Author: JENNIFER AMATO
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Gracie’s House expands to offer women recovery options
NORTH BRUNSWICK – When Antonia Maria Montalvo was recovering from addiction, she was not allowed at her sister’s home for a year. She said she butted heads with her brother-in-law, who focused on accountability and integrity, because she “couldn’t stand anyone who got in my way.” “It takes time. There was a lot of destruction,”…
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Friends hold wiffle ball tournament to remember East Brunswick High School baseball player
EAST BRUNSWICK – On Feb. 22, 2015, Patrick Awosogba, a School of Arts & Sciences student at Rutgers University, passed away playing in a pickup basketball game at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. Awosogba, a freshman, had a rare heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, where the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick, causing an arrhythmia or…
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EARTH Center holds Garden and Music Festival
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Plant one plant – feed many. The Rows for the Hungry Experimental Garden on the grounds of the EARTH Center inside Davidson’s Mill Pond Park lives and grows by that motto, as the demo garden and teaching area plants produce that is donated to MCFOODS (Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services)…