Category: Suburban Calendar

  • Clerks will retire in 2002

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome SAYREVILLE –– Two longtime employees of the borough clerk’s office have announced their retirements. At a Nov. 13 meeting, the Borough Council accepted the retirements of both Municipal Clerk Gladys Rzepka and Assistant Municipal Clerk Joan Lehocky. Rzepka has been working for the borough since 1963, according to Acting Business…

  • Band parents offering tickets to Devils game

    The Sayreville War Memorial High School Band Parents Association is selling tickets to the New Jersey Devils vs. Edmonton Oilers hockey game, set for 7:35 p.m. on Dec. 20 in the Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford. Cost is $34 (box office price: $52) for second-level seating. Payment is due by Dec. 6. For more information…

  • Texas Road homes with dry wells will get public water

    Staff Writer By sue m. morgan Texas Road homes with dry wells will get public water OLD BRIDGE — Township Business Administrator Alayne Shepler announced at the Nov. 8 Township Council meeting that 11 Texas Road residents whose wells have dried up will be hooked into the municipal water system within eight to nine weeks,…

  • E.B. church sets bazaar, cookie walk, wreath sale

    Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 568 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, will hold a Christmas Bazaar, Cookie Walk and Wreath Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 8. Ready-to-give containers will be available to fill with an assortment of homemade cookies offered at $5 per pound. The church’s youth fellowship groups will sell holiday greenery.…

  • Bulletin Board Father’s club to sponsor fall arts and crafts show

    Bulletin Board Father’s club to sponsor fall arts and crafts show The St. Joseph High School Father’s Club will sponsor its 23rd annual fall arts and crafts show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 17 and 18 at the school, 145 Plainfield Ave., Metuchen. The indoor event will feature more than 200 crafters.…

  • New Jersey jobs expo scheduled for Nov. 28

    New Jersey jobs expo scheduled for Nov. 28 The New Jersey Department of Labor will sponsor the New Jersey Jobs Expo — New Jersey Responds from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 28 at the Continental Airlines Arena at the Meadowlands, East Rutherford. The event, which will feature approximately 200 employers, is designed to…

  • Community Bulletin Board Metlar/Bodine to offer Nov. 16 Acoustic Cafe

    Community Bulletin Board Metlar/Bodine to offer Nov. 16 Acoustic Cafe The Metlar/Bodine Acoustic Cafe will present performers Akir Bubar and Adam Bernstein at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the Metlar/Bodine House Museum, 1281 River Road, Piscataway. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. The cafe, the museum’s music series held on the third Friday of…

  • Hospital tree lighting scheduled for Nov. 29

    Hospital tree lighting scheduled for Nov. 29 The Raritan Bay Medical Center Old Bridge Auxiliary and Junior Auxiliary will sponsor a holiday tree lighting at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 29 at the medical center’s Old Bridge division, off Ferry Road, between routes 9 and 18. The event will feature entertainment by local elementary school choirs,…

  • Borough receives $220,000 grant

    SAYREVILLE — The borough will receive a $220,000 grant toward improvements of MacArthur Avenue from the state Department of Transportation, Mayor Kennedy O’Brien announced earlier this week. The grant will be awarded through the Transportation Trust Fund, Borough Engineer Jay Cornell said. The funds will help to mill the existing pavement and repave MacArthur Avenue,…