• Knights thank all who helped food pantry

    On behalf of the Our Lady of Peace Knights of Columbus, I would like to thank everyone involved for making the North Brunswick Food Bank fundraiser at Applebee’s an enormous success. With the help of the Knights, the Columbiettes, the Applebee’s staff, countless other volunteers and, of course, the generosity of North Brunswick’s citizens, we…

  • Principal thanks community upon retirement

    Thank you to the North Brunswick Township Board of Education for allowing me to work in North Brunswick for the past 11 years as the principal of John Adams Elementary School. Thank you to the parents of John Adams for allowing me to work with their children. I am so happy to have had this…

  • Tax gas, not parkway drivers

    Didn’t I read the N.J. gasoline tax has been tapped out? The Garden State Parkway tolls bring in double what is needed, due to collection costs using half. To be fair about it, parkway users pay N.J. gas tax for all roads, plus the tolls for using the parkway out of necessity. The rest of…

  • New Jersey should celebrate its German roots

    I n a state where culture, faith and history roots to 17th-18th century North America, why are there no plans to celebrate and honor the Palatine emigrants who first arrived here 299 summers ago? When we take time to think of the generations of community, faith, civics and history, the German Americans have contributed to…

  • Peachy keen

    Top: Eric Siegel (l-r) and Ed Kowacz, of Von Thun Farms in South Brunswick, wait patiently for the next customer during the Metuchen Market Day farmers market held along Pearl Street in downtown Metuchen on June 16. Above: Walt Nenzel, of Von Thun’s, arranges a bin of peaches. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Epilepsy fundraiser raises $3,000

    A fundraiser held by the Meehan family on June 9 raised $3,000 to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey. The annual barbecue was held in honor of Michael Meehan, who was a 26-year-old North Brunswick and Kendall Park resident who was involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident in February 2006. Meehan had had…

  • Safe driving

    North Brunswick letter carrier Rich Chiselko has driven 1 million accident-free miles during his 30-year career, the equivalent of traveling around the earth 40.1 times. Chiselko, of Somerset, begins his work at the New Brunswick Carrier Annex and delivers mail in the Nathan Drive and Hidden Lake Drive neighborhoods of North Brunswick. He received the…

  • Creative arts summer program starts July 30

    A two-week creative arts summer program, “In a Kaleidoscope,” will be offered at Crossroads North Middle School July 30–Aug. 10, for grades 6-9. This visual artsbased writing program combining left and right activities is designed to enhance every level of student writing through artistic expression. “In a Kaleidoscope” is planned in conjunction with theAging in…

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