• Spotswood comes to grips with unkempt properties

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Borough officials are scrambling to keep up with a large influx of complaints about unkempt properties. “If you walk around town with your eyes open, you’ll see [that] some places are terrible,” resident Frank Kardashian said at the July 15 meeting of the Borough Council. “People have so…

  • New hours added to thrift-store schedule

    The Thrift Shop at Trinity United Methodist Church, 815 Bordentown Ave., Sayreville, recently added summer evening hours: 5-8 p.m. Thursdays. The store will continue its regular daytime hours of operation: 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For more information, call the church at 732-721-3558.

  • Tickets on sale for Calendar Raffle

    St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, MacArthur Avenue and Main Street, Sayreville, will sponsor a Calendar Raffle beginning in August to help celebrate the parish’s upcoming 100th anniversary. Tickets for the raffle, which will run through December, cost $20 each. A winning prize ticket will be drawn every Thursday night at the start of the parish’s bingo…

  • Summer Food Drive runs through July 31

    East Brunswick is holding its 10th annual Summer Food Drive through July 31 to support East Brunswick families in need and for donation to Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services (MCFOODS). Donations may be dropped off 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the East Brunswick Department of Recreation, Parks and Community Services, 350 Dunhams Corner…

  • Uncertainty surrounds South River appointments

    By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — Borough officials have attempted to fill spots on the borough’s Economic Development Commission (EDC), but whether that has officially occurred will be the subject of further discussion. The EDC is composed of five regular members and four alternates, and at least five of those nine openings were scheduled…

  • Archeology-themed artwork by local resident to be displayed in Chicago

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Kevan Lunney of East Brunswick will exhibit a selection of her work Nov. 1-3 at SOFA (Sculpture Objects Functional Art & Design) Chicago 2013 at the Navy Pier Festival Hall. Lunney’s “Archeology Fragments” collection features works in linen, paint and stitch that resemble documents from ancient Egypt, Rome and the Far East.…

  • Golf league expresses gratitude for VFW

    The ladies of the Tamarack Women’s Nine Hole Golf League would like to send out a big “thank you” to Tom Coolhill and the VFW Post 133 in East Brunswick for their generosity. As a nonprofit organization, our golf league needed a place to have our luncheon for the Go Red fundraiser for the American…

  • Main Street Theatre Co. to offer sign language at performances

    By STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer They don’t want to grow up — the cast of the Main Street Theatre Co.’s production of “Peter Pan and Wendy” is between the ages of 5 and 13. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MAIN STREET THEATRE CO. SAYREVILLE — The Main Street Theatre Co. is creating opportunities for the hearing-impaired…

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