The Young Professionals of the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its first anniversary Sept. 1 from 5-7 p.m. The event will feature various foods and draft picks. Price is $25 for nonmembers, and free for members. The “Largest Networking Party” will be Sept. 13 from 5-8 p.m. The event will feature foods, drinks, entertainment and networking. Cost is $30 for nonmembers, $25 for members and $35 at the door. The “3rd Thursday Leadership Luncheon” will be Sept. 15 at 11:45 a.m. Guest speaker will be Sheryl Slonim, president and CEO of St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Cost is $55 for nonmembers, and $40 for members. All the above are at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick. For more information, call the Chamber at (732) 821-1700.
The nonprofit Panic Relief Inc. will hold a panic and anxiety program Sept. 7 from 7-8 p.m., and a personal achievement program Sept. 8 from 7-8 p.m. in the North Brunswick and South Brunswick area. There is a fee for either program. For fee or location, call (732) 940-9658.
Middlebrook/New Brunswick Business and Professional Women will hold its business and dinner meeting Sept. 20 from 6-9 p.m. at McAteer’s, Easton Avenue, Somerset. Presented will be a health promotion program, “Sharing Stories — The Breast Cancer Awareness Project” of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Cost is $20. For reservations or more information, call Diane at (732) 246-2389.
North Brunswick resident James F. White was recently selected as administrator of Middlesex County’s Youth Services Department. White is presently superintendent of Middlesex County Youth Detention Center, and replaces John C. Ross, retiring after 31 years with the county. White will be responsible for the overall operation and performance of the center. He has served as its superintendent since May 2000, and prior to that, served in various positions at the juvenile since 1983. White is a graduate of Trenton State College.
The Edison Township Free Public Library, which offers free Internet access, will benefit from a $1.75 million grant being provided by Verizon through Verizon’s Access New Jersey program. The grant will help provide an upgraded broadband network for New Jersey’s Statewide Hub Libraries Network, which will improve high-speed Internet access for the Edison library along with 300 other libraries in the state’s Hub Libraries system. The new infrastructure design will consist of a network that includes two service centers from which technology services such as e-mail, Web site hosting and technical support will be delivered by a team that is on call 24/7. Two separate Internet service providers (ISPs) will serve the network so that if there are problems with one ISP, traffic will automatically be routed to the other.
Java Moon Cafe, 3126 Woodbridge Ave., Edison, has opened its doors to the public following many months of preparation. Owned by Ken Schwartz and Ellen Traberman, the Edison cafe joins six other Java Moon franchises located throughout New Jersey and features menu items that offer healthier dining options. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Sunil Khanna, M.D., has joined Metuchen Cardiology Associates for the practice of internal medicine and invasive and noninvasive cardiology. Khanna has been in practice in the Edison area for the past few years. He is a graduate of The Pingry School, with campuses in Short Hills and Martinsville; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y.; and Albany (N.Y.) Medical College. Khanna completed his internal medicine training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., and his cardiology fellowship at The Heart Hospital of N.J. at Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark. He is affiliated with Beth Israel, JFK Medical Center in Edison, Rahway Hospital in Rahway and Muhlenberg Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa., and expects privileges shortly at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Khanna’s expertise is in general internal medicine, including risk-factor management, stress testing (nuclear and non-nuclear), echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. To our readers Items for Business Briefs may be e-mailed to sentnorth@gmnews.com. They also may be faxed to (732) 780-4192 or mailed to Edison Metuchen Sentinel, P.O. Box 5001, Freehold, NJ 07728.