Author: Greater Media

  • Success continues for boys lacrosse team at Monroe

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent The Monroe Township High School boys lacrosse team has made slow but steady progress ever since the program’s inception in 2007 and can now be considered among the best teams in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC). That progress was punctuated this spring by a 9-6 regular-season victory over perennial GMC kingpin…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The USA Rugby Academy, powered by Serevi, has announced Rutgers Women’s Rugby will host one of the four 2015 High Performance Resident Camps from July 19-23. The Girls & Boys High School camp will identify the region’s top players and provide a specific development pathway to the men’s and women’s U.S. National Teams. Working alongside…

  • Weichert Workforce Mobility acquires Allegiance Relocation Services

    Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of mobile workforce management solutions, announces that it has completed its acquisition of Allegiance Relocation Services, a highly respected GSA Schedule 48 supplier of comprehensive relocation management, move management and property management services. For Weichert, this acquisition represents a new and exciting customer segment that…

  • 1970s Fashion: Rock goes soft, disco finds a beat and punk trashes everything

    By Ali Datko, ReMIND Magazine Disco fashion rules in “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). By the ’70s, most fashion-related stigmas of the past had been overturned, clearing the way for even more experimentation and expression. This attitude ironically characterizes the three primary fashion subcultures of the ’70s, which are all strikingly different. The hippie look, continued…

  • Devious Maids

    “Devious Maids” returns to Lifetime PHOTO BY STUART PETTICAN Copyright 2015 Lifetime’s hit series, “Devious Maids,” will return for a third season on Monday, June 1 at 9 p.m. The series is set in a world where murder and mayhem collide in the mansions of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families. Season three picks…

  • Fine arts festival, farmers market slated for June 6

    EAST BRUNSWICK — The East Brunswick Arts Commission and the Fine Arts Festival Committee, in partnership with the Department of Recreation and Parks, will host the 13th annual Fine Arts Festival & Farmers Market on June 6. The event will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. around the pond at the East Brunswick Municipal Complex on…

  • Open-bounce event supports mission trip

    The Jumping Jungle, 10 Alvin Court, Suite 100, East Brunswick, will host an openbounce fundraiser 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 12. Proceeds will benefit Danielle Hauer, a Jumping Jungle employee who has been chosen as a Presbyterian Mission Agency volunteer and will be leaving for Little Rock, Arkansas, in August for a yearlong mission trip to help…

  • Chapel yard sale benefits food bank

    The Spotswood Chapel, 73 Devoe Ave., Spotswood, will hold its annual Huge Yard Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 30. All proceeds from sales will be donated to the Spotswood C.U.P. (Churches United for People) Food Pantry, Main Street. The Chapel will offer free hot dogs and soda 11 a.m. to noon. For more information, call…

  • Grants awarded to animal-rescue groups

    SHREWSBURY — The Purr’n Pooch Foundation for Animals recently awarded over $25,000 to six nonprofit animal-rescue and rehabilitation organizations. Since 2010, the foundation has awarded over $150,000 in financial and in-kind donations of pet supplies and food to nonprofit, no-kill animal rescue and welfare organizations. Recipients of the grants include All Critters Rescue in Spotswood;…