• Participants sought for SHS Golf Outing

    The Spotswood High School (SHS) Hole- In-One Club will host its annual fundraising Golf Outing Aug. 12 at Rossmoor Golf Club, Monroe. The SHS varsity golf team is funded through the SHS Hole-In-One Club. The day will include breakfast, golf, refreshments, dinner and awards. Registration forms are available at the high school, Summerhill Road. The…

  • East Brunswick EMS squad receives $5,000 donation

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Members of the East Brunswick Rescue Squad recently celebrated the receipt of $5,026 for the squad’s operating budget. The donation was the result of the fundraiser “A Taste of East Brunswick,” which was held in April to benefit the squad. “This fundraiser was a huge success, where our town’s residents, businesses and…

  • Community theater to hold open auditions for ‘Spamalot’ musical

    Playhouse 22, East Brunswick’s community theater, will hold open auditions for its upcoming production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 and 13 at the East Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road. Callbacks are set for Aug. 15. Interested individuals, who are asked to prepare 32 bars of a Broadway-style song (tunes…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    The Hair Shop, 3188 Washington Road, Parlin section of Sayreville, will close Aug. 10 after eight years of service to the community. Hair Shop owner Maryann Minnella, accompanied by her stylists April, Carrie, Donna, Emilia, Josie, Marisa and Tina, will join the team at Hair Together Salon, 960 Route 9 South, South Amboy, effective Aug.…

  • Arne Thomsson

    Mr. Thomsson, 84, of Naples, Fla., and Monroe, formerly of East Brunswick, died July 15, 2013, in Naples Community Hospital. He opened Brookside Veneers, Cranbury, in 1973, where he remained involved until the beginning of 2013. He was a former East Brunswick Republican Party committeeman. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara Dunwoody Thomsson. Surviving…

  • Lynne P. Gementgis

    Mrs. Gementgis, 89, of Monroe, formerly of Edison, died July 13, 2013, at home. She was predeceased by her husband, Photios “Frank” Gementgis, in 2007. Surviving are two sons, James Gementgis, and his wife, Michele, of Metuchen and Thomas Gementgis, and his wife, Esmie Whilby, of Englewood; and two granddaughters. A service was offered at…

  • Helen Kruk Susan

    Mrs. Susan, 86, of South River, died July 9, 2013, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph George Susan Sr.; a sister, Mary O’Keefe; and a brother, Michael Kruk. Surviving are four children and their spouses, Deborah Susan-Krusius, and her husband, Ronald, of South River, Joseph Jr., and…

  • Carmine Joseph De Stefano

    Mr. De Stefano, 82, of East Brunswick, formerly of Edison, died July 16, 2013. Surviving are his wife, Madeline Sadeski De Stefano; a son, Peter De Stefano, and his wife, Sheila, of Danville, Calif.; three daughters, Susan Blum, and her husband, David, of South Amboy, Lisanne De Stefano-Benedict, and her husband, Gary, of Monroe and…

  • Marlene M. Lecorchick Bender

    Mrs. Bender, 78, died July 15, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Benjamin, and by a son, Benjamin Jr. Surviving are three children, Steven, and his partner Brenda Updike, of Spotswood, and Sharon and her partner, Janice, and Brenda and her partner, Mark Tozzi, all of…

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