Category: Suburban Calendar

  • Fund-raisers

    Dec. 24 Fund-raisers Dec. 24 • The Spotswood High School Band is participating in a Kash for Kids fund-raising program that pays the band $2 for each empty inkjet or laser computer cartridge collected. Collection boxes are at the high school, Memorial School and KrisKell Creations Hair Salon, all Summerhill Road; Schoenly School, Kane Avenue;…

  • In the Service

    In the Service Marine Corps Maj. James E. Donnellan, a 1984 graduate of Madison Central High School, Old Bridge, recently returned from an eight-month deployment embarked aboard the USS Iwo Jima, while assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Donnellan was one of more than 4,000 Atlantic Fleet Sailors and…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Residents enjoy the tree and menorah lighting at the Old Bridge municipal complex Monday.

  • Chabad chai center has Hanukkah store, camp

    The Lubavitch Chabad Chai Center, a nonprofit organization, has opened its annual Hanukkah store at 733 Route 18 south in East Brunswick, through Dec. 26. Everything Hanukkah offers menorah gifts, children’s books and toys, tapes, CDs, videos and software and a variety of items from Israel. Children’s Hanukkah activities will be held throughout the day.…

  • Multi-Faith Coalition will meet in Monroe

    Multi-Faith Coalition will meet in Monroe The Multi-Faith Coalition will hold its second meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 6 at Congregation Etz Chaim/Monroe Township Jewish Center, 11 Cornell Ave. The meeting will feature a discus­sion titled "Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" with Bruce Feiler. All are welcome. For more infor­mation,…

  • Carols and twinkling lights

    Carols and twinkling lights CHRIS KELLY staff Kerin Zinze (above), 16, sings with the Old Bridge High School chorus at the township’s annual tree- and menorah-lighting ceremony at the municipal complex Monday. At left, Darius Ryfa and son Anthony, 3, enjoy the festivities.

  • Story time registration planned at O.B. Library

    Story time registration planned at O.B. Library In-person registration for preschool winter story times at the Old Bridge Public Library Main Branch, Route 516 and Cottrell Road, will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 6 for children not in the preceding fall session and at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 for repeaters. An Old Bridge…

  • Community Bulletin Board

    Jazz association meeting slated for Jan. 7 Community Bulletin Board Jazz association meeting slated for Jan. 7 The Central Jersey Jazz Association, Old Bridge, will hold its next meeting Jan. 7 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the North Brunswick Municipal Complex, 710 Hermann Road. The event will feature presentations of various styles of piano music including…

  • Arts panel will offer ‘Peter and the Wolf’

    The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission will present the Bronx Arts Ensemble in a performance of Prokofiev’s "Peter and the Wolf" and other works beginning at 2 p.m. on Jan. 17 at the Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts at Monroe Township High School, Perrineville Road. The ensemble, which consists of a woodwind…