• Restaurant Week slated to run Feb. 28 through March 6 in Atlantic City

    Atlantic City has announced the return of Restaurant Week (www. acrestaurantweek.com) slated to take place Feb. 28 through March 6. More than 70 of the destination’s best restaurants will once again offer special fixed price lunches for $15.10 per person and fixed price dinners for $33.10 per person during the promotion. “It seems only natural…

  • ELEC website has information about campaign donations

    More than $16.7 million in campaign donations received by local candidates in last fall’s general elections can now be easily searched on the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) Internet website. According to a press release, Jeff Brindle, executive director of the commission, encouraged members of the public, media members and candidates to take…

  • Fire district budgets approved in South Brunswick

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The proposed budgets for South Brunswick’s three fire districts were approved last weekend. District 1, based in Kendall Park, had a proposed 2010 budget of $1,108,400, with $761,107 to be raised through taxes. The budget was adopted with 105 “yes” votes as opposed to 14 “no” votes.…

  • Residents voice concerns over new zoning ordinance in N.B.

    Worries exist over effects on traffic, quality of life as result of current transit village plan BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Residents voiced concerns over the proposed transit village and train station being contemplated for Route 1 in North Brunswick during a public input session Feb. 18 at North Brunswick Township High School, citing traffic…

  • Turnpike Auth. to help Haiti

    For the convenience of patrons in Central Jersey, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and HMSHost Corp. have set up collection points for Haitian earthquake relief at the Richard Stockton and Woodrow Wilson service areas on the turnpike and at the Cheesequake service area on the Garden State Parkway. The collection points will remain up indefinitely.…

  • “Peter Pan”

    Sixth-graders Sheela Hanagal (l) and Aanya Vinay along with the cast of “Peter Pan” make their final preparations before going on stage for their last performance, held at Crossroads North Middle School in Monmouth Junction, on Feb. 17. See more photos, page 29 and at gmnews.com. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • News of the weird: Tiger, VW, Olympics and more

    Coda • GREG BEAN So much to write about this week, so little space. Some weeks, I don’t know what I’m going to write about until I sit down at the computer on deadline day. Other weeks, there’s so much to write about I’d need 10 columns to do the subject matter justice. So, in…

  • Help available for teenagers who are in a tough situation

    On Jan. 28 the U.S. Senate passed a resolution designating February as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. This is an important acknowledgment of a situation that deserves the community’s full attention. It has never been more difficult to be a teenager on the dating scene. The very means of communication that help…

  • Extend economic relief to S.S. beneficiaries

    For the first time since 1975, Social Security beneficiaries will not receive a Cost of LivingAdjustment (COLA) this year. For over three decades, millions of Americans have counted on these increases to help make ends meet. Particularly in this economic climate, having this extra protection is critical for the financial security of the 41 million…

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