• Share your cherished traditions

    Do you remember the excitement of lighting the eighth menorah candle; listening for reindeer hooves on the roof; being allowed to stay up to watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve; celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa; offering food and chanting the Buddha’s teachings? Does your family have a special holiday or festival tradition…

  • ‘100 Square Inches’ at the Art Alliance

    The December exhibit at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County is “100 Square Inches.” As the name implies, each piece in the exhibit measures 100 square inches. The window artist for this exhibit is potter Christina Paraskevas Carlson, who has been creating pottery for more than 20 years and is a pottery instructor at the…

  • History by lantern light

    Each year on an early December night, about 200 people tread on worn brick paths lit by luminarias along Sycamore Avenue at Broad Street (Route 35), Shrewsbury’s Historic Four Corners. They are there to witness history in some of the oldest surviving structures in Monmouth County: Christ Church Shrewsbury, the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury, the…

  • Ginharda “Ginny” E. Malanga

    Mrs. Malanga, 81, of Old Bridge, died Nov. 14, 2012, in Summer Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Old Bridge. Surviving are her husband, Carmine Malanga; a sister, Gerlinda Gerheart, of Germany; a brother-in-law, Lawrence Malanga; two sisters-in-law, Carmella Corona and Josephine Speteri; and many nieces and nephews. Cremation was private. Arrangements were by Michael Hegarty…

  • Frank J. Zwolinski

    Mr. Zwolinski, 69, of South River, died Nov. 13, 2012, at home. Prior to his retirement seven years ago, he was employed by Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick, where he worked for 41 years as a lab technician and then as a chauffeur. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Ptaszynski Zwolinski; four children and their spouses, Michael…

  • Frank J. “Coach” Powaski Sr.

    Mr. Powaski, 93, of Spotswood, died Nov. 18, 2012, in Foothill Acres Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Hillsborough. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was employed as a supervisor for Heide Candy Co., North Brunswick, where he worked for 50 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Genevieve. Surviving are a daughter, Diane Tedesco, of…

  • Rich

    Mr. Rich, 86, of Monroe, died Nov. 22, 2012, at home. Surviving are his wife, Helen Cohen Rich; two daughters, Sheryl Brunswick of Cleveland and Leslie Binenstock, and her husband, Gary, of Bridgewater; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Graveside services were held at Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin section of Woodbridge. Arrangements were under the direction…

  • L. Prendergast

    Ms. Prendergast, 32, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, formerly of Jamesburg, died Nov. 21, 2012, at home. She previously worked as a veterinary assistant for Amboy Avenue Veterinary Hospital, Metuchen. Surviving are a daughter, Kyleigh R. Prendergast; her parents, James R. and Debra J. Conrad Prendergast; five siblings, Jennifer Willaert, and her husband,…

  • Robert Miles Miller

    Mr. Miller, 89, of Spotswood, died Nov. 15, 2012, at home. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy B. Jones Miller, and a granddaughter, Margaret Mary Miller. Surviving are two sons, James Miller, and his wife, Maggie, of Spotswood and George Rasch II, and his wife, Barbara, of Old Bridge; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.…

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