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Community theater: playing nearby tonight
BY GREGORY D.V. HOLMES Correspondent The curtain opens. Location: your home. Time: the weekend. Family member No. 1: What do you want to do tonight? Narrator: How about dinner and a show? Family member No. 2: We went to the movies last week. Narrator: Nice, but I am talking about community theater live on stage…
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Church panel to show βToy Story 3β outdoors
The St. Ambrose Improvements Committee Drive-In Movie, featuring a screening of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3” (rated G), is set for July 29 in the church parking lot, 81 Throckmorton Lane, Old Bridge. The parking lot will open at 7 p.m. Cartoons will be shown beginning at 8 p.m. “Toy Story 3” will be screened at…
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Rock Solid Mud Run scheduled for Aug. 6
“Unleash Your Alter Ego,” a Rock Solid Mud Run all-terrain adventure, is set for Aug. 6 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown. Participants, who will master obstacles along either a 5- or 10-mile course, will run, swim, crawl, climb or jump while covering four motocross tracks, hundreds of acres of woods, three lakes and…
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Maintenance repairs under way on Cheesequake Creek bridge
OLD BRIDGE — Maintenance repairs have begun on the Route 35 lift bridge over Cheesequake Creek connecting Old Bridge and Sayreville. The state Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the start of work on July 18. The repairs to the bridge deck joints are designed to address conditions that led to the bascule lift-bridge becoming stuck…
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Greek carnival set for Aug. 3-7 at church
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church will sponsor its Carnival by the Bay 5-10 p.m. Aug. 3, 4 and 5, and 2-10 p.m. Aug. 6 and 7 on the church grounds, Sadowski Parkway andWisteria Street, PerthAmboy, on the waterfront. Event highlights will include rides, games and authentic Greek cuisine such as gyros, souvlaki and loukoumades (Greek…
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Library to benefit from sale of wedding gowns
BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Models get set to film a commercial displaying the wedding dresses that were donated recently to the East Brunswick Public Library. The 35 dresses will be auctioned to benefit the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit group that raises funds for library needs and functions. JEFF GRANIT staff EAST BRUNSWICK…
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No words to describe pain of loss
GIRL TALK CLARE MARIE CELANO Life, as we know it, can change in a minute. Someone gets married, someone gets divorced. Someone says you’re hired, someone says you’re fired. Someone is born, someone dies. And these events change you. The passing of my 86-year-old mother on June 18, two months before her 87th birthday, has…
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Donors sought for July 24 blood drive
St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus will hold its annual blood drive 8 a.m.-2 p.m. July 24 in the auditorium at St. Ambrose School, Throckmorton Lane, Old Bridge. Donors are needed. Blood supplies are at their lowest during the summer months. For more information, call Richard Dufresne at 732-322-9477.
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Reformed Church Home plans golf event
The Reformed Church Home, Old Bridge, will hold its 20th Anniversary Golf Classic Aug. 22 at Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Drive, Monroe. The fundraiser will feature an awards luncheon, prizes and a silent auction. Registration fee is $195. For more information and to reserve, call 732-607-9230 or log on to www.reformedchurchhome.com.
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