• Friends bring ‘Fair Trade’ shopping to Metuchen

    Marafiki’s merchandise comes from near and far, covers broad spectrum of categories BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Steel drum art from Haiti is among the items for sale. METUCHEN — As a store born of friends with a mission, Marafiki Fair Trade carries a fitting name. Marafiki, they note, is Swahili for “friends.” Metuchen residents Linda…

  • Clothing drive to benefit band program

    The John P. Stevens High School Band Parents will hold a clothing drive to benefit the band program 8-11:30 a.m. April 28 in the school parking lot, 855 Grove Ave., Edison. Donations of used clothing for children and adults, used linens, towels, tablecloths, shoes, pocketbooks, belts and stuffed animals will be accepted. All items should…

  • Police investigate luring report

    EDISON— Police are investigating a possible luring that occurred on Amboy Avenue on March 21. Police Lt. Sal Filannino said the two female victims, ages 12 and 13, told police they were walking on Amboy Avenue around 3:30 p.m. and passed an unknown individual near the Cheng’s Café. The individual, they said, made inappropriate sexual…

  • YMCA CEO looks back on a most fulfilling career

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer I twas the summer of 1971 when William J. Lovett found his passion. That passion was working with kids regardless of the pay. It all began when he took a counselor job at a summer day camp at the Summit YMCA on a total salary of $475 for eight weeks.…

  • Doctors to discuss heart disease at dinner

    “Dinner With the Doctor” will be presented 6-7:30 p.m. April 19 at LouCas restaurant, 9 Route 27, Edison. Dr. Tyrone Krause, a board-certified cardio-thoracic surgeon and chief of cardiac surgery at Jersey City Medial Center, and Dr. Vibhay Bhatnagar, a board-certified cardiologist, will discuss early diagnosis and the latest advancements in heart disease. To register,…

  • Just look under ‘p’ for power tools

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH My precious and dear father is a neat freak. He’s the sort of man who organizes his pencils according to the lead, and goes to painstaking efforts to consider color and length. The system that he uses for his books is so complex that it would take the FBI…

  • Up in the sky, it’s not a bird, or a plane — it’s The Donald

    CODA GREG BEAN There’s a funny battle going on in Colts Neck between the local zoning board and Donald Trump, he of the hair that looks like he’s wearing a weasel pelt on his noggin, dyed orange. Trump, who owns the Trump National Golf Club in that community, really, really wants to put in a…

  • Register with community notification system

    The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders recently introduced the Middlesex County Community Notification System, an incredibly robust communications tool that can send thousands of notifications within seconds via phone, text and e-mail messages. It proved to be an essential and most effective tool in times of emergency, not only for us as a county…

  • Edison mayor should practice what she preaches

    Edison Mayor Antonia Ricigliano exemplifies the lack of integrity that is so prevalent in our politics today. Mayor Ricigliano recently hosted a Women Empowerment event in which she superficially embraced this political cliché. Instead of orchestrating a grand public relations stunt, for an otherwise abysmal and incompetent term as mayor, she should recognize and adjust…

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