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  • Gloria Zastko Realtors proud to honor its own military family

    Gloria Zastko Realtors proud to honor its own military family

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – Gloria Zastko Realtors is proud to honor the family of one of its very own agents, Kyla Mallette. Kyla’s husband, Alvin, has just returned home after being deployed to the Middle East. Stationed with the Air Force in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar, Captain Alvin Mallette arrived home on Jan. 31…

  • The Schoolhouse Songwriter Series begins March 4 in Metuchen

    The Schoolhouse Songwriter Series begins March 4 in Metuchen

    The Metuchen Arts Council will sponsor the first show of the 2017 season of the Schoolhouse Songwriter Series at 8 p.m. on March 4 at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse, 491 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen. Attendees can park on the street or in the Borough Hall parking lot across the street from the Old Franklin Schoolhouse. The…

  • Aberdeen Township offering Cancer Support Group

    Aberdeen Township offering Cancer Support Group

    Aberdeen Township will hold a monthly Cancer Support Group Meeting at the George Hausmann Senior Center, 30 Noble Place, Aberdeen. The meetings, conducted by George Ford, who was trained to conduct support groups by an oncology nurse at Bayshore Community Hospital, will take place from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. For…

  • On Campus

    On Campus

    The following local students were named to the dean’s list at Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland, for the Fall 2016 semester: Christina Napoli, Class of 2019, from Monmouth Junction; Amanda Stankiewicz, Class of 2019, from North Brunswick; and Anna Rose Waniak, Class of 2018, from Kendall Park. In order to qualify for the dean’s list at Loyola, a…

  • Two males charged with various drug offenses

    Two males charged with various drug offenses

      EAST BRUNSWICK – Police lodged drug charges against two adult males following a motor vehicle stop. Ptl. Dennis Chieffo stopped a black 2008 Honda Civic at Route 18 and Cindy Way for careless driving, failure to maintain lane and disregard of a traffic control device around 11:28 p.m. on Jan. 14, according to information…

  • In the service

    In the service

    U.S. Air Force Airman Anthony M. Service graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. Service completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate…

  • Family-to-Family Education program begins March 14

    Family-to-Family Education program begins March 14

    The NAMI NJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Family-to-Family Education program will begin its next free, 12-week session from 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays beginning March 14 at the NAMI NJ Office, 1562 Route 130, North Brunswick. The course is taught by other family members who have received intense training. Instruction and course materials are provided free…

  • Clive Standen steps into Liam Neeson’s familiar ‘Taken’ role in new NBC series

    Clive Standen steps into Liam Neeson’s familiar ‘Taken’ role in new NBC series

    By Jeff Pfeiffer There’s a moment in the first episode of NBC’s new action drama series Taken — beginning Monday, Feb. 27 — that should bring a smile to the faces of fans of the feature-film franchise on which the show is based: One bad guy, marveling at the fighting and shooting techniques of young…

  • ‘Einstein’ will visit Manalapan library on March 11

    ‘Einstein’ will visit Manalapan library on March 11

    MANALAPAN – It has been celebrated with pie eating contests, marathon runs,  birthday parties for Albert Einstein, numerical memory contests and even children’s get-togethers and violin concerts, but at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan, Pi Day will be celebrated with a presentation of Einstein by professional  re-enactor William Agress. Agress will be at…