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Matt Wong to perform at Brewed Awakening
Matt Wong will be appearing at the Brewed Awakening Coffee Shop, 417 Main St., Metuchen, 7 p.m. Dec. 17 to celebrate the holidays. Wong’s debut album, “Fly Me to the Moon,” will be sold during the show. For more information, email [email protected] or visit http://mattwong.webs.com.
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Police: Woman entered Edison health facility, took cash and ran
EDISON — Police are investigating a robbery that took place at the Hua-Kang Health Center on Plainfield Avenue. The robbery occurred around 8:50 p.m. on Oct. 30, police said. Police Lt. Sal Filannino said a 50- year-old Edison resident was working at the facility when a woman walked through the front door yelling, “Open, open,…
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Flapjack Breakfast will benefit SPCA
The Middlesex County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will hold a Flapjack Fundraiser Breakfast 8- 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 at Applebee’s of Milltown, 324 Ryders Lane. Tickets cost $10 per person. To reserve or for more information, call SPCA 732- 433-2017.
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Talk on Civil War women spies, soldiers
The Metuchen-Edison Historical Society and the Borough Improvement League are co-sponsoring a program presented by Trish Chambers on “Women Soldiers and Spies of the Civil War” at 7:30 Nov. 11. Learn about the American women who chose to become soldiers and spies during the Civil War, why they selected this path, and how they were…
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Holiday gifts sought for foster children
Lisa DeMarco and Danielle DeMarco of The Bird House, East Brunswick, in conjunction with Middlesex County Foster and Adoptive Family Services (FAFS), are sponsoring a drive to collect new holiday gifts for youngsters in the foster-care system in Middlesex County. New toys, books, clothing, gift cards, etc., for youngsters from infancy-age 18 are sought. Donations…
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Setting the stage
Members of the John P. Stevens Theater Company act out a scene from Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” during a Nov. 4 dress rehearsal. The students will perform the show at 7 p.m. Nov. 17-19 at the school, located at 855 Grove Ave., Edison. Tickets are $7 in advance and $9 at the door. Call Darlene…
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Metuchen board takes extra time in superintendent search process
METUCHEN — The Board of Education has extended its deadline for finding a new superintendent of schools. The board had set Nov. 1 as a deadline to select a successor to replace outgoing Superintendent Theresa Pollifrone-Sinatra. However, the board currently does not have a replacement named. “We set Nov. 1 as a goal that would…
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County opens new care facility opens in Old Bridge
Officials tout $47 million facility’s technology, benefit to twp. BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The county unveiled the newest addition to its family of longterm care facilities, opening the doors of the Roosevelt Care Center at Old Bridge with a ribbon-cutting celebration Oct. 26. “Today is the beginning of the next step…
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We’ve got to act before lives are lost in Jersey
CODA GREG BEAN Here’s an opportunity alert for the state lawmakers in Trenton who are always looking for new ways to protect us from ourselves here in The Nanny State. It seems like every year they pass a bunch of new laws to prevent us from injuring ourselves by our own stupidity — like the…
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