• D&R Canal walk May 1 in Franklin

    The Delaware & Raritan Canal Watch group will hold a birding and history walk May 1 on the state park towpath in the Weston Zarephath section of Franklin Township. The walk, which starts at 8 a.m., will meet at the Weston Causeway parking area on the canal and follow the towpath downstream to Somerset Christian…

  • SAMHAJ workshop May 6 in No. Bruns.

    SAMHAJ (South Asian Mental Health Awareness in New Jersey) will present “Helping Families Plan for the Future of a Loved One with a Disability” 7-9 p.m. May 6 at its office, 1562 Route 130, North Brunswick. Ellen Ball Nalven, executive director of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network, will address issues such as special needs trusts, legal…

  • Walk will benefit organ donation

    The 11th annual Walk the Walk for Organ and Tissue Donation, presented by the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America Inc., will take place in Point Pleasant Beach on May 2. Participants may sign in at 9:30 a.m. at Memorial Park, and the walk will depart from the band shell at 11 a.m. The walkers…

  • VFW breakfast May 2 in South Brunswick

    The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) will hold a breakfast 8-11 a.m. May 2 at the South Brunswick VFW Post 9111, 11 Henderson Road, Kendall Park. Breakfast includes omelets, scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, bacon, bagels, orange juice, coffee and tea. A donation of $8 per adult or $5 per child age 6 to 12…

  • Plant sale May 1, 2 at EARTH Center in S.B.

    The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County’s EARTH Center will hold a Garden Season Kick-Off and Plant Sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 1 and noon to 4 p.m. May 2 in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Ave., South Brunswick. The selection of plants includes heirloom tomatoes, varieties of perennials and annuals, flowering…

  • S.B. Library to offer classes, lectures

    The South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, is offering sailing classes by the Princeton Ski Club from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 1 and 8; Wednesday Wisdom lectures at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month starting May 5; a performance by the Metropolitan Saxophone Quartet at 2 p.m. May 16; business…

  • Rummage sale April 30, May 1 in S.B.

    The South Brunswick Community Development Corp. Charleston Place Senior Citizen Housing, 3424 Route 27, Kendall Park, will hold a rummage sale 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. April 30 and May 1. Call 732-297- 7966 for information.

  • Shame raises stigma against people with a mental illness

    Iremember how I sat at the kitchen table in December 1993 with knots in my stomach, my mother cooking dinner for my ninth birthday party. “Do you think Dad is going to come out of his room during my party?” I nervously asked my mother as she pulled coconut barfi, a traditional Indian sweet, out…

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