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Key Food replaces damaged Foodtown in South Amboy
By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Key Food is now open for business on Bordentown Avenue in South Amboy. PHOTO COURTESY OF HELEN FERENCZ SOUTH AMBOY — One of the city’s newest businesses is quickly making itself right at home. Key Food opened July 12 at the former Foodtown site on Bordentown Avenue. Store owner Nasser Nasser…
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AARP sponsoring Pigeon Forge trip
Old Bridge AARP Chapter No. 4854 will offer a seven-day, six-night bus trip to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and the Smoky Mountains Oct. 6-12. Cost is $535 per person. Trip includes motor-coach transportation, hotel accommodations, 10 meals, four evening shows, guided tours, etc. Spots are still available. For more information and to reserve, call Hank McKee…
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Dining event to aid YMCA scholarships
Sciortino’s Harbor Lights Restaurant and the South Amboy Branch YMCA will team up for a Proceeds Day to benefit the Y’s Strong Kids program, 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. July 25 at Sciortino’s, 132 S. Broadway, South Amboy. The restaurant will donate 15 percent of all bills, dine-in only, to the Y’s scholarship program for local families…
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‘On Golden Pond’ to begin film series
The Old Bridge Public Library Main Branch, Route 516 and Cottrell Road, will host an upcoming series of Friday matinees at the library. All films, which are sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will be shown at 1:30 p.m. The schedule is as follows: Aug. 2 — “On Golden Pond,” starring Katharine Hepburn,…
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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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Boscov’s preview event will benefit St. Mary’s
St. Mary’s Parish, South Amboy, will take part in Boscov’s Gala Preview for a Great Cause planned for 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at the chain’s new store set to open in Woodbridge Center Mall. The sneak peek will feature merchandise, refreshments and entertainment. St. Mary’s will sell tickets at a cost of…
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Smells like bath time
Two dogs take a whiff of each other prior to Dogtopia’s ninth annual charity dog wash on July 21. The event benefits working K-9s who help veterans living with mental and physical challenges. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Canines and their owners join in the fun.
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Plays-in-the-Park puts spotlight on fighting summer hunger
Ilona Kovacs (l) and Margaret Papai pick up food from the Bayard Street Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick for MCFOODS. Summer in central New Jersey brings with it both the good and the bad. Almost ceremoniously, the annual temperature spike means that Plays-in-the- Park — a county-sponsored, more-thanhalf century-old staple of outdoor theater in Edison’s…
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Do people really need to be taught how to love?
I n response to the article, “Saint Peter’s to Aid Families of LGBT Youth” (Suburban, July 11), I find it almost laughable that time, money and energy is being spent to “counsel” families on how to deal with the news that their child or loved one is LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender). Has it…
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