• Seniors reflect on last year as Rutgers football players

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Rutgers University linebacker Kevin Snyder slowly made his way up the cement stairs leading to the locker room that has remained a fixture of the stadium built in 1938 that the Scarlet Knights’ football team calls home. The two-year starter was one of 16 seniors participating in their last game at…

  • Lady Knights make longest sectional run in team history

    By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent A fter winning the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament for the second straight year, Old Bridge High School’s girls volleyball team reached the quarterfinals of the NJSIAA Public Group IV tournament, where its season ended with a 2-0 loss to Hillsborough High School. Nevertheless, the state sectional run was the longest…

  • Fingertip grab

    TERRY BOUDREAU Spotswood High School’s Chase Fee stretches out to make a fingertip catch for the Chargers during their Nov. 15 Central Jersey Group II playoff game against Delaware Valley Regional High School in Spotswood. Visiting Delaware Valley beat the Chargers, 28-14.

  • Randolph A. Ginman

    Randolph A. Ginman died on Oct. 31, 2014, in the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home in Vineland. Randolph was born in Old Bridge on July 22, 1917. He served three and one-half years with the 29th Infantry Division as a staff sergeant. On D-Day, he landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach in Normandy,…

  • Suzanne Kenyon

    Suzanne Kenyon, 61, of the Mercerville section of Hamilton Township, Mercer County, passed surrounded by loving family members on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in New Brunswick, Suzanne grew up in Metuchen and lived in Edison, North Brunswick and Trenton before settling in Mercerville several years…

  • Girl Scout spearheads Angel Tree gift drive

    Independent Girl Scout and Spotswood High School student Mia Gahrmann, in conjunction with the Spotswood Public Library and the Salvation Army, will conduct the annual Angel Tree drive for local needy children Nov. 29-Dec. 15 at the library, 548 Main St. Each angel tag on the tree is identified with a child’s name, age and…

  • ‘12 Ophelias’

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON “12 Ophelias,” a contemporary look at Shakespeare’s “Ophelia,” will be performed at 8 p.m. Nov. 20-22 and 2 p.m. Nov. 23 at the Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center, 2600 Woodbridge Ave., Edison. Ophelia, played by Casey Chartier-Vignapiano of South River, center, is surrounded by, clockwise from bottom, Catherine Mancheno…

  • Students to perform ‘Knight of One Acts’

    The Old Bridge High School Department of Speech and Drama will present “A Knight of One Acts” 7 p.m. Nov. 20 in the auditorium at the school’s main building, 4209 Route 516. The performance, under the direction of Jennifer O’Reilly, will include three one-act plays. Tickets cost $5 and will be available at the door.

  • Insurance-enrollment aid coming to library

    The East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, will hold a program titled “In-Person Insurance Enrollment” noon-4 p.m. Nov. 22 for individuals interested in health insurance through the federal marketplace. The event will feature in-person assistance going through the process. Trained experts will answer questions. Those who enrolled in the marketplace last year must…

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