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    East Brunswick/Spotswood Golden Bear Chargers youth football and cheer organization will be accepting registrations for boys and girls ages 5-15 6-8 p.m. June 17 at the East Brunswick Senior Center and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 19 at the Spotswood Municipal Building. For more information, call 732-744-4483 or go to www.leaguelineup. com/gbcfootball. Frog…

  • Falcon’s Dini following grandfather’s advice in his baseball pursuit

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Life’s harsh realities have no boundaries and can be just as cruel to a young person like Nick Dini as someone older. Nick Dini Fortunately, Dini is not an ordinary teenager. Not even the unexpected death of his grandfather, Sunday, is preventing the talented baseball player from chasing his dream —…

  • Kominkiewicz sets her standards high

    E.B. thrower won MOC discus title BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Her declaration might be the perfect paradox of words. “If I devoted the same time to track as I do studying,” says Corinne Kominkiewicz, an East Brunswick High School senior, “I could have become a better shot put and discus hurler. If I applied the…

  • New high school well on way to completion

    Exterior of building up; opening of new facility is one school year away BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — The township’s new high school is roughly 75 percent finished and is slated to open in the fall of 2011. “We are right on schedule,” said Jerry Tague, the Monroe school district’s facilities manager.…

  • 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;…

  • Henry J. Tyskiewicz

    Mr. Tyszkiewicz, 95, of Sayreville, died May 31, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he worked as a painter with E.I. DuPont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville. He was predeceased by a son, Hank, and by a daughter in-law, Joan. Surviving are his wife, Martha; five children,…

  • 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…

  • Robert F. Sommers

    Mr. Sommers, 87, of Old Bridge, died June 2, 2010, in the Reformed Church Home, Old Bridge. Prior to his retirement in 2002, he worked for 18 years as a naturalist at Cheesequake State Park, Old Bridge. He served for 25 years on the Old Bridge Environmental Commission. His wife, Genevieve, died in 1996. Surviving…

  • Robert P. Schuler Sr.

    Mr. Schuler, 81, of Monroe, died June 8, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a computer operator with Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for 29 years. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Klinger Schuler; a son, Robert Schuler Jr., and his wife, Kim, of…

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