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Zimmerli to sponsor trip to Yale museums
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, will offer a May 17 trip to Yale University, New Haven, Conn., to visit two of the university’s museums. There will be stops at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), which houses the largest collection of British art outside the…
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School will offer May 15 open house
Sacred Heart School, 229 Cedar St., South Amboy, will hold an open house 11 a.m.-1 p.m. May 15. Visitors are invited to tour the school and to meet the principal and Sacred Heart parents, alumni and HSAmembers. Arepresentative of Creative Kids, the school’s pre-kindergarten, also will be on hand to answer questions and offer information…
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Area residents walk to take suicide out of the shadows
Overnight event set for June 4-5 in NYC BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Next month, around 2,000 people will take a few thousand steps toward helping bring suicide prevention and awareness to the forefront of metropolitanarea residents’ consciousness. The Out of the Darkness Overnight walk, an 18-mile journey from sunset to sunrise June 4-5, is…
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St. Stan’s students explore field of undersea research
BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE —Sixth-grade students at St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic School got the chance to interact with the rest of the world without ever leaving their seats on May 4. The students participated in a live science webcast with Dr. Robert Ballard, founder and chairman of the nonprofit JASON Project, as well…
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Did voters have change of heart with school budgets?
CODA GREG BEAN A funny thing happened when they finished counting the votes in the April 27 school budget elections — most of the budgets passed. And that is almost unheard of in New Jersey, where voting down the proposed school budget every year is a better sign of spring than the arrival of the…
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Youth hotline gives nonjudgmental support
Most of us would not immediately know what to do if we suspected a child was being abused or neglected. The state of uncertainty and concern can be overwhelming. Many are reluctant to get involved in other families’ lives and the options seem extreme — don’t act on your suspicions or report your concerns. But…
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N.J. is first to require ski helmets for minors
The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey applauds Gov. Chris Christie and the state Legislature for creating a law that requires anyone younger than 18 years old to wear a properly fitted helmet while downhill skiing or snowboarding. This law, which will be in effect for the 2011-2012 ski season, makes New Jersey the first…
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Feral-cat issue will deteriorate without TNR
I t amazes me that the members of the Sayreville Borough Council are worried about feral cats when they are the same people who turned down an offer for a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program. Too bad these uninformed people, including the mayor, made a very poor decision not to get help from Whiskers Rescue, Sayreville, regarding…
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Concerned about twp.’s financial future
The present administration and Democratic Township Council majority are minimizing the detrimental situation we as a township are facing. The use of nonrecurring revenues year after year continued against the protests of the Republican council members. The Republicans’ input had been virtually ignored, and now we are left with a very critical financial future for…
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