• NAMI NJ celebrates heroes

    NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NJ has launched its 2012 Celebrating Our Heroes campaign to acknowledge and celebrate the heroes who serve our country, who battle mental illness and who fight for their loved one’s recovery. The public is invited to submit the names and/or pictures of heroes to be featured on its website…

  • Exhibition, rock band at Zimmerli on Feb. 1

    Artist Rachel Perry Welty’s first solo exhibition, “24/7,” will open during Art After Hours on Feb. 1 at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. The evening features an exhibition tour, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The artist will discuss her work from 6:15 to 7 p.m., and local rock band Cotton will perform from 7:30…

  • Tourism at ‘ground zero,’ then and now

    DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS LIZZ DINNIGAN The morning the Towers fell, I was commuting from Brooklyn to my east midtown office building. At the time I was working as a staff travel writer – covering beats ranging from the cruise industry to New York – for a weekly trade magazine targeting travel agents. At 8:46 a.m., while…

  • Boy Scout Troop 90 to hold open house

    Boy Scout Troop 90 of Kendall Park will hold its annual open house 7:30-9 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Sand Hill Presbyterian Church, 57 Sand Hill Road in Kendall Park. The open house provides an opportunity for young men ages 11 through 18, and their parents, to see Troop 90’s Scouts in action. The prospective…

  • Metuchen cultural hotspot will close at month’s end

    Raconteur has served as far more than a bookstore during its seven-year run BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent The community will bid farewell Jan. 31 to what has since 2004 been a cultural institution in the borough: The Raconteur. Owner Alex Dawson said his plan was to take on this endeavor — owning the bookstore that…

  • VFW to host chicken parm dinner Saturday

    Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9111, 11 Henderson Road, Kendall Park, will host a Chicken Parm Dinner Fund Raiser 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21. The cost is $12 for adults, $7 for children ages 6-12, and free for kids age 5 and younger. Dinner includes chicken parmigiana, spaghetti, salad, rolls, dessert and beverages. All donations…

  • Blood, platelet, bone marrow drive Jan. 22.

    Hugs for Brady Foundation will hold a blood, platelet and bone marrow donor drive 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan 22 at ConfectionatelyYours, 3391 Route 27, Franklin Park. To schedule an appointment, contact Rosana of TheAmerican Red Cross at 215- 908-5184 or [email protected].

  • Middlesex sheriff hires officers laid off by police departments

    Middlesex County Sheriff Mildred Scott has announced that she has hired 13 police officers who had been laid off by the Paterson and Newark police departments. “We were fortunate to be able to replace many of our retired officers with well-qualified officers who were unemployed due to layoffs in Newark and Paterson,” Scott said. “Because…

  • Zimmerli highlights revelations in Soviet nonconformist art

    “Counterform 1959” oil on canvas by Valery Yurlov The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will continue its series of one-person shows devoted to Soviet nonconformist artists with “In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov,” on view through June 3. Yurlov stands out as one of the earliest proponents of…

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