Author: Greater Media

  • Cross culture

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Top: Students from SB Garba dance during the South Brunswick High School’s World Language Department’s International Night showcase on April 14. Above: Students participate in a fashion show of cultural wear.

  • Tricky tray fundraiser to help at-risk children

    Local nonprofit Kicks Are For Kids will hold a tricky tray auction May 1-25. Among the prizes are gift certificates from area restaurants and businesses, Somerset Patriots box-seat tickets, a Keurig 2.0 coffee maker, an automobile backup camera system and more. All items are donated and have values ranging from $10 to over $150. Items…

  • Tiny homes address homelessness

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer South Brunswick resident Sherry Rubel has a vision to help empower homeless citizens in a tight-knit community of tiny homes. After photographing people living in Lakewood’s since-disbanded Tent City — a community of the homeless living in tents and shacks in a wooded area — Rubel has focused her…

  • ‘Algonquin Kid’ recounts years at famed hotel

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Harpo Marx dines with Michael Colby’s grandparents, Ben and Mary Bodne, who owned the Algonquin Hotel. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL COLBY One might say Michael Elihu Colby is the real-life counterpart of Eloise, the fictional children’s book character who lived at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Though the Metuchen resident and…

  • Father’s Day will be extra special for North Brunswick man

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Garrick Stoldt of North Brunswick has been named Father of the Year by the Father’s Day Council of New Jersey. He is pictured, from left, with his daughter Gwendolyn, wife Deborah, son Timothy and daughter Elizabeth. READER-SUBMITTED PHOTO NORTH BRUNSWICK — Balancing his professional life with his personal life has…

  • Incarnation-St. James to celebrate 60 years

    Incarnation-St. James School will celebrate 60 years of Catholic education with a Mass at 12:30 p.m. May 31 at Incarnation Church, 1555 Pennington Road, Ewing. Mass will be followed by a reception in the school auditorium. All alumni, their families, school faculty, past and present staff, and friends of the school who have supported its…

  • Church to host choir, orchestra on May 3

    The Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick Choir and Orchestra will perform a selection of choral works for the public at 4:30 p.m. May 3 at the Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick, 100 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Pieces include compositions from Dietrich Buxtehude, Mozart, Vaughn Williams and more. The suggested donation is $10.

  • Township recognizes students for academics, volunteer work

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Continuing in the tradition of honoring students who excel, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services presented proclamations to students during Township Council meetings in April. Tara Jennings is an eighth-grade student at Linwood Middle School. A member of the National Junior Honor Society, Tara is enrolled in honors geometry, honors…

  • Colts golfers win county tournament

    Rumson-Fair Haven High School’s Reid Bedell chips the ball onto the green on the 12th hole during the Monmouth County Tournament at Charleston Springs Golf Course in Millstone Township April 21. Bedell carded a 74 and tied for sixth. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Rain only delayed the inevitable at the Monmouth County Golf Tournament. Scheduled…