• East Brunswick’s Esposito qualifies for PGA Champions Tour

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Monroe Township’s Frank Esposito has every reason to be smiling as he checks over his clubs at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe. He has qualified to play on the Champions Tour in 2015. FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Frank Esposito Jr. of East Brunswick is about to begin the journey of his life and…

  • College students salute veterans

    PHOTOS COURTESY OF TOM PETERSON Above left: U.S. Air Force veteran Edith Pletzner, left, chats with Halimat Oshun of Iselin, a Democracy House student from Middlesex County College (MCC), during a recent visit to the Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park by members of MCC’s Veterans and Servicemembers Association and Democracy House. Above: Bill O’Brien,…

  • Coffey break

    PHOTOS BY FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Retiring Principal Linda Coffey is embraced by PTO Co-President Alison Napolitano, above left, during a celebration of Coffey’s years of service at Harry S. Truman Elementary School in Parlin on Dec. 22. Coffey, right, receives a hug from physical education teacher Caroline Noppenberger. Coffey dances with students at the celebration.

  • Reformed Church Home earns Deficiency-Free honors in annual state survey

    BACK TO BUSINESS News of Greater Media Newspapers’ advertisers Kate Shepard, executive director and administrator at Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge, is pleased to announce a Deficiency-Free Rating attained in the annual survey of skilled nursing facilities conducted by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. “This honor places Reformed Church Home…

  • Audiences embrace controversial film at Ocean Township theater

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Moviegoers proudly declared their patriotism as they visited the Middlebrook Galleria Cinema during the week of Christmas to view the controversial Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy, “The Interview.” “How dare you tell Americans what they can and can’t do?” Barnegat resident Susan Ross, who traveled an…

  • Essay contest open to sophomores, juniors

    The Jersey Blue Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution announced the third annual contest for the Middlesex County Good Citizenship Award. The contest is open to all Middlesex County high school sophomores and juniors who are in good academic standing with a “C” average and above, and who exemplify the characteristics of a…

  • Holocaust author to speak at library

    Charlotte Bonelli, author of “Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family From Nazi Germany,” will appear at 1 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Monroe Township Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza. The event, co-sponsored by the Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee, is part of the library’s Meet the Author series. One week after Kristallnacht in…

  • Old Bridge food bank receives local support

    Kate Shepard, executive director of Reformed Church Home (RCH), Old Bridge, recently presented a check for $500, along with several hundred pounds of food, to representatives from the Food Bank of Old Bridge during a pre-Thanksgiving celebration. Rose Welsh, a food bank supervisor, and Lollita Andrews, a volunteer, accepted the donations, which were collected from…

  • South African cuisine snapped up

    By JACK MURTHA Correspondent Warren Pala’s Braaitime churns out about 10,000 pounds of biltong every month. Pala recently quit his corporate technology job and expanded the Keansburg-based business. I t took a move to America for Warren Pala to learn — and eventually master — how to make a staple of South African cuisine. And…

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