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  • Tickets available for Designer Bag Bingo

    Tickets available for Designer Bag Bingo

    Spotswood High School Senior Week will host its fundraising Designer Bag Bingo Feb. 3 at the high school, Summerhill Road. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Calling will begin at 7 p.m. Advance-sale tickets cost $25 and are available through Jan. 25. Price includes admission and three boards/bingo game for 10 bingo games and a…

  • Sunday concerts planned at Music Center

    Sunday concerts planned at Music Center

    The Imperial Music Center, 48 Appleby Ave., South River, will resume its Sunday Concert series 2 p.m. Feb. 5. Subsequent concerts are set for 2 p.m. March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 3, Oct. 1, Nov. 5 and Dec. 10. A light lunch is available for purchase noon-2…

  • High school band sets Jan. 21 clothing drive

    High school band sets Jan. 21 clothing drive

    The Sayreville War Memorial High School Marching Band will hold a clothing drive 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 21 in the parking lot at the high school, Washington Road. Items sought include mixed clothing of all sizes for all ages, shoes, sandals, sneakers, boots, construction boots, work gear, jackets, coats, rain gear, belts, ties, bedspreads, blankets,…

  • High school to hold historical presentation on Roosevelt

    High school to hold historical presentation on Roosevelt

    Bishop George Ahr High School will serve as the host to the first-person interpretation program, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Arsenal For Democracy,” portrayed by Neill Hartley, at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 in the school’s Little Theater, located at 1 Tingley Lane, Edison. The presentation is part of the school’s 2016-2017 Speaker Series focused on the social…

  • Idina Menzel headlines Lifetime’s remake of the ultimate chick flick ‘Beaches’

    Idina Menzel headlines Lifetime’s remake of the ultimate chick flick ‘Beaches’

    By Lori Acken Call them the wind beneath the wings of a new generation. On Saturday, Jan. 21, Idina Menzel of Glee and Frozen fame and House of Lies‘ Nia Long step into the roles Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey made iconic in Beaches, 1988’s Oscar-nominated ode to female friendship, which gets a modern reboot…

  • We are Boston

    We are Boston

    By Paul Hall The people of Boston celebrate Patriots Day annually. The celebration includes the running of the Boston Marathon and unites this great American city. But on Monday, April 15, 2013, this day would take on a whole new meaning as bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon. Patriots Day, by director…

  • Freehold Borough man pleads guilty in death of girlfriend

    Freehold Borough man pleads guilty in death of girlfriend

    A Freehold Borough man has pleaded guilty to first degree aggravated manslaughter in the 2014 strangulation death of his pregnant girlfriend, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Sender Neftali Villatoro-Reyes, 27, pleaded guilty on Jan. 13 to first degree aggravated manslaughter. Villatoro-Reyes entered his guilty plea before state Superior Court Judge Richard W. English,…

  • VFW to hold Valentine’s Day Gala

    VFW to hold Valentine’s Day Gala

    VFW Post 9111 will host a Valentine’s Day Gala on Feb. 11 at the VFW, 11 Henderson Road, Monmouth Junction. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Dinner begins at 7 p.m., which includes a choice of venison stew, chicken or penne vodka, salad, dessert and coffee. There will be beer and wine. The cost is $25…

  • YouTube comedian to present baseball comedy show

    YouTube comedian to present baseball comedy show

    The South Brunswick High School Diamond Club will present a night of baseball comedy with YouTube celebrity Domingo Ayala on March 18 at Crossroads South Middle School, 195 Major Rd., Monmouth Junction. A tricky tray will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the show at 7 p.m. Pictures and autographs with Ayala will follow. Proceeds will…