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Folk Art Craft Show planned for Oct. 21-23
A Country Folk Art Craft Show will be held 5-9 p.m. Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 22, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 23 at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center, 97 Sunfield Ave., Edison. The event will feature handmade home, holiday and gift items by artisans from across the United States. Admission is…
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Brunswick Women to host Oct. 20 dinner
The Brunswick Women’s Connection will sponsor a Loft Fashion Show Dinner Party 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at The Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Guest speaker Dawn Loken will discuss “Freedom From Bitterness.” Fall fashions will be presented by Ann Taylor Loft, Shoppes at North Brunswick. Nonperishable food items will be collected for a local…
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Cheer Booster Club sets comedy night
The East Brunswick Cheer Booster Club will hold a comedy night fundraiser from 7 to 11 p.m. Oct. 29 to benefit the East Brunswick High School cheerleading teams. The event, featuring comedian Paul Venier, will take place at the East Brunswick VFWpost, 485 Cranbury Road. Tickets are $40 and include dinner, which is being provided…
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Vendor spots open at Jamesburg Fall Fest
The Jamesburg Fall Festival will be held noon-5 p.m. Oct. 23 on West Railroad Avenue. Organizers hope to feature children’s play equipment, pumpkin painting, a scarecrow contest, food vendors, animal adoption booths, jewelry, crafts, music, a “Kids Land” and more. Vendors are sought. Applications, along with checks or money orders for booth spaces, should be…
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Teams invited to basketball tourney
The Immaculate Conception Youth Organization (ICYO) of Spotswood will host a boys and girls Thanksgiving Basketball Tournament Nov. 4-22 in the Immaculate Conception School gymnasium, 23 Manalapan Road, Spotswood. Teams are sought to participate. Tournament divisions are third and fourth grades, fifth and sixth grades, seventh and eighth grades. Entry fee includes a two-game guarantee.…
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Candlelight Tours on tap at cemetery
The East Brunswick Museum Corporation will host its annual Candlelight Tours Oct. 15 and 16 at the Historic Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Old Bridge Turnpike and Gunia Street, East Brunswick. Tours will be ongoing every 15 minutes, 5-8:30 p.m. Costumed re-enactors in historic dress will participate over the two nights, with displays and a narrative depicting…
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Monroe candidates discuss property taxes, transparency
Voters will elect mayor, two council members on Nov. 8 BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — In just over three weeks, residents will go to the polls to fill the mayor’s seat and two positions on the Township Council. With the Nov. 4 election fast approaching, Democratic Mayor Richard Pucci and Republican challenger Carlos…
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CODA
They’re mad, and they’re not gonna take it anymore GREG BEAN So, the Occupy Wall Street protests spilled over into New Jersey in a small way last week, after a hundred or so activists turned up in Jersey City, and fewer than 50 showed up in Trenton on Thursday to spread their amorphous message of…
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election letters
The Oct. 27 issue will be the last edition to feature letters discussing candidates in the Nov. 8 general election. Letters for this issue may be emailed to [email protected] by Oct. 21. There is no guarantee that all election letters will run. The only election-related letters we would accept for the Nov. 3 edition are…
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