• Team to sponsor Holiday Bake Sale

    The championship East Brunswick Baseball League 12U Travel Team will hold a Holiday Bake Sale 5-9 p.m. Dec. 19 and 20 at the East Brunswick Transportation Center, Route 18 and Tices Lane. The boys will represent the East Brunswick community July 7-13 in the Cooperstown Dream Park summer tournament. Teams from across NorthAmerica are due…

  • Lessons, carols festival set at M’town church

    The United Methodist Church at Milltown will offer its annual Traditional Festival of Lessons and Carols 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the church, 47 N. Main St. The church’s Sanctuary Choir and Early Music Consort will present a program featuring works by Handel, Praetorius, Rutter and others. Admission is free of charge. The public is…

  • Local officials debate bill that would move BOE elections to November

    Politics, voting on the school budget are topics of discussion BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Moving school board elections from April to November has been a long-discussed statewide proposal, with advocates and detractors equally firm on their positions. BillA-4394/S-3148, currently making it through the Legislature, would grant local school boards that option, and the…

  • Traditional holiday services set at church

    Trinity Presbyterian Church, 367 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, will host its traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7 p.m. Dec. 24, followed by a Christmas service at midnight. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call the church at 732-257-6636.

  • Dance troupe to offer ‘Holiday in Birdland’

    The Main Street Theatre Company will present Derling Dance Arts in “A Holiday in Birdland,” featuring holiday favorites in song and dance, 8 p.m. Dec. 16 and 17 and 6 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Main Street Theatre, 3018 Bordentown Ave., Parlin section of Sayreville. The performance is designed to offer a winter wonderland throwback…

  • Hanukkah festival scheduled for Dec. 22

    The annual Torah Links of Middlesex County Community Hanukkah Extravaganza is set for 6:30 p.m. Dec. 22 at Churchill Junior High School, 18 Norton Road, East Brunswick. The event will feature entertainment by John Cassidy, comedian, magician and balloon artist; a hot dairy buffet with fresh latkes; a giant menorah lighting; face-painting; giveaways and raffles.…

  • Gunkelman to speak at Hadassah meeting

    Nancy Gunkelman, a member of the Monroe Township CulturalArts Commission and a professional artist who has exhibited domestically and internationally, will be the featured speaker at the next general meeting of theAlisa Chapter of Hadassah set for 7:15 p.m. at Beit Shalom Synagogue, Concordia Shopping Center, Perrineville Road, Monroe. Gunkelman has spent many years as…

  • Menorah lighting planned in Monroe

    AGrand Hanukkah Menorah Lighting is set for 4-4:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at State Park, Perrineville Road, Monroe, across from Stop & Shop. The event will feature latkes and hot cocoa. For more information, email [email protected] or call 732-656-1616.

  • fundraisers 

    Dec. 15  Narrated Horse-Drawn Holiday Carriage Ride Tours of Historic Jamesburg, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, the Jamesburg Historical Society and the Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition, starting every 15 minutes 7-9 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg, Gatzmer Avenue, corner of Church Street. Free hot chocolate, smoked-tomato soup, mulled apple…

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