• Nonfood-vendor space available at fair

    Nonfood vendors and others selling or displaying unique merchandise are sought for the 71st annual Middlesex County Fair set for Aug. 3-9 at the fairgrounds, Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. For more information or to reserve, call 732-416-1929 or log on to www.middlesexcountyfair. org.

  • Bowne-Munro plans April 4 clothing drive

    The Bowne-Munro PTA will hold a clothing drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 4 at the school, 120 Main St., East Brunswick. Items sought include clothes, shoes, handbags, belts, sheets, towels, stuffed animals, etc. Donations should be placed in tightly tied plastic bags. The PTA will receive money for every pound of merchandise…

  • Students gaining skills as ‘young consumers’

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Samantha Swiderski, 9, and Ryan Gregory, 10, have their groceries scanned at ShopRite of Spotswood Friday when Appleby School students were brought there to shop for a nutritious, balanced three-day menu for a family of four on a budget of $100. The fourthgraders are taking part in the ShopRite Young…

  • Officials asked to hear commuters re: contract

    Bids solicited for five-year bus contract, effective May 1 BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township’s commuter bus contract, always a contentious issue and at times a legal one as well, is back on the table. If last week’s Township Council meeting is any indication, the next contract, which will take effect…

  • Club names golf director

    MONROE — Award-winning golf professional Carolyn McKenzie Andrews has joined the staff of Forsgate Country Club as director of golf. Staying within the RDC Golf Group, McKenzie Andrews moves from the company’s Tuscawilla Country Club in Winter Springs, Fla., where she served as head golf professional for nearly eight years. This is somewhat of a…

  • TLC show features area family of 12

    Upcoming episode filmed at Special Strides in Monroe BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer If they weren’t famous already, the Hayes family of Marlboro will soon be known by Americans everywhere who tune in to the cable network TLC. PHOTO COURTESY OF TLC Tara Hayes, 4, and Kevin, 12, have some fun in front of the…

  • East Brunswick bank robbed

    East Brunswick police released this surveillance camera image of a suspect in the process of robbing the TD Bank on Milltown Road Monday. EAST BRUNSWICK — Police are looking for man who held up the TD Bank on Milltown Road on Monday. The robbery took place shortly after 3 p.m. The suspect entered the bank,…

  • Salamanders late to cross Beekman Road this year

    Spring has sprung, and usually that means the salamanders are on their way across Beekman Road. But that has yet to happen this year, due to a lack of heavy rains since the warmer temperatures began to arrive. “It will happen … we just don’t know when,” members of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission website,…

  • Tax hike anticipated in revenue-starved budget

    Stahl: Further cuts possible to reduce 23-cent increase BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — An initial municipal tax rate increase of 42 cents has been trimmed to 23 cents, and could go even lower, according to Mayor David Stahl. Stahl gave his first budget presentation during Monday night’s sparsely attended Township Council meeting,…

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