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  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Lottery fever’s ‘Mega-letdown’

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Lottery fever’s ‘Mega-letdown’

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    What a difference one day can make.    A steady stream of customers flowed through the Stop & Go convenience store on Allston Road March 30, all looking for one magic ticket that would change their lives forever.    ”It is wishful thinking,” Kendall Park resident Dena Mazer said as she…

  • Diocese of Metuchen to introduce ‘Theology of the Body for Teens’

    Diocese of Metuchen to introduce ‘Theology of the Body for Teens’

    By Erin Friedlander PISCATAWAY – The Diocese of Metuchen will sponsor a daylong training session for those who want to learn more about a new faith formation program designed specifically for students in grades 6 through 8 entitled, Theology of the Body for Teens: Middle School Edition. An introduction to the program, which is based…

  • HILLSBOROUGH Senior Corner items for week of April 5

    News of interest to senior citizens CHAPTER A    Chapter A meets the first Thursday of the month in the municipal complex. We are open to new members.    Doors open at 11:30 a.m., alIowing you time to review the trips we offer. The meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. Coffee and doughnuts are served at meeting’s end.…

  • MANVILLE: Easter egg hunt goes off one day late

    MANVILLE: Easter egg hunt goes off one day late

    The race is on for infants and pre-kindergartners at Sunday’s Manville Easter egg hunt. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • MANVILLE: Water safety lessons offered for free at Y

       Free youth water safety lessons will be offered at Hillsborough Family Y from Monday to Saturday, April 9-14, at 19 E. Mountain Road, Hillsborough.    A free class will teach the importance of water safety, pool rules and regulations, as well as introducing basic swimming skills.    Classes will offered daily, Monday through Friday, at 3 p.m.…

  • MANVILLE: Library Happenings column

    Library to celebrate poetry in mid-month    April is the 16th annual National Poetry Month. The Manville library will celebrate the month, which is sponsored in part by Poetry Magazine and the Academy of American Poets.    Workshops will be held on Tuesday, April 17, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. for children up to age 14, and on Tuesday,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Olympian is enshrined in artwork

    HILLSBOROUGH: Olympian is enshrined in artwork

    Teenage artist Zoe Zylowski poses with Olympic runner Joetta Clark Diggs — and Zoe’s portrait of her — at Friday’s township art show and unveiling.

  • MANVILLE: Easter egg hunt goes off one day late

    MANVILLE: Easter egg hunt goes off one day late

    Don’t eat the prize! Ten-month-old Tyler Santos would crawl to the egg, sit with it and then put it is his mouth, under the watchful eye of his mother, Jamie, at Manville Recreation’s Easter egg hunt on Sunday at Lincoln Park in Lost Valley. (Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara)

  • The Fender Music Foundation Grants Insruments to Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth

    By The Fender Music Foundation Media Contact: Moriah Scoble, Executive Director Tel: 818-706-8742 Email: [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE FENDER MUSIC FOUNDATION SELECTS NEW JERSEY AFTER-SCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAM TO RECEIVE GRANT The Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth County to receive donated guitars in coming week Agoura Hills, Calif. (April 2, 2012) n The Fender…