• OceanFirst Bank to host calendar contest

    The annual OceanFirst Bank Calendar Contest is under way, and photographers are invited to submit original local photographs to be displayed in the bank’s 2010 calendar. Suggested themes include seasonal scenes of familiar local landmarks, beaches, oceans or lakes within Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Photographs must be in color, formatted 10-by-8-inch deep horizontally, and…

  • N.B. Junior Police Acad. to begin Aug. 3

    The North Brunswick Police Department will sponsor the sixth annual Junior Police Academy 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Aug. 3-14 at Linwood Middle School, Linwood Place, North Brunswick. Applicants should be age 11-16. The academy offers a variety of police related classes, and will offer three offsite field trips (time/cost permitted). Space is limited to 30 cadets.…

  • George T. Prendergast

    Mr. Prendergast, 86, of Wayne, died July 1, 2009, at St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital, Wayne. He resided in the Griggstown section of Franklin Township, and Monroe Township, prior to relocating to Wayne four years ago. He was a fireman at Hook and Ladder Company No. 105, Brooklyn, N.Y., for 22 years, retiring in 1986. During…

  • Donald F. Saunders

    Mr. Saunders, 81, of East Brunswick, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He resided in North Brunswick prior to relocating to East Brunswick in 1952. He was a research lab technician at E.I. DuPont DeNemours and Company, Parlin section of Sayreville, for 40 years, retiring in 1986. He…

  • Nicholas Fama Jr.

    Mr. Fama, 87, of North Brunswick and Indiana, died June 30, 2009, at Regency Heritage Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Somerset. He resided in Old Bridge for more than 35 years, prior to relocating to North Brunswick and Indiana. He was a custodian at Cedar Ridge School for the Old Bridge Board of Education, retiring in…

  • Thelma Cohen Miller

    Mrs. Miller, 92, of North Brunswick, died July 3, 2009, in Buckingham Place Rehabilitation & Care Center, South Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Benjamin H. Miller, in 2004. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Lee and Marvin Zektzer of North Brunswick; and two grandchildren. A funeral services was held at Anshe…

  • Rita M. Netter Mayer

    Mrs. Mayer, 89, of East Brunswick, formerly of Spotswood, died June 26, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, William J. Mayer, died in 1982. Surviving are a daughter, Patricia Mayer of Spotswood; a son, William R. Mayer, and his wife, Carol, of Estero, Fla.; a sister, Madeline Schron of Spotswood;…

  • Stanley Brinstein

    Mr. Brinstein, 82, of North Brunswick, died July 4, 2009, at the Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington. He was employed as a representative for several years with the U.S. Postal Service. He is survived by two sisters, Joan Sassenoff of North Brunswick, and Irma Henry of East Brunswick; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral service…

  • Christin Jay Smith

    Miss Smith, 27, of South Brunswick, died July 2, 2009. She was a fourth-grade teacher at Brooks Crossing School, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. She was predeceased by her father, Carter Jay Smith. She is survived by her mother, Maryann Basso Sievers of Yardley, Pa.; her grandparents, Arthur and Rosemary Basso of East Brunswick,…

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