• N.J. Society of Professional Journalists honors Greater Media Newspapers

    Annual Awbrey Award recognizes a community newspaper for public service Greater Media Newspapers was recently presented with the 2009 Stuart and Beverley Awbrey Award for CommunityWeekly Newspaper Journalism. Greater Media Newspapers staff members teamed up to stage a benefit concert at the Stone Pony in December, featuring local and national talent, to raise money for…

  • Ceil Leedom receives volunteer awards

    Ceil Leedom, the South Brunswick Township historian, has received the New Jersey Library Association’s Volunteer Service Award for the second time. Leedom, a retired librarian, was first honored with the award in 2005. In 2009 she served more than 400 volunteer hours and was active in numerous community organizations such as the Kingston Historical Society,…

  • County-run food bank issues call for help

    BY JULIE KLIEGMAN BY JULIE KLIEGMAN Correspondent Lack of donations could force MCFOODS to cut supplies to local food pantries Middlesex County’s food bank is so low on supplies that it may be forced to shut down for the summer. T he operation, Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services (MCFOODS), which collects and…

  • Helmetta DPW could use services of North Bruns.

    Shared-services agreement for vehicle maintenance was up for authorization July 6 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Pending an official vote by the North Brunswick Township Council on July 6, North Brunswick and Helmetta plan to institute a two-year shared-services agreement for vehicle maintenance services. Helmetta, which previously outsourced its labor to a…

  • NBPD holds rapid response shooter training

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Officers simulate procedures North Brunswick police officers use an SUV as a rolling barricade during a rapid-response active shooter drill at Linwood Middle School June 28. PHOTO BY MIKE JAGENDORF if school personnel and children are at risk Members of North Brunswick’s Police Department have been participating in rapid-response active…

  • Local mayors oppose gov.’s cap 2.5 reform

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer More than 200 New Jersey mayors have already backed Gov. Chris Christie’s cap 2.5 reform agenda, pushing the state Legislature to take immediate action to adopt the property tax reform as a constitutional amendment. But South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese and North Brunswick Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack — both Democrats…

  • Farmers Market Purchase

    Clara Rider of New Brunswick (l) purchases flowers from Jess Niederer of Chickadee Creek Farm at the Rutgers Gardens farmers market on Ryders Lane in North Brunswick on June 25. Vendors offer pastries, tea, coffee, meats, cheeses, mushrooms, kettle corn, pickles and other local goodies every Friday from noon to 5 p.m. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Learning English would show respect for the United States

    As our wonderful and joyous Fourth of July celebration passes, I want to say a word to those not-yet Americans, documented or undocumented. You are here because of what this country has to offer you; freedom as well as free things, and help to those who are here to work and make a better life…

  • U.S. needs a national policy for energy

    We constantly hear that “it can’t happen here” as overconfident engineers and officials assure us that hightech systems will save us from ourselves. The promises include: It’s safe to transport oil in single-hulled ships, until the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska; we can safely build cities below sea level, until Katrina smashed through New…

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