• Alumni band to make ‘Merry Music’ Dec. 17

    The Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony will present “A Concert of Merry Music” 8 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass College campus of Rutgers University, George Street, New Brunswick. Admission is free of charge. The public is invited to attend. For more information, log on to www.ruaws.org.

  • Local family asks to preserve history of former sod farm

    Silver Hollow replaced the Kartikis property along Route 130; family asks for sign BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The family of a local farmer is asking for a sign to be posted at the former location of the farm. Peter Kartikis spoke on behalf of his family during the Dec. 5 Township…

  • ‘Music of the Night’

    Members of the Crossroads South Middle School symphonic band perform for an audience gathered at the “Music for a Winter’s Evening” concert, held at South Brunswick High School in Monmouth Junction on Dec. 6. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Sixth-grader Jeffrey Penney, along with other members of the Crossroads South Middle School concert orchestra, waits…

  • Army 2nd Infantry Division vets sought

    The 2nd (Indianhead) Division Association is searching for anyone who ever served in the Army’s famous 2nd Infantry Division at anytime. For information about the national association and its annual reunion in Reno, Nev., to be held Aug. 23-27, 2012, visit www.2ida.org or contact the association’s secretary-treasurer, Bob Haynes, at [email protected] or 224-225-1202.

  • Jewish group seeks Soviet immigrants

    The Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey has been awarded a grant to develop a traveling exhibit and record oral histories of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant provided…

  • Scholarship offered for equine studies

    The New Jersey EquineAdvisory Board is offering a $1,000 scholarship to help 4-H and FFA members, as well as any young adult that is a member of a New Jersey equine organization represented on the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board, pursue their equine activities. The Sara Dubinin Scholarship, in memory of Sara Dubinin, who loved…

  • Presenting the presents

    Linwood Middle School Student Council members Naomi Gobena (l-r), Sra Kakumanu and Berny Pereda wrap gifts for families in need on Dec. 6. The Student Council, along with their advisers Christina DeBari and Nicole Stewart, have continued an annual tradition of working with the Point Community Church of North Brunswick to adopt local families for…

  • Woe at U.S. Postal Service is being felt in Milltown

    CODA GREG BEAN A s you’re listening to all the gloom and doom stories about what will happen next year when the U.S. Postal Service reduces its services even further to save money, here are two pre-cutback vignettes fromthe post office this holiday season, courtesy of the East Brunswick Post Office. Scene One: There are…

  • Officials must take action on dangerous intersection

    What is Middlesex County or East Brunswick Township waiting for? How many accidents, or perhaps deaths, are required to have something done? How long do we have to wait for something — anything — to be done? When will enforcement of existing laws or ordinances begin? These and other questions need answers, and need them…

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