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Teen book club at Metuchen Library
The Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., will host a book club for interested high school students who are Metuchen residents. The group will meet 7:30-8:30 p.m. July 6 and July 20 to discuss Carlos Eire’s “Waiting for Snow in Havana,” a National Book Award winner. The book club will include discussion and varied activities…
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Harry Potter film fest and extravaganza
The Metuchen Library will present a Harry Potter Extravaganza at 2 p.m. July 1 for Metuchen residents who will be entering grades four through nine. The event will begin with a trivia game that covers all seven books; participants will compete in teams of mixed ages. Other activities will include divination, a craft, and a…
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Concert to aid young woman’s RSD fight
Abenefit rock concert to help raise money for Brittany Fields of West Windsor, a young woman fighting reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), a debilitating and progressive disease of the autonomic nervous system, is set for 8 p.m. July 7 in the Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. RSD is…
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Metuchen eyes $2 million in purchases, improvements
Parking deck, new vehicles, road, sidewalk and sewer improvements in works BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent METUCHEN — Several borough projects will move forward thanks to the governing body’s recent approval of a $1.97 million bond ordinance. The Borough Council authorized bonds totaling $944,760 and grants with a total of $978,100 from the state Department of…
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Scavenger hunt for young adults at library
The Teen Advisory Board of the Metuchen Public Library will host a scavenger hunt 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 25 for Metuchen residents who will be entering grades 6-12. The scavenger hunt will begin in the Young Adult section of the library, 480 Middlesex Ave. Participants are free to hunt the public spaces of…
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Run for fun
Carl Anderson and his son Kyle, 5, of North Brunswick, make their way to the finish line during the annual Fuce 5K Metuchen Family Fun Run on June 18. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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If I didn’t say it before, Pop, thanks for the cheeseburgers
CODA GREG BEAN On Father’s Day, my boys took me out for a wonderful brunch, and we passed a few fine hours laughing, and planning for upcoming, happy events. I consider myself blessed to have such fine sons. But I also spent a lot of the day thinking about my own father, who died in…
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State has obligation to all, not just union workers
I agree with Sen. Barbara Buono that the public employee pension and health care issues must be separated. However, I believe that as an employer, and the largest one in the state, the state of New Jersey has the right to determine how much it will participate in and how much the public employee will…
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Property-tax-rebate limits hurt most vulnerable
New Jersey’s state budget for 2012 is up for debate, and Gov. Christie’s proposal does not look good for us seniors. It not only continues to block new applicants to the Property Tax Reimbursement program (PTR), but it also caps reimbursement payments for 2010 to recipients’ 2008 level. Although the PTR was designed to protect…
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