• County announces winners of senior art competition

    Winners of the Middlesex County Senior Art Contest will be honored during a ceremony on Aug. 14. The Middlesex County Freeholder Board and its Office of Aging and Disabled Services held their annual competition for professional and non-professional artists over age 60. Local winners include: Acrylic: 2nd Place Professional, Necati Itez of Monroe for “Hoopoe…

  • Tiki Night

    Above left: Kathy Kuchie of Woodbridge, left, and Mike Green of South Amboy, right, hold the bar while Bill Reuter of South Plainfield does the limbo during Tiki Night at the South Amboy Elks lodge on July 25. Above right: Kathy Kuchie of Woodbridge, left to right, Mike Green of South Amboy and Tony Cusumano…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization that raises money to support various healthcare services at Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC), recently appointed Linda M. Hill, Pharm.D., as its new executive director. Hill, a resident of Princeton, previously served as senior director of development for major gifts for the Princeton Healthcare System Foundation.…

  • Residents object to closure of hospital access road

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The sudden closure of the emergency access road into Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC) concerns residents of Maher Manor and the Chuck Costello Complex. The 160 or so residents who live in Maher Manor are age 62 and older. The Chuck Costello Complex, which is comprised of…

  • Pageants provide platform for crusade against Alzheimer’s

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Danielle Micale of Milltown earned the title of Mrs. Northeast International 2014 by highlighting Alzheimer’s disease in honor of her late grandmother, Mildred McLaughlin. PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIELLE MICALE MILLTOWN — A beauty is working in various ways to slay a deadly beast. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause…

  • Drop the labels, we are all Americans

    When you put a label on something, you separate it from everything else around it. For example, if you have a box of shoes and you label one pair “brown shoes,” you have a box of shoes that contain one pair of brown shoes, separating them from the rest. We have been doing the same…

  • Increase funding for housing vouchers

    For thousands of New Jerseyans with mental illness and other disabilities, housing choice vouchers are a lifeline that helps them live in safe, independent homes and avoid homelessness. Housing vouchers provide rental assistance for affordable permanent housing, a steppingstone that makes it possible for people to rebuild their lives and work toward recovery. Many of…

  • Participants sought for Sayreville 5K run/walk

    The Sayreville Recreation Department’s annual Hit the Bricks Run 5K Fun Run/Walk is scheduled for Oct. 10 at the Capik Nature Preserve, Bordentown Avenue, Sayreville. For more information, call 732-390- 7092 or 732-390-7096. To register, log on to www.sayrevillerec.com.

  • Library to sponsor Comic Con Aug. 15

    The Old Bridge Public Library will host its Comic Con celebration 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug.15 at the library Main Branch, Route 516 and Cottrell Road. The event is designed to tie in with the summer reading program theme, “Every Hero Has a Story.” All ages are welcome. The day will feature a “Doctor Who” celebration,…

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