• Lighting celebration planned in Dayton

    The Village of Dayton will hold its 12th annual Holiday Lighting Celebration, sponsored by the Dayton Village Citizens Coalition, starting at 3:45 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Slack Carroll Historic House, 354 Georges Road, Dayton. Scouts and other children will hang natural ornaments for the birds on the trees around the “five points” in Dayton.…

  • Wife, police officers save life of man in cardiac arrest

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two South Brunswick police officers are being credited with saving the life of a 61-year-old township man who suffered sudden cardiac arrest at his home last month. Police Chief Raymond Hayducka recognized officers Jason Gassman and Bryan Sites on Nov. 24 through an announcement on Nixle. The…

  • Kiddie Academy hosts toy, mitten drive

    Kiddie Academy, 2400 Route 27, North Brunswick, will be holding a toy drive through Dec. 15 and a mitten drive Dec. 13-30. All items will be donated to local shelters.

  • Karate school to host Dec. 7 vendor fair

    Family Karate Super Center, 1600 Jersey Ave., North Brunswick, will host a vendor fair 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Dec. 7. For more information, call 732-543-1785.

  • Project plans to prevent groundwater pollution

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Efforts are underway to reduce pollution in local waterways. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program has conducted assessments for East Brunswick, Milltown, New Brunswick, North Brunswick and South Brunswick. The project involved providing suggestions to intercept and treat water runoff with porous asphalt, rain gardens and other…

  • Local families celebrate Adoption Day

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Dennis and Tara Carroll celebrate National Adoption Day with their children, Jack, 8; Nathan, 3; the newly adopted Dylan, 2; and the soon-to-be-adopted Julia, who is 10 months old. In what officials described as the year’s “happiest day in the courthouse,” 10 local families finalized 16 adoptions at the Middlesex…

  • Police conclude probe into fatal car accident

    The vehicle driven by a popular North Brunswick schoolteacher who was killed in an October car accident veered off the highway for unknown reasons, according to the results of a police investigation. The South Brunswick Police Department Traffic Safety Bureau recently concluded its investigation of the Oct. 8 crash that claimed the life of Aubrey…

  • Ice skating season in full swing

    By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer Skaters make their way around the ice rink at Middlesex County’s Roosevelt Park, Edison, on Nov. 22. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR I ndoor and outdoor ice skating venues across central New Jersey are gearing up for another season of figure eights, hockey games and family fun. Many rinks and…

  • Report ranks N.J. among top five states with highest listing price

    Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has released its 2014 Home Listing Report, which found New Jersey to have the fourth highest average listing price in the nation, at $440,354 for a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home. The Coldwell Banker Home Listing Report, which additionally ranked 128 real estate markets within New Jersey, named Chatham Township as having the…

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