• NBTHS to host clothing and toy drive May 11

    The North Brunswick Township High School (NBTHS) PTO’s Project Graduation Committee will hold a clothing drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 11 at the school’s student drop-off area, Raider Road. Clothes, bed linens, shoes, coats, hard toys (in boxes no bigger than 24-by-24- inches) and stuffed animals will be collected. With the exception…

  • Tenor to perform opera repertoire in Somerset

    Somerset Presbyterian Church, 100 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Somerset, will host a concert with tenor opera singer Timothy Bentch, accompanied by Bethany Brooks, at 6:30 p.m. May 19. The concert will feature arias, folk and gospel songs. Refreshments will follow the concert. Tickets are $15 each. Contact Barbara Nicol after 4 p.m. at 732-266-5827, or…

  • on campus 

    Middlesex County College named the following local students to Phi Theta Kappa, the academic honor society for two-year colleges: From North Brunswick, Jonathan Hamrick, Katherine Januszka, McKenzie Frattalone, Cara Farella, Courtney Onwuzuruigbo, Joseph Razzano, Jennifer Aguiar, Natka Atanasova, Dhruv Chunawala, Natalie Fiorino, Purvita Ghantala, Richard Logan, Yohayra Azcona, Adrian- Marie Diaz, Nicole Gibbons, Alexander Scovell…

  • What’s going on?

    North Brunswick Township High School student Raelis Vasquez was awarded a double silver medal in drawing and painting, and Hannah Sawyer received a silver medal in oratory during the NAACP ACT-SO Youth Olympics art competition on April 21 at Montclair High School. Pictured is one of Vasquez’s winning submissions, a sketch of musician Marvin Gaye.

  • DOT announces resurfacing along Routes 18, 26 and 27

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Three miles of deteriorated pavement along Route 27 between North Brunswick and Franklin will be repaved. The New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that Route 27 will be resurfaced in both directions from the vicinity of Sanford Street to the vicinity of Parillo Drive, where the highway borders Franklin Township in…

  • Stamps and coins needed for hospitalized vets

    Monroe Township Post No. 609 of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA is collecting the following items to send to hospitalized veterans: United States and foreign stamps, both on and off paper; United States foreign coins and paper money; sports cards; post cards; catalogs for stamps and coins; stock books; magnifying glasses; tongs and…

  • Local student wins first place in contest

    Alice Liu of South Brunswick received a first-place prize for grades 2-3 in the 2013 “Where Does Your Water Shed” poster contest, offered by the Freehold Soil Conservation District. Students in grades 2-12 in Monmouth and Middlesex counties were encouraged to explore the need for clean and plentiful water. All first-place winners were submitted to…

  • A-OK

    Students from St. Augustine of Canterbury School (St. A’s) built a replica of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow during a recent Odyssey of the Mind competition. Three teams brought home trophies, medals and a state championship during the Odyssey of the Mind New Jersey State Finals on April 13.

  • Emerging cicadas will benefit ecosystem

    This spring, cicadas will emerge along the East Coast after 17 years underground. These friendly bugs are causing a lot of buzz — and not just because of the drum-like “love song” that male cicadas make to attract females. Cicadas are a boon to the local ecosystem. Cicada nymphs construct chimney-like tunnels as they emerge,…

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