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Football teams uphold tradition of Thanksgiving games
VARSITY REPORT By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Metuchen High School’s Rachel Suss added the NJSIAA Group I state championship to her impressive list of wins during the 2014 cross-country season on Nov. 15 at Holmdel Park. Suss’ next race is at the Meet of Champions on Nov. 22 back at Holmdel. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Despite the Thanksgiving…
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Epichorus to perform at temple on Nov. 22
The Epichorus will be the initial event of the ninth season of the Ohavei Tarbut (Lovers of Jewish Culture) Series during an evening of music at 8 p.m. Nov. 22 at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Created and curated by Rabbi Zach Fredman of The New Shul in New York City…
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Planners to study Hess properties
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer A redevelopment study has been authorized for several Woodbridge-based Hess properties that are being sold by the oil company. Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac said Hess is marketing properties both in Woodbridge Proper and Port Reading, including the office building on Route 9 that is easily identifiable from the New Jersey…
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Youngsters help peers through UNICEF
EDISON — As third-graders at the township’s Wardlaw-Hartridge School learned the difference between wants and needs during recent class discussions, they decided that helping needy children can be even sweeter than candy. The students in Ellen Colandrea’s class took part in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, a program that has served as a “Kids Helping Kids” campaign…
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Christmas cookie dinner party slated
The Brunswick Women’s Connection will hold a Christmas Cookie Extravaganza Dinner Party 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the East Brunswick Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Packaged, home-baked and gift-worthy cookies will be on sale. Inspirational speaker Leigh Grimm will share her story, “Jesus Is Jewish and So Am I.” Tickets cost $24, all-inclusive. RSVP…
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Book event offered for junior high students
The Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., will present “Skullduggery: Scalp-Tingling Tales for Youngins (and the Young at Heart)” at 2 p.m. Nov. 23. Four acclaimed storytellers will unearth a variety of beastly bones, nasty noggins and other grave secrets with authors Aaron Starmer, “The Riverman”; Clay McLeod Chapman, “The Tribe”; Claire Legrand, “The Cavendish…
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College receives high marks
EDISON — Middlesex County College is among the nation’s top producers of associate degrees in education and criminal justice, according to a report in “Community College Week,” a higher-education newspaper. The college graduated 70 education majors in 2013, making it 42nd in the nation, and 125 criminal justice majors, placing the college 33rd on the…
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Group seeks help bringing arts programs to children
By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer METUCHEN — After nearly a year of successful events, Family Arts of Metuchen has made it clear that the borough’s artsy offerings are not just for grownups. Children flocked, parents in tow, to the Snowflake Series over the winter and the Sunflower Series during the summer months. Now, the fledgling…
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Toys for Tots drive comes to Menlo Park
The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve will collect new, unwrapped toys for its Toys for Tots program every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 28-Dec. 22, in the Santa Court, Nordstrom wing, at the Menlo Park Mall, Edison. Cash donations also will be accepted. For more information, call Eddy Androvich at 908-565-1339.
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