• Weichert executives named to the 2014/2015 Swanepoel Power 200

    Jim Weichert, founder and co-president of Weichert, Realtors, and Marty Rueter, president of Weichert Real Estate Affiliates Inc., have been selected for the Swanepoel POWER 200: The Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate in 2014/2015. Weichert and Rueter were ranked No. 13 and No. 66, respectively. Both Weichert executives moved up on the list…

  • Raiders boys volleyball team wins five of six to open season

    VARSITY REPORT By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent North Brunswick Township High School’s Hector Gonzalez, middle, rips a shot through Edison High School blockers Sukhpal Singh, left, and Raj Patel during the April 9 volleyball match played at Edison. The visiting Raiders won in straight sets, 2-0. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR North Brunswick Township High School’s boys…

  • Brighton Beach Memoirs

    TOP PICK Center Players, Freehold’s award-winning resident theater company, brings a little bit of old Brooklyn to downtown Freehold with its production of “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” written by Neil Simon and directed by Leslie Hochman of Matawan. This comedy-drama is an autobiographical play set in 1937, when Neil Simon was a teen living in Brighton…

  • Longtime resident leaves behind spirit of volunteerism

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Gae Mangarella NORTH BRUNSWICK — A longtime resident has passed away after a lifetime of service to her community. Gaetana “Gae” Cosimano Mangarella, 92, of North Brunswick, died March 24 at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in Dunlo, Pennsylvania, Mangarella came to New Brunswick in 1939 and…

  • American Legion to collect food items for pantry

    American Legion Post 401 will conduct its annual food drive in support of the South Brunswick Food Pantry’s Feinstein Challenge through April 27. Each year during March and April, the Feinstein Foundation challenges antihunger agencies across the country to raise funds and collect as many food donations as possible. Each food item donated is valued…

  • Florios to be honored at nonprofit fundraiser

    Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Middlesex County will honor former Gov. Jim Florio and Lucinda Florio at a toast 11 a.m.-3 p.m. May 3 at Steakhouse 85, Church St., New Brunswick. The program will include a performance by the New Jersey Youth Chorus. Tickets are $100 and can be purchased at www.casaofmiddlesexcounty.org or by…

  • Annual car show to be held on DeVry campus

    The North Brunswick PBA Local 160 Cops & Rodders annual car show is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 26 at DeVry University, 630 Route 1 South, North Brunswick. Rain date is May 3.

  • Man with ALS documents his journey in new film

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Patrick Sean O’Brien with his son, Sean, who served as Patrick’s motivation for completing his documentary, “TransFatty Lives.” Patrick has been battling ALS for more than 10 years, striving to complete his film for his son the entire time. Patrick Sean O’Brien has been fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…

  • Vendors needed for flea market, bake sale

    The St. Anne’s Society of St. Mary of Mount Virgin Church will hold a flea market and bake sale 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May 31 at the church, 198 Sanford St., on the corner of Remsen Avenue, New Brunswick. Vendors are needed. For more information, call Marion at 732-545-6761 or Donna at 732-297-4654.

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