• Summer program to focus on gardening

    Middlesex County students who have completed seventh through eleventh grades are invited to attend the YESS (Youth Enhanced Service to Society) summer program at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s EARTH Center, Davidsons Mill Pond Park, Riva Avenue, South Brunswick. The program will be held 9 a.m. to noon July 19-23 and will focus on environmental stewardship…

  • SBHS Rotary Club names Student of the Year

    Ashley Woller SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Ashley Danielle Woller has been selected by the student members of the South Brunswick High School (SBHS) Interact Club as the Rotary – Interact Student of the Year for 2010. The 16-year-old junior served as vice president of her freshman and sophomore class, and organized social and educational events for…

  • John J. Turner

    Mr. Turner, 80, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died June 15, 2010, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1994, he was employed as an assistant manager at R&S Strauss in the former Sayrewoods Shopping Center, Old Bridge, where he worked for 15 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Patricia Corlett Turner; a…

  • Jonathan Edward Ogle

    Mr. Ogle, 77, of the Whiting section of Manchester, formerly of North Brunswick, Old Bridge and Plainsboro, died June 8, 2010, in the Elms of Cranbury. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was a computer-systems analyst with Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick, where he worked for 40 years. He was predeceased by a brother, Henry…

  • Joseph Ivan

    Mr. Ivan, 91, of South River, died June 8, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1982, he was employed as a machine operator with Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick and North Brunswick, where he worked for 40 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Catherine Breese Ivan;…

  • Vision for former J&J site has been blurred

    It seems North Brunswick’s recently approved Main Street North Brunswick project on the former Johnson & Johnson Route 1 site will be a contradiction of terms in 21st-century planning. What was the Planning Board thinking? Forgotten are the grandiose plans presented a few years ago by architect/consultant Hillier of Princeton. Now, the vision so elaborately…

  • Resident unhappy with hookah lounge in N.B.

    Iwas saddened to read of the new hookah lounge, Mist, in North Brunswick. Hookah tobacco contains nicotine, and nicotine in any form is an addictive substance that causes myriad health problems culminating in premature death. There’s no safe way to use nicotine products, hookahs included. That the owners of Mist are publicizing this as a…

  • For some men, the other woman is just a voice

    It turns out I’m relatively normal after all — at least in this contentious regard. And it pleases me to know that my wife and I aren’t the first happily married couple to have a disagreement about the other woman in a husband’s life (at least a dissent that won’t ultimately involve histrionic atmospherics and…

  • Assistance available for postpartum issues

    The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services wants residents to know that help is available for women who are suffering with postpartum mood issues. Among the babies born in the United States every year, 35 percent are born from the beginning of June through the end of September. For every eight in 10…

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