Month: January 2010

New Jersey Blood Services, New Brunswick, is appealing to the community to donate blood, because the recent storms, coupled with unusually high demands from regional hospitals, have impacted Rh-negative blood supplies, especially type O-negative. Healthy people of all blood types are encouraged to donate immediately, because blood is traditionally in short supply during the winter…

Linwood Middle School, 25 Linwood Place, North Brunswick, is seeking local residents who participated in the Winter Olympics to address students and share their experiences of the event. The school’s Social Studies Department is incorporating the Winter Olympics into its curriculum current events during February. A Career Day for the school’s sixthgraders will be held…

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9111, 11 Henderson Road, Kendall Park, will host a fish fry 6-8 p.m. Jan. 15. Cost is $10, and $5 for age 12 and younger, and includes fish, fries, cole slaw, bread, dessert, coffee or tea. For information, call 732-297-9823.

Middlesex County College (MCC), 2600 Woodbridge Ave., Edison, is presenting two art exhibitions beginning Jan. 21. One will highlight emerging artists from the mid-Atlantic region, and the other features sculpture, shown in a darkened room, illuminated only from the artwork itself. The exhibitions run through Feb. 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. A reception open to…

The North Brunswick Baseball & Softball will hold cosmic bowling at Carolier Lanes off of Route 1 north, North Brunswick, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Jan. 18. The cost is $20 per bowler and includes pizza, soda and bowling shoes. For more information or for an application, email pawsox84@ aol.com.

Mariano Buttitta, a teacher at Linwood Middle School, has been awarded a fellowship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project allows teachers an opportunity to bring back to the classroom a greater understanding of NASA discoveries to inspire the next generation of explorers, scientists, engineers and astronauts. Educators…

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, is open until 9 p.m. for Art After Hours on the first Wednesday of every month. Members of the public are invited to browse on their own or tour the museum’s collections and exhibits with a docent at 7 or 8 p.m. Admission is…

The Middlesex County Public Health Department will sponsor H1N1 vaccination clinics during the next four weeks. Free injectable and nasal vaccinations will be available for persons age 6 months and older. Clinics will be held during January and the beginning of February in East Brunswick, Edison, Monroe and Sayreville. Clinic dates, times and locations are…

South Brunswick Department of Public Works has announced there will be no interruption of service of garbage or recycling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 18. Township offices will be closed, but the contractor will be performing normally scheduled collections. For more information, call Public Works at 732-329-4000, ext. 7260.