• Library events include jazz band, closet cleanout

    The Sayreville Public Library, 1050 Washington Road, Parlin, will hold the following events in September: “The Great Closet Cleanout” will be held 6:30-8 p.m. on Sept. 15. Jamie Novak will teach attendees how to transform closets and make more storage space. The Medicare 101 Workshop will be held 6:30-8 p.m. on Sept. 16 by certified…

  • Local priest appointed Canon of Polish Basilica

    Fr. Robert Lynam A local priest has been appointed Canon of the Basilica of St. Florian in Poland. Fr. Robert Lynam, pastor of St. Augustine of Canterbury Church in Kendall Park, was conferred in respect for the dedication and honor to the life and efforts of St. John Paul II. On May 17, Cardinal Archbishop…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    Burger King restaurants will be participating in a fundraiser to support cancer research for the 16th consecutive year. Guests can contribute $1 to the Jimmy Fund through the A Chance for Kids & Families program at participating Burger King restaurants through Sept. 1. With each contribution, customers will receive a promotion card with prizes, including…

  • Man indicted on vehicular homicide of Old Bridge resident

    A Monmouth County Grand Jury has returned an indictment against a Marlboro man charged with the fatal 2014 motor vehicle collision that took the life of a 32-year-old Old Bridge man, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Robert A. Pennington, 51, is charged with one count of second degree vehicular homicide in connection…

  • Registration open for recreation programs

    The Sayreville Recreation Department is accepting registration for its upcoming fall classes, “Little Kids Playtime @ Kennedy Park,” “Recreation Fun Days” and “Mommy and Me.” Sessions will begin the week of Sept. 14. For more information, call 732-390-7092 or 732-390-7096.

  • Dinner program to focus on businesses

    The Central Jersey Business Alliance and Business Resource Center at the East Brunswick Library will present a free dinner program, “How To Successfully Promote Your Business” 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick. Keynote speaker Mike Agugliaro of Gold Medal Service and panel members Darr Kartychak…

  • Historic one-room schoolhouse and barn rising anew in Monroe

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer MONROE — The first phase of a project to restore a historic schoolhouse and barn along Federal Road is well underway, with the frame of the 19th-century schoolhouse already reassembled. According to John Katerba, chairman of the Monroe Township Historic Preservation Commission, the schoolhouse is the only remaining one-room…

  • With a lack of focus, high marks elude ‘American Ultra’

    In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com Mike Howell seems like just an average stoner. He lives with his girlfriend Phoebe, works at a convenience store and has a phobia that keeps him from leaving his small West Virginia town. But there is much more to Mike than meets the eye. He is actually a…

  • Edward Burns writes what he knows (and loves) in TNT’s family-centered cops-and-mobsters drama

    By Lori Acken To ask Edward Burns how long he has been working on his richly detailed new TNT drama Public Morals (premiered Aug. 25) is a complex thing. After all, Burns is a proud Irish-American and native New Yorker, raised on Long Island as the son of an NYPD cop and the greatgrandson of…

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