Category: Suburban Calendar

  • Annual school drive nets 38 tons of food

    Students, teachers and staff at 137 Middlesex County schools collected 38.4 tons of canned goods and nonperishable food, baby supplies and personal items during the 2002 spring food drive sponsored by the Middlesex County Food Outreach Organization and Distribution System (MCFOODS). Both the number of schools participating and the amount of food collected are records…

  • Grand opening

    Michael Casselman (r), 5, waits in line during opening-day festivities for the Old Bridge baseball season Saturday. Below, players with the Sayrewoods South Little League march from Throckmorton Lane to their Old Bridge fields off Cindy Street. VERONICA YANKOWSKI PHOTOS

  • Boy, 16, dies after accident

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome SOUTH RIVER — A 16-year-old borough boy was killed last week after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Michael Zur, 16, died at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, April 4, the day following the accident. According to South River police, Michael suffered blunt trauma to…

  • Community Bulletin Board Rutgers to present talk on Jewish experience

    Community Bulletin Board Rutgers to present talk on Jewish experience The fifth annual Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture series will present a discussion titled "The Ghetto of Venice: The Beginnings of the Jewish Urban Experience" at 5 p.m. on April 23 at the Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building, 33…

  • Community Bulletin Board MOMTalk schedules April 14 fund-raiser

    Community Bulletin Board MOMTalk schedules April 14 fund-raiser MOMTalk, a support group for mothers (or fathers) with young children, will hold a fund-raising kitchen demonstration with an independent kitchen consultant from Pampered Chef at 3 p.m. on April 14 at East Brunswick Congregational Church, 402 New Brunswick Ave., East Brunswick. Food and refreshments will be…

  • Community Bulletin Board Tea party will benefit ovarian cancer research

    Community Bulletin Board Tea party will benefit ovarian cancer research St. Bartholomew’s Adult Choir, East Brunswick, will host a Victorian Garden Tea Party to benefit ovarian cancer research on April 14 at the Unitarian Society, 176 Tices Lane, East Brunswick, between Route 18 and Ryders Lane. Seatings will be ongoing from 2-5 p.m. The event,…

  • Holocaust panel sets April 14 observance

    Holocaust panel sets April 14 observance The Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee will hold its annual Yom Hashoa Commemoration at 1:30 p.m. on April 14 at Monroe Township High School, Perrineville Road. The theme of this year’s observance is "From Generation to Generation." Guest speaker Mercer County Executive Robert D. Prunetti will discuss his visits…

  • O.B. man killed in auto accident

    OLD BRIDGE — Police are investigating a one-vehicle accident that resulted in the death of a township man Sunday. According to police reports, Michael Ebenstein, 55, was driving his 2001 Mazda sport-utility vehicle westbound on Throckmorton Lane at 8:25 a.m. when the vehicle crossed into the eastbound lane and veered onto the lawn of a…

  • Classic concerns

    At the Classic Knights Car Show in Old Bride Sunday, (l-r, top) George Lee, John Resch and Richard Hart and his 9-year-old son, Sean, check out the Harts’ 1948 Chevy pickup. At left, fuzzy dice hang from one of the mirrors at the car show. PHOTOS BY VERONICA YANKOWSKI