• Howell council votes to buy Global office building

    Municipal offices expected to be moved to Route 9 location By Christina Haberstroh HOWELL — In a 4-1 vote, the Howell Township Council has decided to execute a contract to purchase the Global office building on Route 9 north. Plans discussed by the council call for municipal offices to be moved out of Howell’s current…

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    The seventh annual Century for the Cure Bike Ride will be held Sept. 10. Registration is now open for the one-day 100- mile ride that will start at 6 a.m. at Camp Riverbend in Warren Township. Proceeds from the event will benefit cutting-edge research and programs at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. There are…

  • Softball is still fun for Edison’s Cassell

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Edison High School’s Valerie Cassell has traveled all around the country with the New Jersey Breakers’ U19 Gold Team. She led the Eagles to a 23-5 season last spring and established herself as one of the state’s best pitchers. Edison High School softball pitcher Valerie Cassell was told by her parents…

  • Trojans begin girls basketball season strong with just one returning starter

    Varsity Report BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Bishop George Ahr High School’s Nelson Thomas competes in the shot put during the Greater Middlesex Conference Relays held on Jan. 4 at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River. JEFF GRANIT staff Bishop Ahr This year’s Bishop George Ahr High School girls basketball team is proof…

  • 9/11 survivor, evacuator to speak at library

    The Edison Public Library, 340 Plainfield Ave., will host a presentation by Victor Guarnera, a survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks, 7 p.m. Sept. 12. Guarnera was the former chief technical adviser for security systems to the World Trade Center between 1992 and 2006. He assisted in the evacuation of 1…

  • ’Tis better to give

    Members of the Edison Township Education Association came together Dec. 12 at the Pines Manor in Edison for “An Evening of Giving,” a holiday party and philanthropic effort to support those affected by Sandy.

  • Shop at Macy’s and support the Edison Y

    The Edison Branch YMCA, 1775 Oak Tree Road, is offering Macy’s Shopping Passes. The passes, which cost $5 and are good until Aug. 27, give the purchaser 25 percent discounts at Macy’s stores or Macy’s online. Proceeds will benefit the Edison Branch YMCA. For more information, email [email protected] or call 732-494-3232.

  • New exhibit at Nails in the Wall Gallery

    Nails in the Wall Gallery, the Metuchen exhibition space sponsored by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, will begin its 2013 season 2-5 p.m. Jan. 19 with ‘Windows on Heaven: Contemporary Icons.” This exhibit will feature multiple works by six well-known iconographers, several who “write” religious icons in the very traditional Byzantine style, and others who, while…

  • Foundation offers 10 free trees to members

    The Arbor Day Foundation is inviting the public to become members and receive free trees. Everyone who joins the nonprofit foundation in August with a $10 donation will receive 10 free white flowering dogwood trees through the foundation’s Trees for America campaign. The trees will be shipped postage paid at the right time for planting…

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