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Music and Art Festival slated in Metuchen
The Metuchen Arts Council will present its annual outdoor Jazzfest concert featuring Carrie Jackson and The Jazzin Allstars and The Derrick Baker Group in the plaza in front of Metuchen Borough Hall on the corner of Main Street and Middlesex Avenue at 3 p.m. Sept. 19. In case of rain, the program will move indoors…
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YMCA schedules Color Splash Dash
The YMCA Janice Garbolino Memorial 5K Run/Walk will be held Sept. 19 at Lakeview School at Roosevelt Park, 10 Tall Oak Drive, Edison. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., with the race starting at 8:30 a.m. The color run/walk will feature color stations complete with a DJ, photo booth, snacks and water. The event supports the…
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Library announces Talk like a Pirate Day
The Edison library will host “Talk like a Pirate Day” at the North Edison Library, 777 Grove Ave., at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16, and at 2 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Clara Barton Branch Library, 141 Hoover Ave. Children ages 1-11 are welcome. Registration is open to the community at www.edisonpubliclibrary.net or by calling…
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JCC announces trips to Atlantic City
The Senior Adult Club of The Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County, 1775 Oak Tree Rd., Edison, will offer a trip to Caesar’s Casino in Atlantic City on Sept. 21 and Oct. 26. The bus will leave Inman/Grove at 8:30 a.m. and depart from the JCC at 8:45 a.m. The return from Atlantic City will…
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Edison council lends its support to ‘Kids Need Support 2’
By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent EDISON — A organization that focuses on helping children recently received recognition from the Township Council. Kids Need Support 2, a nonprofit charity based in the Colonia section of Woodbridge that holds many of its events at Edison’s Minnie B. Veal Community Center, supports disadvantaged children — many of whom have…
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‘Women of the Wall’
The Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El stand together in their prayer shawls — or tallitot, in Hebrew — in support of “Women of the Wall,” an organization working to allow women to freely wear their prayer shawls at Israel’s Western Wall. The women flanking the group hold signs reading, “Our tallitot are not provocative, they’re our…
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Fundraising race aims to ensure the hungry don’t run on empty
By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent EDISON — Some people may not realize that hunger can, and does, hit close to home. But it’s a reality that Hands of Hope, which runs a food pantry out of St. James Episcopal Church in the township, faces head-on. To continue its goal of alleviating hunger in Middlesex County, Hands…
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Evening of food and fun in Sukkah
Temple Emanu-El, 100 James Street, Edison, will hold an evening of spirits, snacks and games in Temple Emanu-El’s Sukkah at 8 p.m. on Oct. 3. The cost is $18 per person. RSVP is requested by September 16. Must be age 21 and older. For more information, contact Dara Winston at 732-549-4442, ext. 4.
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Star of ‘Big Bang Theory’ to appear in Edison
Kunal Nayyar, star of “The Big Bang Theory,” will be signing his new book, “Yes, My Accent Is Real and Some Other Things I Haven’t Told You” at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 at Barnes & Noble, Menlo Park Mall, Edison. Nayyar, who begins his 9th season as Raj Koothrappali on “The Big Bang Theory” on…
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