooms in his three-story Cranford home, he recounts what he lost in the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Irene. "I had the complete set of Rolling Stone magazines since 1967," Russo says, "a collection my dad started in 1967, when I was born. Every Playboy from the same year too." "The collection is valued at more than $50,000," he says simply as he describes how the iconic titles sloshed around in the brick-walled basement of the circa-1894 home to become a saturated chronicle of sex, drugs and rock 'n…

True love knows no obstacles. So after dealing with an earthquake, a hurricane and a looming deployment for an undisclosed installation, a Navy man and his beloved went to the corridors of power in Fanwood to help them tie the knot before he was shipped off to war. Andrew Laffey, of Martinsville, and Melissa Picchietti, of Chicago, Ill., had planned to obtain a marriage waiver at the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth. The document would allow Picchietti and Laffey, a fire controlman third-class Petty Officer assigned to the USS San Jacinto, to bypass the traditional 72-hour waiting period …