• Spring break brings theme park opening

    Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, Jackson, will kick off the 2010 season on March 27 with its two-week-long spring break presented by Stride Gum. Opening day will launch the Stride-A-Thon as 30 riders compete to be the last rider on the seven looping, floorless coaster Bizarro in this eight-hour ride-a-thon. Through a contest hosted…

  • N.B. DPW changes methods of grass, bulk collection

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Bob Selover, a supervisor at the North Brunswick Department of Public Works, demonstrates how to cut the lawn using a mulch lawnmower, which cuts and circulates grass blades down into the soil instead of shooting it out of the sides or into a bag. Grass will no longer be collected…

  • Consignors needed for No. Brunswick fair next month

    Children’s items for newborns through size 12 are needed BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Lynn Heuer, of Milltown, and Susan Chinchar, of East Brunswick, met about two years ago at the Little Sprouts of Middlesex club for mothers in Milltown. Heuer, who was pregnant with her second child, became good friends with…

  • Middlesex County unveils new ‘green’ website

    Middlesex County unveiled its new “Sustainability” website on March 9, the first result of the Middlesex County Sustainability Plan. The website, www.mcset.com, will be used as a channel for communication and reference for county departments, municipal governments, citizens, businesses and civic organizations to provide ongoing feedback on where the county is, where it is heading,…

  • Boy Scouts ‘PAWS’ at meeting to learn about animal shelters

    NBTHS volunteer organization performs skits to teach young boys about rescuing dogs BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The scene is a park. There is a family with two children watching people with dogs walk by. Above: Nicholas (l) and Dominic Moccio take a closer look at Roxy during a show put on by the North…

  • Veterans remember wartime stories for scrapbook

    Participants wanted for project that shares memories and history BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer Don Stern is a World War II veteran who served as a bombardier for the Air Force at a time when Europe was largely dominated by Nazi Germany. He started attending Queens College in September 1941 only a few months before…

  • So. Brunswick to deal with $6.4M reduction in state aid

    North Brunswick to lose $4.1 million in aid BY JENNIFER BOOTON & JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writers Hundreds of staff and programs could be cut from the South Brunswick school district next year to make up for a $6.4 million slash in state aid. Gov. Chris Christie, who made an executive order last month to freeze…

  • Pack 81

    Matt Clark, a troop leader for Pack 81, shows his dog Ginger to Jared (l-r) and Avery Almanzor and Mary Mehalick, during a show put on by the North Brunswick Township High School PAWS (Protect Animals With Service) volunteer organization for the Scouts on March 19 at Our Lady of Peace. The community service project…

  • It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it

    Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…

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