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  • Rumson Garden Club announces lecture set for Oct. 18

    Rumson Garden Club announces lecture set for Oct. 18

    Cindy Zipf, executive director of Clean Ocean Action, a nonprofit organization based in Highlands, N.J., which focuses on improving the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast, will present a special public lecture entitled “Watershed Mindfulness – We Are All Connected to the Sea” from 11 a.m.-noon on Oct.…

  • Exhibition slated in Rumson

    Exhibition slated in Rumson

    “Cotillion – New Paintings by Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern,” will debut at Beauregard Fine Art Gallery, 109 East River Road, Rumson. The show dates are Oct. 4–Nov. 2; the Artist’s Reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 8. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., or by appointment. For more information, please call 732-450-0994.  

  • Run-Walk-Run slated Oct. 15 in Long Branch

    Run-Walk-Run slated Oct. 15 in Long Branch

    Run-Walk-Run is coming to Long Branch for 10 weeks, beginning Oct. 15. The group will meet at 8 a.m. at the Chelsea Avenue Pavilion at Boardwalk and Chelsea Avenue in Pier Village. Jeff Galloway is an Olympian who represented the United States in track and field, running the 10K in the 1972 Munich Games. Since…

  • Project FX, the Count Basie Theatre’s statewide student film competition opens

    Project FX, the Count Basie Theatre’s statewide student film competition opens

    RED BANK — Project FX 2016, the Count Basie Theatre’s statewide student film competition presented by Bank of America, is live at www.projectFXbasie.com. Starting now, students enrolled at any New Jersey high school or college can visit the site to learn about entering the competition, with an internship experience with Sony Pictures Classics, a high-end…

  • Session will address Muslim rights

    Session will address Muslim rights

      The Islamic Society of Central Jersey (ISCJ) will hold an informative session on knowing your rights at 6:45 p.m. on Oct. 1, right after Magrib, at the ISCJ, 4145 Route 1 south at Promenade Boulevard, Monmouth Junction. Since Anti-Muslim sentiment continues to rise, ISCJ and James Sues, executive director of CAIR-NJ (Council on American-Islamic…

  • South Brunswick police continue to collect unwanted prescriptions

    South Brunswick police continue to collect unwanted prescriptions

      SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The South Brunswick Police Department is continuing the Project Medicine Drop initiative, collecting unwanted, expired and unused medication in a bin that is located in the lobby of police headquarters. Pills, capsules, patches and pet medications are accepted; syringes/sharps or liquid medications are not. Empty all medication into a plastic or zipper…

  • Temple will host rabbi as scholar in residence

    Temple will host rabbi as scholar in residence

    MARLBORO – The Marlboro Jewish Center will welcome Rabbi Debra Orenstein to the community for a Scholar in Residence program on Oct. 21-22. Her topics for the weekend will be “Modern Slavery and the Jewish Problem” and “Finding (More) Meaning in Jewish Ritual.” For 20 years, Orenstein was an instructor at the American Jewish University,…

  • Middlesex County celebrates emergency services volunteers

    Middlesex County celebrates emergency services volunteers

    The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held the annual Volunteer Appreciation Day to celebrate and applaud the efforts of emergency services volunteers throughout the county. About 200 volunteer firefighters, EMS, Emergency Management and other volunteers and their families attended the celebration at Johnson Park in Piscataway on Sept. 25, which featured children’s activities, safety demonstrations, friendly…

  • Police investigate reported incident of harassment

    Police investigate reported incident of harassment

    MANALAPAN – Police are investigating a computer scam that turned into a case of harassment. Police said that on Sept. 21, a resident of Manalapan reported that he was the victim of a computer virus scam. The resident told police he paid $200 with a credit card to remove the virus from his computer. Police…