• Activities planned at senior center

    A variety of upcoming programs will be offered at the Monroe Township Senior Center, 1 Municipal Plaza, in the Monroe Municipal Building, Perrineville Road. For more information and to register for events, call the center at 732-521-6111, unless otherwise indicated. January highlights include: • “History of Jazz” — begins Jan. 4; • Zumba classes —…

  • Youngsters to have ‘Fun With Energy’

    Scientist Jeff Boyer will make everyday breakfast cereal dance and toilet paper fly during a youth program titled “Fun With Energy” set for 1 p.m. Dec. 29 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Boyer will offer demonstrations of kinetic, wind, sound and mechanical energy and more. Youngsters will have the opportunity…

  • Library to host event for retiring director

    The Jamesburg Public Library and Cultural Center, 229 Gatzmer Ave., will sponsor an open house and party 2-4 p.m. Dec. 30 in honor of Cindy Yasher, library director, who will retire after 19 1/2 years of service. All are welcome to attend.

  • Auditions slated for’Brigadoon’ in E.B.

    Playhouse 22 of East Brunswick will hold auditions for its upcoming presentation of “Brigadoon” at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 and 10 at the new Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road. Participants will be asked to sing and in most cases dance, and should bring comfortable clothing. For non-singing roles, participants will be asked to read…

  • Sports Shorts

    The Old Bridge Lightning, a 9U travel baseball team with players from Old Bridge, East Brunswick and Spotswood, went 11-0 this season and won the 2009 fall USABL Central East Division title. The team was 9-0 in the regular season, beating the Jackson Cobras 9-8 in the semifinal game, and South Wall Wizards 2-1 in…

  • Bears’ challenge: Finding right mix for its talent

    BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Consider that Bo Henning is the dean of Greater Middlesex Conference boys basketball coaches, having mentored East Brunswick High School for 21 years. So when he maintains that this year’s Bears are the deepest and most competitive group he’s coached in his long tenure, you have to believe this could be…

  • Firefighters contain blaze in E.B.

    EAST BRUNSWICK — A fire that broke out at a residential home on Naricon Place is believed to have been caused by “careless smoking,” according to police. Police and fire officials were dispatched to the home at 12:45 p.m. Dec. 15 by a residential fire alarm. While police were en route to the fire alarm,…

  • 36-foot menorah reinstalled, dedicated at end of Hanukkah

    Monroe Township Councelwoman Leslie Koppel- Egierd speaks during the lighting of a menorah that Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky (l), director of Chabad Jewish Center in Monroe, says is the state’s largest, at over 30 feet in height. The menorah, at Perrineville and Prospect Plains roads, was dedicated on Friday, the final day of the Chanukah. MONROE…

  • Holiday lighting

    JEFF GRANIT staff Harsha Coonathur (l), 6, and Sarasi Deldhiya, 3, both of Jamesburg, wait for some more popcorn to be made during the borough’s holiday lighting event at Veterans Park Dec. 9. JEFF GRANIT staff

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