• S.R. American Legion slates holiday dinner

    American Legion Post No. 214 will sponsor its annual St. Patrick’s Day and St. Joseph’s Day Dinner 2-6 p.m. March 8 at the post home, 264 Whitehead Ave., South River. Guests may select a corned beef or ham dinner. Donation is $10 for adults, $4 for children under age 10. For more information, call the…

  • Patsy Palma concert slated for March 14

    “Patsy Palma and Friends” will be presented at 7 p.m. March 14 at the Main Street Theatre, 3018 Bordentown Ave., Parlin section of Sayreville. Palma, aided by some of his musical friends, will perform a concert of classic standards and oldies. Italian-American fare will be on sale at the theater café. Tickets cost $10 in…

  • Auxiliary sets holiday breakfast, egg hunt

    The South Old Bridge Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary will host a Breakfast With the Easter Bunny 9:30-11:30 a.m. March 28 at Engine Company No. 3, Englishtown Road and Vantines Lane, Old Bridge. The event will feature breakfast, photos with the Easter Bunny, bingo, an egg hunt (participants should bring their own baskets), a petting zoo…

  • Police: Cash, cocaine seized in arrest of four in S. Amboy

    SOUTH AMBOY — Police arrested four men on drug charges after conducting a twomonth investigation into alleged cocaine sales in the city. The arrests were made when police executed search warrants at two apartments on North Broadway at 6 p.m. Feb. 20, seizing nearly 1.5 pounds of cocaine and $14,000 in cash believed to have…

  • Health check

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top right: The New Jersey Devils mascot greets a group of students in third, fourth and fifth grades at Southwood Elementary School in Old Bridge Feb. 24. The hockey team’s mascot and former Devils player Bruce Driver came to the school to discuss the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and…

  • Rocky Horror Show

    Middlesex County College will present Richard O’Brien’s “Rocky Horror Show” at 8 p.m. March 6 and at 8 p.m. and midnight March 7. The show is about an engaged couple whose car breaks down on the way to visit their former science teacher. They take refuge at an old castle inhabited by some very wild…

  • PTSA fashion show

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Old Bridge High School sophomore Jacqueline Testino and senior Eric Mahler step out in style during the PTSA fashion show “Starry, Starry Knights” Feb. 22 at the school auditorium. They were misidentified in last week’s Suburban.

  • Game over: Board victorious over coach

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer After four years of legal wrangling and national attention, East Brunswick High School football coach Marcus Borden’s fight to participate in team prayer has apparently come to an end. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Borden’s petition to hear the case, leaving the legal victory in the hands of…

  • Students get a special ‘thank you’ from big Mac

    BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Right: Kindergarten teacher Vivian Deibert gets some hugs from her students at the Sacred Heart School in South Amboy after she volunteered for the Ronald McDonald show in the auditorium Feb. 26. Students celebrated with a visit from Ronald McDonald (above) after collecting soda can tabs…

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