• BLOOPERS

    ‘Bare with us …’ Uh, no thank you. ADELE YOUNG Every new year, we like to disclose some of the amusing constructions that came across our desks during the previous 12 months. Thank goodness, most of the gaffes in this column were caught in time and did not make it into one of our weekly…

  • Photography contest under way in M’town

    The Milltown Historical Society and the Milltown Public Library are conducing the second annual Milltown Photography Contest . Applications and more information are available at the library. Photographs must be of Milltown and taken inMilltown, no matter the subject, be no larger than 8-by-10 inches and either framed or mounted on mat board 8.5-by-11 inches.…

  • Civil War discussion group to meet Jan. 10

    The Gen. G.W. Taylor Civil War Round Table, a discussion group for those interested in the American Civil War, will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the Red Mill Museum Village, 56 Main St., Clinton, at 7 p.m. in the upstairs meeting room. The program will feature Buster Keaton’s “The General,” a silent movie focused…

  • S.R. Office on Aging sets events, programs

    The South River Office on Aging/Senior Center, 55 Reid St., offers a variety of activities 9:45 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. The January schedule is as follows:  fitness room, Mondays-Fridays, 9:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m.;  membership photo identification cards, daily, noon-2 p.m.;  light-chair exercise classes, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.;  haircuts, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.;…

  • No-kill animal shelter in danger of closing

    Sayreville shelter reeling from loss of contracts, increasing number of drop-offs Above: Jon Halmi takes chocolate Labrador receiver Mr. Bojangles for a walk at the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center on Dec. 22. The no-kill shelter is in danger of closing after losing its municipal contracts to a new facility in Helmetta this year. Below: Volunteer…

  • DIY authors realize challenges, rewards

    Many local writers take self-published route BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Uta Burke of East Brunswick self-published a young-adult paranormal novel, “Immortal Link,” which finds a teenager in Jim Thorpe, Pa., taking revenge on her attacker and receiving more justice than she thought humanly possible. Soccer is kind of Ken Jones’ thing. The Old Bridge…

  • Registration open for E.B. garden plots

    East Brunswick residents are invited to join the award-winning East Brunswick Community Garden. Gardeners grown their own vegetables, herbs and flowers on leased plots and enjoy produce from the garden’s shared area. Registration is now open to new gardeners for 2012. The cost is $10 per plot, and there is a limit of one plot…

  • Gluten-free demo set for Jamesburg library

    The Friends of the Jamesburg Public Library will sponsor a Live & Love Gluten-Free Food Demonstration on Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. The food-tasting demo will be held at the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, 175 Gatzmer Ave. Local resident Patricia Hetzell will discuss celiac disease and offer samplings of gluten-free recipes she has prepared to…

  • 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 analytical abstraction…

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