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  • Volunteers needed to shop, cook for the elderly

    Volunteers needed to shop, cook for the elderly

    The Islamic Society of Central Jersey will hold the Feed the Needy/Homeless/Elderly event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 24 at the society, 4145 Route 1 south at Promenade Boulevard, Monmouth Junction. Muslims and non-Muslims will work together to make packages of food that can be put easily in a pot and cook…

  • Conference to focus on the prophet Muhammad

    Conference to focus on the prophet Muhammad

    The Islamic Society of Central Jersey will hold the Religious Event Planning Committee’s 38th annual Seerah Conference, “Muhammad: Reviving the Love of the Prophet” from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 30 at the society, 4145 Route 1 south at Promenade Boulevard, Monmouth Junction. Speakers will be announced soon. For more information, call Dawud Assad…

  • Environmental Stewards program educates the public about science

    Environmental Stewards program educates the public about science

      The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will offer the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program (RES) at the EARTH Center, in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Ave., South Brunswick. RES educates the public about the science behind pressing environmental issues and helps participants create positive change in their communities. Stewards start out by attending…

  • East Brunswick police encourage sober driving

    East Brunswick police encourage sober driving

    Local law enforcement agencies will be cracking down on drunk drivers as part of the 2016 statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Year-End Holiday Crackdown” campaign. Through Jan. 1, local and state law enforcement officers will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated, according to information…

  • Texas woman faces several charges following fatal crash in South Brunswick

    Texas woman faces several charges following fatal crash in South Brunswick

      SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Police have filed several motor vehicle charges related to the November crash that claimed the life of a 29-year-old from Georgia. An investigation by the South Brunswick Police Department Traffic Safety Bureau in coordination with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined that around 9:22 p.m. on Nov. 8, a 2005 Volvo…

  • Sayreville man receives 5-year sentence for conspiring to import heroin

    Sayreville man receives 5-year sentence for conspiring to import heroin

    SAYREVILLE – A borough man was sentenced to 63 months in prison on for his role in a conspiracy to import heroin from India into the United States. Adolphus Nwokedi, 48, was previously convicted on an indictment charging him with one count of conspiring with others to import 100 grams or more of heroin, according…

  • Allentown police on alert for drunk drivers

    Allentown police on alert for drunk drivers

    ALLENTOWN – The Allentown Police Department is participating in the 2016 year end statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. From now through Jan. 1, local and state law enforcement officers will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, looking for motorists who may be driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs, Allentown police said…

  • VNA Health Group will move offices to Vonage campus

    VNA Health Group will move offices to Vonage campus

    VNA Health Group, the state’s largest nonprofit provider of home health, hospice and home-based primary care, has partnered with Vonage and will sublet space in the Vonage Technology Center of Excellence in Holmdel to house its headquarters and several other offices, according to a press release. VNA Health Group will vacate its offices in Red…

  • Plumsted tree lighting livens holiday season

    Plumsted tree lighting livens holiday season

    PLUMSTED – More than 100 residents rang in the holiday season at the community’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Plumsted municipal building on Evergreen Road. During the Dec. 3 event, parents and children decorated the tree with ornaments they brought prior to the tree’s illumination. The tree was donated by Big Woods Nursery…