• Metuchen residents invited to CQE meeting

    Citizens for Quality Education (CQE) invites all Metuchen residents who are interested in education to coffee and conversation at their next public meeting on Monday, July 26, at 8 p.m. in Room 225 of Metuchen Borough Hall, 500 Main St. School may be out, but the business of the schools continues throughout the summer. Residents…

  • Widows Or Widowers meeting Aug. 2

    Middlesex East Widows Or Widowers will conduct a business meeting on Monday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Carteret Community Center, Pershing and Cooke avenues, Carteret. All widows and widowers are welcome to attend. For additional information, call 732- 969-2228 or 908-757-0515.

  • Congregation Beth El to welcome rabbi

    Congregation Beth El, 91 Jefferson Blvd., Edison, will welcome Rabbi Mark Kunis from Atlanta, Ga., who will speak and lead the congregation in new melodies on Friday, July 23, at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Kunis is an expert in kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. For more information, call 732-985-7272.

  • JFK Miles for Minds 5K run/walk July 25

    The JFK Medical Center Foundation’s second annual JFK Miles for Minds 5K and Fun Run/Walk will take place on Sunday, July 25, at Roosevelt Park in Edison. The Fun Run/Walk will begin at 8:30 a.m., and the 5K race will start at 9 a.m. Proceeds from the event will benefit the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute’s…

  • Edison board will meet July 27 to discuss privatizing services

    BY KATHY CHANG EDISON — The Board of Education will soon decide whether to restore its 137 paraprofessionals and teacher aides or privatize their services. A special public meeting on the matter will be held at 7 p.m., July 27 at Edison High School. In June, the school board voted 5-4 to send reduction-in-force letters…

  • PRINCETON: Princeton 11s back in elite company

    Baseball all-stars begin final four By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    The Princeton 11-year-old all-star baseball team is back in the final four of the District 12 Little League tournament.    Last year, they were one of four teams left in the 10-year-old tournament, and with a win over Millstone-Roosevelt in pool play, Princeton moved into…

  • Cap exemptions bad idea

    Gregory M. Cinque, Millstone    One of the objectives of the recently enacted 2 percent cap on municipal government budget, is to impose a fiscal discipline on local governments, school boards and other local public service entities. The more exceptions allowed in the cap, the more the cap is weakened. Hopefully, the state Assembly will recognize…

  • Change does Tillotson good

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    A lot has changed in a year for Chris Tillotson, but it’s worked out for the best for the Hillsborough High School graduate.    Tillotson was a standout football player for the Raiders — he received the Outstanding Lineman Award at last year’s Sunshine Football Classic — and he had…

  • U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKS KESSLER INSTITUTE ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST REHABILITATION HOSPITALS

    By Irene Maslowski Nation’s largest rehabilitation hospital ranks #2 in the country; tops in the East Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation (www.kessler-rehab.com) has again been ranked as one of the top two rehabilitation hospitals in the country and as the best facility of its kind in the East. This marks the 18th consecutive year that Kessler…

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