• Shabbat Dinner and Service announced

    Shabbat Dinner and Service announced

    Temple Emanu-El, 100 James St., Edison, will hold a Community Shabbat Dinner at 6:30 p.m. March 18. The Shabbat service will begin at 8 p.m. The cost is $20 per person, $12 for children.  Must RSVP by March 14 to be admitted into the dinner. For more information, contact Dara Winston at 732-549-4442, ext. 4.

  • Edison Earth Day Celebration set for April 24

    Edison Earth Day Celebration set for April 24

    The 2016 Edison Earth Day Celebration will be co-presented by the Township of Edison, Edison Township Environmental Commission (ETEC), Edison Clean Communities Program and the Edison Sustainable Jersey Green Team (ESJGT) from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on April 24. The free, outdoor, green/sustainable event will be staged at Papaianni Park, 100 Municipal Boulevard, Edison. (Rain Date:…

  • Meeting set for March 15 in West Long Branch

    Meeting set for March 15 in West Long Branch

    The Family Addiction Network will hold its monthly meeting at the West Long Branch Community Center from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. on March 15. “Enabling the Enabler: How to set boundaries, find and accept peace and joy in their own life, and develop normalcy amongst the chaos” will be presented by Jackie Adams, MA, LPC, LMHC,…

  • Howell zoners approve LA Fitness center

    Howell zoners approve LA Fitness center

    By Jennifer Ortiz Staff Writer HOWELL – The Zoning Board of Adjustment has granted preliminary and final major site plan approval to a shopping center that will include an LA Fitness gym and two retail shopping buildings on Lanes Mill Road. The zoning board members voted on the application following the conclusion of testimony at…

  • Spotswood hopes to surpass seed in sectional tourney

    Spotswood hopes to surpass seed in sectional tourney

    By Jimmy Allinder Spotswood High School boys basketball coach Steve Mate doesn’t believe the NJSIAA power point system is 100 percent accurate when it comes to state tournament seeds. With the Central Jersey, Group II sectional underway, his team hopes to prove that point. Despite a 21-5 overall record, including a Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC)…

  • New Egypt supporting Rinaldi as he battles Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    New Egypt supporting Rinaldi as he battles Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    By Wayne Witkowski A unified show of support from New Egypt High School’s boys basketball team, the school and the community has bolstered one of the Warriors’ players in his fight against Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Anthony Rinaldi was fulfilling his hopes for a strong season in the starting lineup as one of the team’s top scorers,…

  • Performers of the Week

    Performers of the Week

    Champions were crowned in what was one of the biggest and busiest weekends of the 2015-16 winter scholastic season. Here are some of those champions. Colts Neck High School’s Jordan Brannan ran the state’s fastest 3,200-meters this winter when he won the NJSIAA Indoor Track and Field Meet of Champions race in 9:14.94. The MOC…

  • Four Jackson wrestlers move on to Atlantic City

    Four Jackson wrestlers move on to Atlantic City

    By Wayne Witkowski Matt McGowan at 126 pounds ended Jackson Memorial High School’s dry spell of three years without a Region 6 champion and became the 51st region champion to go on the plaque in the school gym while leading three other wrestlers from the township into the state championships. The other qualifiers were Mike…

  • On Campus

    On Campus

    Anant A. Gupta has been named to the dean’s list at Boston University, Boston, for the fall 2015 semester. Each school and college at Boston University has its own criterion for the dean’s list, but students generally must attain a 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale, or be in the top 30 percent of their…

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