Author: Greater Media

  • Beekeepers find sweet success in N.J.

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer From the Garden owner Drew Madzin endures the August heat to check on one of his honeybee hives. In a healthy colony, worker bees like the one pictured below can number in the tens of thousands and all of them are female. PHOTOS BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Standing among…

  • Local priest appointed Canon of Polish Basilica

    A local priest has been appointed Canon of the Basilica of St. Florian in Poland. Fr. Robert Lynam, pastor of St. Augustine of Canterbury Church in Kendall Park, was conferred in respect for the dedication and honor to the life and efforts of St. John Paul II. On May 17, Cardinal Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, Bishop…

  • Halal Fest

    Cloxkwise from top left: Abid Khan of Lawrenceville chows down on grilled corn on the cob during the Muslim Youth Community Center’s fourth annual Original Halal Food Festival that was held at Rowland Park in South Brunswick on Aug. 15. Samia Ashraf of Edison looks at some Middle Eastern dresses. Aman Ali, left, the festival…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Rachel Anderson of North Brunswick has been named to the dean’s list at the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) for the spring 2015 semester. UMF maintains a dean’s list each semester for those students completing a minimum of 12 credits in courses producing quality points. Students whose GPA for the semester is equal to…

  • New strawberry is centerpiece of Garden Field Day

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer The new Rutgers Scarlet strawberry was a main attraction at the EARTH Center’s Garden Field Day on Aug. 15. PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER NITZCHE Classic rock and the aroma of hamburgers hung in the air, welcoming farmers and gardening enthusiasts to the EARTH Center for a Garden Field Day…

  • Preschool classes begin in September

    The North Brunswick Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services will begin its fall preschool classes next month at Sabella Park Preschool, 1453 Cozzens Lane, North Brunswick. Partners at Play is a one-hour play group for 2-year-olds that provides instructorguided time for songs, art, expression and free play. Parents must be present during class. Partners…

  • NAMI to host training session for volunteers

    NAMI-NJ (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) will hold a support group facilitator training session 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Aug. 29 at NAMI NJ, 1562 Route 130 north, North Brunswick. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. The training is primarily for people who are dealing with their own mental health issues who wish to volunteer to help…

  • Raritan Poets to meet monthly at library

    The Raritan Poets, a reading group and workshop since 1994, will meet the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the East Brunswick Library, 1 Civic Center Drive. All ages are welcome. Bring 10 copies of the reading sample.

  • Ceremony to mark attacks of Sept. 11

    North Brunswick Township will mark the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with a ceremony at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Sept. 11 Memorial Park Monument, across from the Municipal Building at 710 Hermann Road.