• Church to sponsor Community Cookout

    Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 151 Milltown Road, East Brunswick, will host a Community Cookout 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 24. The event will feature the cookout, games and activities. All are invited.

  • Milltown rec offers trip, tennis, fitness

    The Milltown Department of Recreation will offer several upcoming events. All trips and programs are open to borough residents and nonresidents. Reservations are being accepted for a Sept. 23 trip to see “Newsies” on Broadway. Cost is $125 per ticket; price includes transportation and show ticket. A two-week session of swim lessons at the Milltown…

  • Date change for McCarrick golf event

    The third annual Golf Outing to benefit Cardinal McCarrick/St. Mary’s High School, South Amboy has been rescheduled to Sept. 24 at Concordia Golf Club, Monroe. Golfers will tee up at 1:15 p.m. The fee of $125 includes a light lunch of hot dogs and all the fixings, a barbecue-dinner reception and on-course beverages. Cart and…

  • Lunch law means reduced portions for some students

    Schools will also be required to serve five vegetable groups each week, one per day BY ADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Starting in September, students will be required to take the vegetable portion with their lunch, though schools will still have no way of making sure students eat their veggies. The new changes are the…

  • Better to forget ‘Total Recall’

    MOVIES BY MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER Len Wiseman’s “Total Recall” manages to rummage through our worst fears. More or less a reimagining of the 1990 film, also inspired by the Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the film made me wish that I too, could visit a Rekall store —…

  • Zumba fundraiser to aid rescue squad

    All Around Fitness, Old Bridge, will sponsor a Zumba fundraiser 10 a.m. Aug. 20 at the Old Bridge First Aid and Rescue Squad hall, 200 Marlboro Road, off Route 18 north. Net proceeds will benefit the volunteer squad. Registration is $8. For more information or to register in advance, email AllAround- [email protected] or call 877-214-…

  • Knights Pop Warner plans Aug. 18 dance

    The Old Bridge Knights Pop Warner football and cheerleading organization will host a fundraising dance 9 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Breakfast Club, Route 516, Old Bridge. Cost is $40 per person and includes $15 admission fee, an open bar from 9-11 p.m. and appetizers. For more information, visit www.obknights.com.

  • ARE WE THERE YET

    For mom and dad, getting there wasn’t half the fun LORI CLINCH When I first started driving, I felt I had a real connection with the road. I was able to round the corners, navigate the curves and cruise from destination to destination with nary an incident. Quite honestly, I felt I’d mastered the skill…

  • Companies and unions should pay to re-educate workers

    When I attended high school in Brooklyn, we were taught that New York’s main industry was textiles. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, New York companies began “outsourcing” textile production and related industries to southern states like South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi because the cheap labor in those “poor” states compensated for labor and shipping…

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