• Nativity of Our Lord will host blood drive

    New Jersey Blood Services will conduct a New Year’s Blood Drive 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at Nativity of Our Lord Church, 185 Applegarth Road, Monroe. Donors must be at least 17 years of age (16-year-olds need a parent’s permission letter), weigh at least 110 pounds and may not have donated blood within the last…

  • Steeber, Democratic team get to work in Milltown

    BY JASON COHEN Correspondent Mayor Eric Steeber MILLTOWN — A new year always brings change, not necessarily good or bad, but there is always change. With 2011 bringing a conclusion to Republican Gloria Bradford’s 14 years as mayor, the borough enters 2012 with a new Democratic-controlled government. With the NewYear celebration behind them, numerous residents…

  • DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS

    The stars are aligned LIZZ DINNIGAN I n my youth, my family spent summers at the Pine Knoll bungalow colony in Monticello, N.Y., a small town in the heart of the Catskills’ Borscht Belt. It was the late ’70s, and we had tremendous freedom to run around barefoot and scamper about our private community of…

  • Tickets available for Harlem Wizards game

    The Immaculate Conception Athletic Association will host an exhibition basketball game featuring the Harlem Wizards vs. the Immaculate Conception Big Dogs in an evening of “trick hoops and alley-oops” beginning at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Immaculate Conception Youth Center Gymnasium, South Street, Spotswood. Doors will open at 6 pm. Advance tickets cost $9…

  • Library conducting Food-4-Fines Amnesty

    The Jamesburg Public Library, 229 Gatzmer Ave., is offering a Food-4-Fines Amnesty during the month of January. Library patrons may bring in one can of unexpired food for each $1 or less in fines and have the charge erased from their record. The offer pertains only to late fees, not to lost or damaged books,…

  • Tickets on sale for Jan. 20 Tricky Tray

    The East Brunswick Youth Council will present its fourth annual Tricky Tray and GiftAuction beginning at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at Hammarskjold Middle School, 200 Rues Lane, East Brunswick. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for viewing. The event will feature prizes including an iPad 2, an LCD HDTV, an Xbox 360 with Kinect, a…

  • Towns should stand behind no-kill shelter

    Why? Why would local towns take their support away from a wonderful no-kill shelter such as the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center (SPAC) and instead give it to a kill shelter? Without this support, the Sayreville shelter will be forced to close, and no animal will stand a chance at life. Towns such as Sayreville, South…

  • Resident fully supports senior-care facility

    I own the property on Schoolhouse Road adjacent to the proposed location of “Parker at Monroe,” a facility that would provide long-term care services for area seniors. I am proud to support this project and believe it would be an excellent addition to the neighborhood. As the current stewards of our land, it is our…

  • Much remains to be done to realize King’s dream

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had he lived, would have celebrated his 84th birthday this year. The vast political changes that have taken place since his assassination in 1968 are a testimony to the work of Dr. King and other activists of the modern Civil Rights movement. One might even argue that American society has…

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