• Talk on spirituality slated at Edison library

    The Edison Main Library will host professor and author Mehesh Harvu with a talk on the philosophy of body, mind and spirit on Aug. 3 at 11 a.m. Author of “Spaghetti Minds,” Harvu helps to make the connection between the “real world” and living a life of spiritual bliss. According to Harvu, philosophy and science…

  • JCC to offer film author visit, dinner

    Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County (JCC) will offer a showing of the film, “Me and Orson Welles,” starring Claire Danes, Zac Efron and Christian McKay at 2 p.m. Aug. 1. Following the film, Robert Kaplow, Metuchen resident and author of the book upon which the film is based, will speak. A kosher Chinese buffet…

  • DEP speaker will dig ‘Beneath the Surface’ to find meaning in garbage

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer METUCHEN — A special guest will be talking trash at the borough library this week. Sondra Flite, an environmental specialist with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)’s Bureau of Recycling and Planning, will present “Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage” on Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. “It started only because…

  • Officials push bill allowing use of utility vehicle

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer METUCHEN — Although the borough fire department’s utility vehicle (UTV) is registered, licensed and insured, its actual utility remains minimal as Metuchen officials wait for the governor to sign a bill allowing its use throughout town. “Ironically, it’s not allowed to be used on the streets,” Mayor Thomas Vahalla said.…

  • Edison officials tweak police hiring, promotions ordinance

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — The township’s newly revised ordinance governing police hiring and promotional practices eliminates politics as much as possible, according to Councilman Thomas Lankey. The Township Council voted to introduce the ordinance at its July 24 regular meeting. “This was not done with the easiest of efforts, with all the…

  • Dinosaur roams Edison library’s lot

    By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer This text will be replaced An animatronic T-rex mingles with kids and their parents at the North Edison Branch Library on July 24. PHOTOS BY FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI New Jersey has a rich history of dinosaurs, and it even has its own official state dinosaur. It’s called the Hadrosaurus foulkii. People…

  • Once again, controversy rains on India Day Parade in Edison

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer This year marks round three in a battle between two groups seeking to run Edison’s annual India Day Parade. The Township Council last week granted both organizations permits to hold the parade, which brings as many as 35,000 people to Oak Tree Road in Edison and Woodbridge each year to…

  • EMS official: We’re the victim of a bad deal

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer A new contract that has JFK Medical Center providing 24-hour, sevenday a-week ambulance service in Edison may bring an end to the township’s volunteer first aid model. “It basically disbands the volunteer EMS [Emergency Medical Services] in the township,” said Vamsi Revuru, head trustee of Edison First Aid Squad No.…

  • PRINCETON: PU’s Ford signs with Yankees

    It may not have happened just the way that Mike Ford imagined, but he couldn’t have foreseen a better ending to his Princeton University baseball career and beginning of his professional career. By Justin Feil, Packet Media Group It may not have happened just the way that Mike Ford imagined, but he couldn’t have foreseen…

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