• MCC Award

    Hank Bauer, of North Brunswick, (second from left) received the 2012 L’Hommedieu Award, Middlesex County College’s highest honor, during the college’s fall convocation on Aug. 27. Bauer served on the college board of trustees from November 1993 to April 2012. He has been vice chairman and secretary of the board, as well as a member…

  • Feeling a little under the weather? Then stop lying

    CODA GREG BEAN I’ve been watching the Republican National Convention on television, and the response to that shindig from people on the other side, and while it has been great theater, I started feeling pretty sorry for everyone involved because it looks like all that posturing, and spinning, and often outright prevaricating may be making…

  • Reader: S.B. liquor stores should be open until 10 p.m. on Sundays

    Several weeks ago, the South Brunswick Township Council addressed the concern of a local liquor store owner. The issue is this: South Brunswick liquor stores must close at 5 p.m. on Sunday, while neighboring communities allow their liquor stores to remain open until 10 p.m. The result is that the South Brunswick business owners are…

  • Voter turnout is needed from the millennials

    In election after election, voters head to the polls to vote, and the data from the elections afterward show that the youngest eligible group to vote (ages 18- 24) is always consistently the group with the lowest voter turnout. It is a simple fact backed up by data that young people do not vote. This…

  • Jewish holiday apple picking event Sept. 9

    Jewish Family and Vocational Service (JFVS) Young Leadership Family Division is holding an apple picking event from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept. 9 at Von Thun Farms, 519 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction. Admission is free and includes hay rides, farm animals, and Rosh Hashanah cardmaking stations. Attendees can pick apples at a discounted rate…

  • Joint Base McGuire- Dix-Lakehurst to host mud run

    The 2012 “Beast of the East” mud run is set to welcome as many as 5,000 runners on Sept. 8 at Joint Base McGuire- Dix-Lakehurst in south central New Jersey. Participants will have to low crawl, ascend, rope climb and balance through 23 wet and muddy obstacles in this year’s 10K mud run, according to…

  • Employees get counseling after shooting

    BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Law enforcement personnel investigate the scene of a shooting at a supermarket on Route 9 north, Old Bridge, on Aug. 31. Two employees working the overnight shift were killed by a gunman who then committed suicide, authorities said. JEFF GRANIT staff During an overnight shift at the Pathmark supermarket on…

  • Experts: Motive hard to ascribe immediately after shooting

    BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Experts in workplace violence and criminal justice reacted to the Aug. 31 shooting in an Old Bridge Pathmark supermarket by analyzing what the alleged shooter’s motivations may have been. A Pathmark employee allegedly shot and killed two fellow employees before turning the gun on himself during the 4 a.m. shooting,…

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