• NBTHS recognized for character education

    North Brunswick Township High School has been recognized by the Character Education Partnership for 2011 Promising Practices. NBTHS was one of 20 New Jersey schools recognized for its character education practices for helping students in transition. Supervisors Kevin Farrell, who is the director of the Guidance Department, and Gina Marie Tischio, who is a student…

  • House OKs funds to help prevent veterans’ suicide

    E.B. family says strides are being made to fill gap in services for veterans BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Millions of dollars to help prevent suicide among U.S. soldiers and reservists is one step closer to being put in place. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) successfully offered an amendment in Congress to…

  • All ages invited to enter film festival

    Kidz Filmz, a new film festival and joint venture between Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan and the Garden State Film Festival, is seeking video submissions from the public. The films will be presented at Algonquin Arts Theatre in a festival-type event Jan. 27-29, 2012. Activities will also include a hands-on children’s workshop. Filmmakers of all…

  • Residents encouraged to eat locally grown food

    Via 45 and Elijah’s Promise participate in Farm to Table event BY KELLY CRAIG Correspondent SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Do you ever think about where the food you eat each day really came from? Elijah’s Promise Culinary School of New Brunswick and Via 45, a restaurant from Red Bank, came together to get the community thinking…

  • India celebration Aug. 21 at YMCA

    Indo-American Cultural Foundation of Central New Jersey (IACFNJ) and South Brunswick Family YMCA will celebrate India’s Independence Day 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 21 at the South Brunswick Family YMCA, Culver Road, Monmouth Junction. Admission is free to all attendees. Latika Dance Academy and Tina’s Magic Group of South Brunswick will perform traditional and…

  • Workshop on college financing at library

    The South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, will host Schorpp Capital Management’s workshop “Strategies to Get Your Children Through College Without Sacrificing Your Retirement” 6:45-8 p.m. Aug. 18. In this workshop, parents will learn:  How to increase tax deductions and tax credits;  How to pick colleges with the best financial…

  • Papi retires after 8 years as county health officer

    David A. Papi, director and health officer of the Middlesex County Public Health Department, has retired after more than 40 years with the department. Papi began his career with the health department as an inspector trainee, rising through the ranks as a sanitary inspector, senior inspector, principal inspector, chief inspector, deputy director and, finally, director…

  • First, it’s your soda, then they’ll come for the bacon

    CODA GREG BEAN Everybody has their own idea of what the fire pit down below might look like, and what we have to look forward to if we don’t mind our p’s and q’s while we’re on this mortal plane. In my imagined Hades, only the very bad go to the worst levels, and those…

  • Governor urged to sign bill to ban hydrofracking

    Opponents of the environmentally damaging practice now sweeping the country of hydrofracking shale deposits for natural gas were delighted last week when the N.J. Legislature voted to ban the practice. The vote, 33-1 in the Senate and 51-11 in the Assembly, showed such a rare bipartisan agreement so absent in today’s political discourse that many…

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