• A house divided

    By Erik J. Martin CTW Features Divorce can be a difficult process — especially when real estate is involved. Here are strategies to ponder if you’re planning to divorce and divvy up your properties. They say breaking up is hard to do. But it’s even harder when a couple seeking a split own a home.…

  • Computers, TVs must be properly recycled

    The Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management is reminding residents that the recycling of computers and televisions is required by state law. Proper recycling of consumer electronics eliminates the improper dumping of such items in parks and open spaces. For a list of drop-off locations, visit www.nj.gov/dep/dshw/ewaste/index.html or call 866-DEP-KNOW. For more information, contact…

  • Mapleton Preserve cleanup scheduled

    The Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands will hold a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service work session from noon to 3 p.m. on Jan. 19. Volunteers will be clearing small trees, brush, vines and trash at the Mapleton Preserve/ D&R Canal State Park Headquarters, 145 Mapleton Road, Kingston. Participants should bring tools such as saws,…

  • Counselors sought for sexual-assault survivors

    The Middlesex County Center for Empowerment is seeking community members interested in volunteering as confidential sexual-violence advocates. A 50-hour training course will prepare individuals to answer the center’s 24-hour hotline and provide in-person support to survivors of sexual violence at police stations, hospitals and courts in Middlesex County. Since the volunteer program began in 1998,…

  • Red light camera program goes dark in Garden State

    New Jersey’s automated photo-enforcement pilot program, otherwise known as red-light cameras, came to an end at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 16. Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon (RMonmouth), who led an effort to ensure the program would not be renewed past its planned expiration date, said: “It is a great day for the motorists of New Jersey. The state…

  • East Brunswick to improve Rues Lane intersection

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Township officials are seeking to make improvements to an intersection riddled with potholes over the next few years. At its Dec. 22 meeting, the Township Council authorized professional engineering services by CME Associates for the design of the intersection and traffic signal improvements at Rues Lane and…

  • Caruso sparks unbeaten Lady Vikings bowlers

    VARSITY REPORT By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent St. Joseph High School’s Bryce Lane drives around a Monmouth Regional defender during early-round action in the Albert E. Martin Buc Basketball Classic. The Falcons advanced to the final, where they lost their first game of the year to host Red Bank Regional. FRANK GALIPO SOUTH BRUNSWICK South Brunswick…

  • Swimming at the Ritz

    New Jersey Repertory Company presents “Swimming at the Ritz,” based on the life of socialite Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, who was appointed the U.S. ambassador to France in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton. The show will have a limited engagement from Jan. 8 to Feb. 1. Harriman was dubbed the ultimate “party girl”…

  • High school to collect prom dresses, accessories

    The South Brunswick High School (SBHS) Viking Closet will hold its fourth annual Sisterhood of the Traveling Prom Dress drive through Feb. 5. The Viking Closet will accept donations of prom/semiformal dresses, jewelry, purses and shoes in the main lobby of South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, during school hours. The actual…

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