• Restaurant to share sales with OLOL

    Our Lady of Lourdes (OLOL) School, Milltown, will sponsor a dining fundraiser 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. March 18 at Pasquale Brick Oven Pizza and Ristorante, 120 Ryders Lane, Milltown. The restaurant will donate 50 percent of the day’s sales to the school. For more information, log on to the OLOL website at http://ololschoolnj.org/P%20Pasquale%20031 813.pdf or the…

  • Passport application processing is March 9

    The Middlesex County Clerk’s Office will be open during special weekend hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 9 to process passport applications in the Freeholder Meeting Room (first floor), Middlesex County Administration Building, 75 Bayard St., New Brunswick. Persons applying for a passport must bring:  Evidence of U.S. citizenship in the…

  • Local musicians to perform with Rutgers Symphonic Band

    The Rutgers Symphony Band will dedicate a performance to trombonist, band leader and composer Arthur Pryor (1870-1942) in “Americana on the Raritana,” a pops concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 at the Nicholas Music Center, in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, 85 George St. , Douglass campus of Rutgers University, New…

  • CODA

    CPAC’s message to Christie: You’re not our kind of people GREG BEAN I t was the great American philosopher Groucho Marx who sent the Friars Club this terse message by telegram: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.” Last week, New…

  • Center helps empower women to achieve goals

    March marks Women’s History Month, a national commemoration of the economic, political and social achievements of women. As we celebrate women’s accomplishments, I invite you to remember the local women who need our help to become economically and personally self-sufficient. I’m talking about displaced homemakers — women who have lost their primary means of financial…

  • Photo

    The great egret, seen here at the Forsythe National Wildlife Reserve, Oceanville, carries a burden none of us can comprehend. Just imagine how it makes its cousin, the mediocre egret, feel. BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com

  • School district seeks votes in tech contest

    The Old Bridge school district is urging members of the public to vote for its video in a contest sponsored by Follett, a digitally powered, integrated educational-technology company. The Follett Challenge is a program created to find and reward schools for their work applying technology, content, and creativity in ways that engage students, foster literacy…

  • Old Bridge mayor accepting essays for scholarship contest

    Students can apply by March 8 BY TOM CASTLES Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The mayor’s office is accepting essays from Old Bridge High School (OBHS) juniors and seniors as part of the New Jersey League of Municipalities’ (NJLM) Louis Bay II Future Municipal Leaders Scholarship Competition. Students must submit an essay of 500 words…

  • Pancake Breakfast to aid Lions projects

    The Sayreville Lions Club will hold its semiannual Pancake Breakfast at 8 a.m.-noon on March 24 at Sayreville War Memorial High School, 800 Washington Road. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children. For tickets or more information, see any Sayreville Lions Club member, log on to www.sayrevillenj.lionwap.org or call 732-234-3932. Proceeds from the…

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