• Music in the Park continues in Monroe

    The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission’s 2009 Music in the Park Summer Series will offer free live musical events 6-8 p.m. on six Thursday evenings in the open-grove gazebo on the lake at Thompson Park, Monroe. The remaining concert schedule is as follows: • July 30 — Alturas Duo and guest flutist, playing South American…

  • TNT charity sports training sets meeting

    The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training (TNT) program will hold a complimentary information meeting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. TNT is a charity sports-training program in which participants raise donations to help find cures for blood cancers. In exchange, they receive personalized coaching,…

  • Blood drive planned for Aug. 1 at church

    St. Thomas the Apostle Church, in cooperation with Knights of Columbus Council No. 4815, will hold a summer blood drive from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 1 in the parish auditorium, Route 18 south, Old Bridge. Donors must be between the ages of 17 and 75, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in…

  • Guitar hero to impart expertise at library

    Guitarist Matt Richards will share the skills and concepts he uses in his own playing during a program set for 7-8 p.m. Aug. 6 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Richards will demonstrate and discuss finger style and flat-pick techniques, chord progressions and scales, improvisation, playing as a soloist and more.…

  • St. Bart’s School continues registration

    St. Bartholomew School, 470 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick, is continuing to register new students for the 2009-10 school year. Tours are available upon request. The school has half-day and full-day prekindergarten, full-day kindergarten and classes for grades 1-8. Classes in art, physical education, computers, music and Spanish are offered. Also available are afterschool care and…

  • S.R. to celebrate National Night Out

    South River will observe the annual National Night Out with a street fair and party 5-10 p.m. Aug. 4 on the South River High School grounds, Montgomery Street. The event, which is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW) and co-sponsored locally by the South River Police Department and the South River Municipal…

  • Brazilian film next up for library festival

    The 2009 Summer International Film Festival at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, will begin again Aug. 4 with 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. screenings of the Brazilian film “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.” The 2006 movie, rated PG, was directed by Cao Hamburger. When they go into hiding from the…

  • Senior Olympics to be topic of meeting

    The Spotswood Office on Aging, 1 Arlington Ave., will host a meeting at noon Aug. 3 to discuss the 2009 Senior Olympics set for Sept. 11-13 in Woodbridge. Senior Olympic chairpersons Frank St. Marie and Pat Trombetta will offer information on the event, including how to register and borough-sponsored registration discounts. The competition is open…

  • Public Safety Night fest planned in E.B.

    The East Brunswick Police Department will hold its annual Department of Public Safety Night 6-9 p.m. Aug. 4 around the municipal pond, behind East Brunswick Police headquarters, Jean Walling Civic Center. The event is designed to generate support for anticrime initiatives and to strengthen the relationship between the police department and the community it serves.…

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