Author: Greater Media

  • Players of vintage baseball seek to revive Middlesex County club

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer The Elizabeth Resolutes take on the Brooklyn Atlantics in old-fashioned garb. The vintage baseball teams play by the 19th-century rules of the teams they are emulating. The game has changed a lot since those days, when players didn’t wear mitts and the diamond was set up in a grass…

  • Venokur develops strong ethic behind the plate

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Ashli Venokur It says a lot about what’s most important to Ashli Venokur that the highlight of the East Brunswick High School catcher’s life was volunteering to help at the Special Olympics a year ago. Venokur, a rising senior, recalled last summer how she helped during the softball portion of the…

  • East Brunswick library gives glimpse of global languages

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer An East Brunswick Public Library patron works with the Pronunciator program, part of the library’s Global Connection program, which offers members the chance to learn up to 80 foreign languages. MICHAEL NUNES/STAFF EAST BRUNSWICK — The East Brunswick Public Library is taking steps to bridge the gap in the township’s…

  • Critics: Flood zone rule changes would do harm

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Critics of revised rules governing projects in flood-prone areas say the changes proposed by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) would weaken flood protections throughout the state. “My understanding is that changes will include removing environmental protections, allow property owners to build in vulnerable areas and…

  • Prized possession

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Jason Eiger of East Brunswick decides which prize he wants at the annual St. Stan’s Carnival at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Sayreville on June 26.

  • Jody Joseph Band to open concert series

    The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission’s Music in the Park Summer Concert Series will begin with a performance by the Jody Joseph Rock Band 6 p.m. July 9 in the open-grove gazebo on the lake at Thompson Park, Monroe. Admission is free of charge. The remaining schedule is as follows:  July 16 — The…

  • Verdi and Puccini to be topics of talk

    The Brandeis National Committee will offer a program titled “Verdi and Puccini: Masters of Music and Passion” 1 p.m. July 17 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Guest presenter will be Robert W. Butts, conductor and lecturer. The event is funded by the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council…

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    MARK ROSMAN/STAFF Sign of the season at the Quaker Inn, Ocean Grove, on a beautiful and busy June 28.

  • Battles over women’s health continue

    I write this letter because June is the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. In this historic decision, the court ruled that a state’s ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy. As I have been married for 50 years, I understand how this decision proved…