• Crowning achievement

    Matt Rifkin and Kate Pentek take their thrones after slaying their way to the top in Sayreville War Memorial High School’s recent Drama Department production, a gothic, updated version of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” under the direction of Michael Piccurrio.

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    Hailey Quinones (l-r), Yasmine Light, Gabby Nestor, Tyra Humphrey, Jada Jackson and other members of the Sayreville Middle School Class Act Committee bag items collected during the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The school’s students, faculty and staff collected 1,678 food items and $469 in monetary contributions. These donations, along with items collected at the Arleth,…

  • National Recycling Day

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN First-graders Hammad Bhatti (l), 7, and Lionel Smelyanskiy, 6, look at a worm from a heap of vermicompost presented by David Slicker of the Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management during an event recognizing National Recycling Day at the Virgil Grissom School in Old Bridge Nov. 16. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • That’s a big hole to fill, so he’d better get shoveling

    Coda • GREG BEAN It sure didn’t take our governor-elect long to start looking like someone had whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, did it? There he was on the news last week after a meeting with the state treasury people, saying that things are even worse than he imagined. What everyone was…

  • Lost in cyberspace

    Around Town • AMY ROSEN Sometimes I feel as if I am hanging by the tips of my fingers trying to keep up with technology in the 21st century. I would like to think I am pretty savvy, but who can keep up with all of the new developments? My 15-year-old son and his friends,…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Sayreville War Memorial High School cheerleaders Danielle Traina (l-r), Stephanie Reyes and Giana Galasso, and Jenna Feola (back), stand atop their squad mates during halftime of the Bombers’ NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV semifinal game against East Brunswick Friday night. The Bears defeated Sayreville 13-8. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • POAC will host training and events

    POAC (Parents of Autistic Children) will offer free training on a variety of topics: • Dec. 1, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Intro to Applied Behavior Analysis to be held at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington; • Dec. 2, 7-8:30 p.m., Living with Autism Planning for the Future to be held in Brick; • Dec.…

  • ‘Nutcracker in the Sky’ to be performed

    The Bay Head School of Ballet & Violin, Bay Head, will host its “Nutcracker in the Sky” 7-8 p.m. Dec. 4 as part of the Bay Head Christmas walk. Students ranging in age from 5 to 16 will perform scenes from the ballet in an expanse of picture windows on the second floor. Included in…

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