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Event to raise funds for two ill students
Kids In Productionwill present a fundraising event, “Stay a While for Maggie & Kyle,” on Saturday, Jan. 8, atMetuchenHigh School, GroveAvenue, beginning at 6 p.m. The evening will feature live music, food and fun. Proceeds will help offset some of the prohibitive costs of treatment for two Metuchen High School teens battling cancer. The event…
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Burroughs documentary coming to ForumTheatre
METUCHEN— Hailed as the grandfather of punk and the godfather of the Beat generation, William S. Burroughs was a bartender, a private detective, a factory worker, an exterminator, a heroin addict and a writer. His novel “Naked Lunch,” one of the last books to be banned by the U.S. government, remains one of the most…
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MCC to offer Instant Decision Day on Jan. 6
Middlesex County College (MCC) will offer Instant Decision Day on Thursday, Jan. 6, at 6 p.m. The event will be held in the College Center on the Edison campus. Instant Decision Day will allow prospective students to learn about the college, apply online and meet one-on-one with a counselor to discuss the application. As an…
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Writer says county GOP has wrong mindset
I am not, nor have I ever been, one of those people who puts party affiliation before people and principle. I find that the missing cerebral function in all of this is not being a “party” member, but substituting it for being an American first. It is, however, important to examine why the Middlesex County…
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Toll expenses unfair to Middlesex Cty. residents
With the demise of the ARC tunnel, we have a unique opportunity to address the injustice that Middlesex County residents have long incurred with New Jersey’s toll roads. While virtually every other highway in New Jersey is nontolled, Middlesex County residents are trapped taking two of only three toll roads in the entire state. Middlesex…
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Edison Library to host book club Jan. 12
The Edison Public Library, 340 PlainfieldAve., will host a book club at 2 p.m. Jan. 12 and will be discussing “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helen Simonson. Everyone is welcome. Register online at www.lmxac.org/edisonlib or call the library at 732-287-2298, ext.1.
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Edison board decries state’s ‘unfair funding program’
BY KATHY CHANG EDISON — School officials are making their voices heard. The Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of a resolution demanding that the state provide the district its fair share of school aid at the board’s meeting last month. The resolution states that the Edison Public School District derives only 3.8 percent…
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Metuchen police trading card contest winners awarded
METUCHEN — Some lucky children received $20 gift certificates from the borough police force on Dec. 3. Belinda Savarese, Donald McCarthy, and John and Brynna Morris were the first four children to collect all 30Metuchen police trading cards and bring them to headquarters. The children received their gift certificates at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting,…
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