• Parent of alleged bully cites lack of transparency

    Takes issue with inability to obtain evidence after child is disciplined BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Steve knows his daughter isn’t perfect. She had been involved in an incident of bullying earlier in the year in her East Brunswick school, sending a few inappropriate text messages back and forth with a few other students one…

  • Restaurant event to support food bank

    A fundraiser to benefit the Old Bridge Food Bank will be held Jan. 18 at Texas Roadhouse, Gateway Shopping Plaza, 1000 Route 9, Old Bridge. The restaurant will donate 10 percent of each supporter’s check to the food bank. A collection box for canned goods will be set up in the restaurant lobby; individuals who…

  • CASA will honor children’s advocates

    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Middlesex County (CASA) will host its firstVolunteer Recognition Reception Jan. 19 at Sayreville Middle School, 800 Washington Road. CASA recruits and trains community volunteers to advocate for and work one-on-one with abused or neglected children. Volunteers “speak up” for the children in the court and child-welfare systems, making sure that…

  • Blood drive planned for Jan. 14 at church

    St. Thomas the Apostle Church, in cooperation with Knights of Columbus Council No. 4815, will hold a Winter Blood Drive 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 14 in the parish auditorium, Route 18, Old Bridge. Donors must be between the ages of 16 and 75, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in reasonably good health.

  • Church deacons set Spaghetti Dinner

    The First Presbyterian Church of South Amboy Board of Deacons will sponsor a Spaghetti Dinner 5-8 p.m. Jan. 28 at the church, 150 N. Broadway. The dinner, sit-down or takeout, will include spaghetti, bread, salad and dessert. All proceeds will go to the church food pantry and to help families in need in the community.…

  • 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…

  • Keep cans, bottles off streets, highways

    I t is very disgraceful to throw used cans and bottles out of our car windows and onto our highways, streets, public parks, bus stops or train stations. I urge all adults and children to keep the empty cans and bottles until they find a place where there is a recycling container to dispose of…

  • 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 PetAdoption 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 River,…

  • 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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