• MANVILLE: Speak now, or …

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer Mayor drops second chance for residents’ comments    The public comments portion of Monday’s Borough Council meeting was devoted entirely to discussion about a lost opportunity for residents to comment.    The issue arose after Mayor Lillian Zuza announced she had decided to eliminate the second public comment portion of Borough Council…

  • Permit extension bill commendable

    Tim Bender, CoreNet Global, New Jersey Chapter    The New Jersey State Legislature recently took another commendable, business-friendly step when Assembly bill 4347 was released by the Housing and Local Government Committee. A-4347    ”Extends expiration date of certain permits pursuant to “Permit Extension Act of 2008.” This development-friendly bill will extend the life of building permits…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Seller’s remorse’ leads to gym purchase

    HILLSBOROUGH: ‘Seller’s remorse’ leads to gym purchase

    Tony Genovese (at right), fitness manager at Powerhouse Gym, works with William Kole during a fitness training session. Staff photo by Eileen Oldfield

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Yugoslav exile spins historical tapestry with memoir

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — Jasha Levi was covering the United Nations in New York for a Yugoslav news agency when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to quell a spontaneous revolution in 1956.    As he wrote in his recently published memoir, Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia already had been expelled from Cominform — the…

  • REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: At the end of Lonely Street, Heartbreak Hotel

    By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Last Friday was Elvis’ birthday. “He would have been 75,” I said to a friend.    ”What do you mean, ‘would have been?’” the friend replied, quite seriously, and I had no answer for that.    Like a lot of people, I think of Elvis on his birthday. Of him and related…

  • Tickets available for Jan. 22 Tricky Tray

    The East Brunswick Youth Council will present its second annual Tricky Tray and Gift Auction beginning at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at Hammarskjold Middle School, 200 Rues Lane, East Brunswick. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for viewing. The event will feature prizes including an LCD HDTV with CineSpeed, a Blu-Ray Disc player, Giants tickets,…

  • Proceeds Night to support school

    Our Lady of Lourdes (OLOL) School, Milltown, will host a Proceeds Night fundraiser 5-9 p.m. Jan. 21 at T.G.I. Friday’s, Route 1 south, North Brunswick. The restaurant will donate 20 percent of each school supporter’s check (eat-in or takeout) to the school. Diners must present an event flier for the donation to count. For fliers…

  • Museum offering free Art After Hours

    The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, is open until 9 p.m. for Art After Hours on the first Wednesday of every month. Members of the public are invited to browse on their own or tour the museum’s collections and exhibits with a docent at 7 or 8 p.m. Admission is…

  • Dinners continue at Italian-American Club

    The Sgt. John Basilone Italian-American Club will offer its next weekly Tuesday- Night Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Dec. Jan. 19 at the Imperial Music Center, 48 Appleby Ave., South River. The fresh-cooked homemade dinner will include vegetable soup, salad, chicken, mushrooms, peppers, onions over pasta in a garlic broth, dessert, coffee and tea. Menus change…

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