• Auxiliary schedules Valentine’s brunch

    The Raritan Bay Medical Center Old Bridge Auxiliary will hold a Valentine’s Day Friends and Family Brunch noon-3 p.m. Feb. 13 at Buttonwood Manor, Matawan. Cost is $27 per adult, $13.50 per youngster age 6-12; children age 5 and under will be admitted free of charge. A gift basket auction and 50/50 raffle tickets will…

  • O.B. Public Schools to hold registration

    Kindergarten registration for the 2011-12 school year at Old Bridge Township Public Schools will take place during the month of March. Students entering kindergarten must be 5 years old on or before Oct. 1, 2011. The following items must be presented when registering:  child’s original birth certificate or baptismal certificate;  proof of immunization,…

  • Middle-schoolers’ pet project: Helping animals

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KEPA members Meghan Moore (l-r), Olga Latosh, Hannah Nale, Morgan Santoro and Allee Errico sell goods to benefit animal shelters. One visit to the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center for Allee Errico, now an eighth-grader at South River Middle School, and she just had to do something. “I was looking at…

  • Ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend?

    CODA GREG BEAN “When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.” Anonymous T here’s nothing like surgery to make you humble and disabuse you of the notion that there is any aspect of your life that is private or…

  • Help available for young people in abusive relationships

    February brings to mind Valentine’s Day and love. And love brings to mind dating and relationships. But what if a relationship is not based on love, but control and abuse? And what if the person in that relationship is too young or naïve to see what’s happening? Many relationships (too many in fact) fall into…

  • Gov. must not demean those who serve, protect

    My wife and I have been supporters of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) since December 1988, the beginning of this very worthy project. To my mind, there is no finer or respectable way to again say, “Goodbye and thank you for your sacrifice and devotion to duty, our fallen brothers and sisters…

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    Dancers from the youth Latin class at Huaxia East Brunswick Chinese School perform “This Time for Africa” during a Chinese New Year Celebration Jan. 29 at Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick. More photos at gmnews.com. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Vendors, shoppers invited to craft show

    The St. Thomas the Apostle HSA annual Spring Craft and More Show is set for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 5 in the school auditorium, Route 18 south, Old Bridge. Vendors and shoppers are sought. For a vendor application, log on to the school Web site at www.saintthomasob.com and click on the HSA tab. For more…

  • Hearing loss to be topic at meeting

    Christie Glick, an audiologist at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Reformed Church Home Caregivers Support Group set for 2- 3:15 p.m. Feb. 15 at the facility, 1990 Route 18 north. Topic will be “Hearing Loss and the Role of the Audiologist.” Participants will…

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