• Author to sign books at Strawberry Festival

    Local author Bettie Linke will sign and sell her latest work, “Tales of Benny the Beagle,” a children’s book featuring an all-American beagle telling the stories, at the fourth annual St. George’s Strawberry Festival set for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 6 in Ericson Hall at St. George’s Church, 56 Main St., Helmetta. Linke’s first self-published…

  • Library will sponsor early ‘POV’ screenings

    The Monroe Township Public Library 2015 POV Summer Film and Discussion Series, featuring showings of the latest “POV” documentaries before their national broadcast premieres on PBS, will open with “Return to Homs” at 1 p.m. June 2 at the library, 4 Municipal Plaza. The film, directed by Talal Derki, captures the besieged Syrian city through…

  • Callers in some phone scams impersonate attorney general

    The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs is warning of a scam in which con artists falsely claim to represent the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and call unsuspecting victims to demand immediate payment of a nonexistent debt. “This is the latest in a long line of government impostor scams in which criminals coldcall their…

  • Nursing award

    PHOTO COURTESY OF REFORMED CHURCH HOME Catherine Mordaunt, a longtime nurse at the Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge, has been named RN Supervisor of the Year by the New Jersey Association of Directors of Nursing Administration for Long-Term Care.

  • Workshop to address disaster planning

    The Middlesex County Office of Emergency Management and Preparedness, in conjunction with the Middlesex County Long Term Recovery Group, will hold a lecture, “Individual and Family Emergency Preparedness Training: A New Framework of Thinking,” 6:30-8 p.m. May 27 at the Sayreville Fire Academy, 1001 Fire Academy Drive, Sayreville. The workshop is geared toward individuals and…

  • Consortium can expand reach of East Brunswick library

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The East Brunswick Public Library is preparing to join a major library sharing organization, giving more choice to library cardholders. The organization, Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium (LMxAC), will make it possible for the East Brunswick library to pool resources with 24 other libraries. This move will…

  • Sick teen put last efforts into helping others

    Last May, in the midst of a blossoming spring, I wrote about my son, Alex. I was looking forward to the promise of the new season with hope shining in my heart. Alex had been diagnosed with brain cancer, medulloblastoma, the year before. His prognosis was so encouraging and his disease under control. Or so…

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    FRANK GALIPO Brightly colored flowers were for sale when the Shrewsbury Garden Club conducted its annual Gardeners Market at the Shrewsbury gazebo.

  • Freecycling treasure hunt keeps used goods out of landfill

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer Pickers look through items donated to a freecycling event held in the parking lot of the Crystal Springs Family Aquatic Center on May 17. The event was sponsored by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission. For those who picked through the piles in the hopes of finding anything…

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