• YMCA sponsors trip to see musical comedy

    The public is invited to take a trip with the YMCA of Metuchen-Edison- Woodbridge-South Amboy to the Imperial Theater in New York on Saturday, May 5 to see TonyAward-winnerMatthew Broderick and Tony nominee Kelly O’Hara in the new musical comedy, “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” The ticket price of $130 includes orchestra seat…

  • The final act of the driver’s ed drama

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH I ’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m a back-seat driver. From my passenger seat I tend to panic as stoplights approach, cringe as passing cars draw near, and have been known to douse myself with holy water to ward off would-be collisions. Therefore, I am…

  • They’ve drawn one more ridiculous line in the sand

    CODA GREG BEAN Here’s today’s theoretical question: What’s lower than whale manure? Answer: The national approval rating for Congress if they don’t get this student loan nightmare sorted out by the July 1 deadline, and the interest rate on 7.4 million student loans doubles from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. According to the folks who…

  • Writer supports flat federal income tax

    Notice the way many of our elected officials created a divide between the socalled 99 percent and the 1 percent in the amount paid in federal income tax? How did our country get into such dire straits? Here are some facts to consider, in the 1950s and the 1960s, 70 percent of all federal income…

  • We have a bully in Trenton, former mayor says

    Gov. Chris Christie continues to surprise and shock me. Yes, I am a former Republican mayor, who is expected to say nothing bad about our Republican governor, but I cannot help myself. The latest news of his increasing the amount the state “skims” from the utility tax from 1 or 2 percent to 20 percent…

  • BOE spends taxpayers’ money in frivolous way

    Regarding the recent Edison Board of Education budget that was passed, I must again make a case for the frivolous way this board spends our money. This budget is $7 million more than last year and $14 million than the previous year. I and two other Edison residents attended the board meeting wherein they were…

  • Register for Metuchen Memorial Day parade

    The Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will honor veterans and active military personnel with its 85th Memorial Day parade and ceremony onMay 28 beginning at 10 a.m. This Metuchen tradition is one of the area’s longest-established Memorial Day parades. This year’s theme is “Honoring Our Women in the Military” and the parade will feature female…

  • Metuchen woman makes 100th donation to N.B. blood center

    METUCHEN — Deborah Chalfin started donating platelets at the New Brunswick Affiliated Hospitals (NBAH) in 1998, in support of a friend who was having a bone marrow transplant at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She and the hospital staff recently celebrated a milestone: Chalfin made her 100th donation to the NBAH. “It’s an easy and…

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