• ‘Legend of Bully Jo’

    Students from Judd Elementary School in North Brunswick perform “The Legend of Bully Jo” at North Brunswick Township High School on Dec. 2. Taubenslag Productions, of North Brunswick, produced and rehearsed the play with the students. SCOTT FRIEDMAN First- and second-grade students from Judd Elementary School in North Brunswick perform “The Legend of Bully Jo”…

  • Clarinetist to bring swing to Jazz Cafe

    Clarinetist David Aaron will perform at the South Brunswick Jazz Café on Dec. 9. The concert starts at 8 p.m. in the Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center at the South Brunswick Municipal Complex, 540 Ridge Road. Aaron’s library of arrangements includes the most requested hits of Miller, Dorsey, Goodman, Shaw and other swing-era…

  • Chinese story time Dec. 17 at S.B. Library

    The South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, will hold a Chinese story time for children ages 4 to 8 Dec. 17 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The presentation will be in both English and Cantonese. It is a collaborative program by teachers from the Chinese Heritage School of New Jersey. To…

  • Christmas carols at Abundant Life in S.B.

    Abundant Life Christian Center, 2245 Route 130, South Brunswick, will hold holiday festivities featuring stories and carols this month. “The Great Christmas Giveaway/Cricket County Christmas” will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. A candlelight service will take place at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, and a morning service will be 10 a.m. Sunday,…

  • No. Brunswick teens invited to leadership conference

    Sophomore and seventh-grade girls adopt community project, attend peer event NORTH BRUNSWICK — Female teenagers in town are being empowered during the Young Women Leadership Conference. The North Brunswick Municipal Alliance Committee presented the first of three workshops on Nov. 22. Fifty students visited the municipal building for a conference dedicated to Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle…

  • A misguided effort to protect the farm team

    CODA GREG BEAN I f you see stories on the news about long lines at the gas pumps around Washington, D.C., this holiday season, it won’t be because they’re short on gas, or that prices have dropped to record lows. It will be because certain folks at the U.S. Department of Labor have stopped by…

  • Donate to those in need, make a ‘newsworthy’ difference

    I t seems lately that the media is quite “occupied” by the Occupy Wall Street story and is neglecting the important stories of the people in the region who are still experiencing the effects of Hurricane Irene, of job loss and of poverty. Gone from headlines and opening stories are the feel-good stories of man…

  • Tearing apart immigrant families not an option

    (An open letter to Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republican presidential candidates) M r. Speaker, I have seen and heard your responses to the immigration situation at the most recent debate and those of Gov. Perry at an earlier debate. I have also heard the criticisms cast at both of you…

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