• Family recipes sought for OLV cookbook

    Our Lady of Victories Senior Club, Sayreville, is compiling recipes for a commemorative cookbook titled “Just Like Grandma Used To Make.” The book will be assembled in conjunction with the 125th anniversary of OLV parish. All parish families are asked to submit favorite recipes that have been handed down in their families. Categories will be…

  • Donations needed for pet-shelter Yard Sale

    Sayreville Pet Adoption Center, 1400 Main St., will hold a Giant Yard Sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 7 in the center’s parking lot. Donations of items for the sale will be accepted at the shelter 11 a.m.-4 p.m. June 5 and 6 only. Clothing, linens and shoes will not be accepted. Proceeds from the event…

  • Students to stage ‘Dreaming Poet’

    The drama club at Walter Schirra Elementary School will present “The Dreaming Poet,” a multicultural poetry-in-motion play, at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. June 9 at the school, 1 Awn Street, Old Bridge. The show focuses on Jason, a fifth-grade student who is struggling to create a poem. As he drifts off to sleep to…

  • Friends seeks books for Summer Sale

    The Friends of the Sayreville Public Library will sponsor a Summer Book Sale 1:30-3:30 p.m. June 14 at the library, Washington Road, Parlin section of Sayreville. Books may be purchased for $5 a bag; bags will be provided by the Friends. Donations for the sale may be dropped off at the Friends’ mailbox at the…

  • Middlesex County drug summit June 5

    The seventh annual Middlesex County Drug Summit will take place from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on June 5 at Middlesex County Fire Academy, 1001 Fire Academy Drive, Sayreville. The free conference is sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration; Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office; National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) of Middlesex County Inc.;…

  • Talk on native plants at meeting June 10

    Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands will hold its annual meeting and present “Elegant, Little-Known Native Plants” by Patricia A. Taylor, Princeton, 7:30-9 p.m. June 10 at D&R Canal State Park Headquarters, 145 Mapleton Road, Kingston section of South Brunswick. Taylor is the author of several gardening books and articles. She will focus on elegant but…

  • Radio Control Club will fly on June 7

    The Tri-County Radio Control (RC) Club will hold its third annual Open House and Model Aircraft Show noon-3 p.m. June 7 at Heavenly Farms Park, Dunhams Corner Road, East Brunswick, across from the athletic fields. Rain date is June 14. The public is invited to watch demonstrations and to try flying with the club’s instructors,…

  • MOM line dead?

    Panel favors service through Monmouth, not Middlesex BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Passenger train service would be limited to inland Monmouth and Ocean counties if NJ Transit administrators follow through on the recommendation of a working group of stakeholders. On May 27, NJ Transit announced that members of a working group from Monmouth, Ocean and…

  • E.B. girl to sell lemonade, open boutique for charity

    Rebekah Makin (r) and Saige Grant work the lemonade stand last year. EAST BRUNSWICK — A local seventh-grader who last year helped raise $2,400 for children with cancer by selling lemonade with a friend is taking her efforts a step further this year. This month, Rebekah Makin, 13, will open Tara’s Closet, a venue for…

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