Author: Greater Media

  • Insurance-enrollment aid coming to library

    The East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, will hold a program titled “In-Person Insurance Enrollment” noon-4 p.m. Nov. 22 for individuals interested in health insurance through the federal marketplace. The event will feature in-person assistance going through the process. Trained experts will answer questions. Those who enrolled in the marketplace last year must…

  • Students to perform ‘Knight of One Acts’

    The Old Bridge High School Department of Speech and Drama will present “A Knight of One Acts” 7 p.m. Nov. 20 in the auditorium at the school’s main building, 4209 Route 516. The performance, under the direction of Jennifer O’Reilly, will include three one-act plays. Tickets cost $5 and will be available at the door.

  • ‘12 Ophelias’

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON “12 Ophelias,” a contemporary look at Shakespeare’s “Ophelia,” will be performed at 8 p.m. Nov. 20-22 and 2 p.m. Nov. 23 at the Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center, 2600 Woodbridge Ave., Edison. Ophelia, played by Casey Chartier-Vignapiano of South River, center, is surrounded by, clockwise from bottom, Catherine Mancheno…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Adam Weisberger (13), who scored the only goal of the match, and his Manalapan High School teammates celebrate their NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV state sectional championship. The Braves beat Monroe Township, 1-0, in the Nov. 13 title game in Manalapan.

  • Many hungry for later school breakfasts

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Many schools offer breakfast programs for students before the school day gets underway, but large percentages of students eligible for free or reduced cost breakfasts are failing to take advantage of the programs. The nonprofit Advocates for the Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) is advocating for a “Breakfast After…

  • Liu-Rudel wins write-in vote for school board

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Joanne Liu-Rudel has won a three-year term on the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education. Monmouth County election officials said Liu-Rudel received 299 write-in votes to win the seat. Three seats on the board were available in the Nov. 4 election, but only two residents, incumbent Debbie Despina Mattos…

  • Message of inclusion at heart of Tyler Clementi Foundation

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer A family photo shows James Clementi and his younger brother, Tyler, as children. Right: James Clementi speaks to students at Monmouth University about his brother’s struggle as a gay college student. COURTESY OF JAMES CLEMENTI Students in Monmouth University’s School of Social Work received an intimate look at the hardships…

  • Salkind, Walsh served towns as suburbia was developing

    By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Two men who were involved in municipal government as their respective communities developed into suburban enclaves died within a month of each other. According to an obituary published in the Nov. 4 edition of the New Jersey Jewish News, Morton Salkind, 82, of Denville, who in the early 1970s served…

  • School officials may consider temporary home in Colts Neck

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — A possible “godsend,” as one school board member described it, for two school districts arose at a recent Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education meeting. At the Nov. 11 meeting, board members discussed the possibility of temporarily conducting a full-day kindergarten program in a Colts Neck school…