• Quality football featured again in the GMC Red Division

    Quality football featured again in the GMC Red Division

    Sayreville The Sayreville War Memorial High School football team will focus on winning on the home front first, and then it will concentrate on retaining a state sectional playoff championship. Sayreville will battle its rivals all fall in the highly competitive Greater Middlesex Conference’s (GMC) Red Division. The Bombers finished 10-2 overall and posted a…

  • The youngest Wayans Brother is a family man with a plan in NBC’s new laugher

    The youngest Wayans Brother is a family man with a plan in NBC’s new laugher

    By Lori Acken “Marlon Wayans” and “family sitcom” might seem like one unlikely combo. Wayans, part of the entertainment dynasty responsible for the Scary Movie film franchise and such ribald TV hits as The Wayans Bros. and In Living Color, is the first to admit that, at 45, he still enjoys creating and consuming in-your-face,…

  • News Transcript Business Briefs, Aug. 16

    News Transcript Business Briefs, Aug. 16

    CentraState is set to open the CentraState Health Pavilion at Marlboro in fall 2017. The Pavilion will house the Family Practice of CentraState, as well as a full-service physical, occupational and speech therapy department, laboratory services and specialty physician offices. The Pavilion will also be home to Immediate Care Medical Walk-In of Marlboro, an urgent…

  • The British Invasion served up some intriguing collectibles

    The British Invasion served up some intriguing collectibles

    Blasts from the past The British Invasion served up some intriguing collectibles By Eric Kohanik, ReMIND Magazine The famed British Invasion of the 1960s brought with it a host of items to help promote its wave of popularity. Some of these pop culture stars have become immortalized in collectible magazines, posters and dolls. The most…

  • Single-camera vs. multi-camera sitcoms

    Single-camera vs. multi-camera sitcoms

    Question: What is the difference between a single camera sitcom and a multi-cam sitcom? Are there differences in tone, content, etc. And why do critics seem to make note of it so often? —Unsigned Matt Roush: For me, good comedy is good comedy, whether it’s filmed in front of a studio audience in the traditional…

  • Motor City Madness in “Detroit”

    By Paul Hall In 1967, as race riots swept the nation, Detroit found itself in the middle of a war zone. After a police raid on an illegal club, the fuse was lit and African-American men took to the streets to fight back against the predominantly white police force. The new film Detroit, from Academy…

  • Cosmetology offered in four sessions this fall

    Cosmetology offered in four sessions this fall

    Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools will offer cosmetology courses for the fall at its East Brunswick and Piscataway campuses. Classes begin on Sept. 7 and are held Monday-Friday in two sessions on each campus. In East Brunswick, sessions are from noon to 6:30 p.m. or 3:30-10 p.m. In Piscataway, sessions are held from 8:45…

  • Donate Blood, Get $5 Target eGiftCard

    Donate Blood, Get $5 Target eGiftCard

    The American Red Cross is holding blood drives in Middlesex County and urges blood donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help overcome a chronic summer blood shortage. The blood drives will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Presbyterian Social Center, 270 Woodbridge Ave., Metuchen;…

  • On Campus

    Kayla Jackson of Metuchen was named to the dean‘s list at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, for the fall semester ending in April 2017. This is a distinction earned by students whose cumulative grade point average is 3.71 or higher. Jackson, the daughter of Thais Jackson of Metuchen,  and James Jackson of Scituate, Mass., is a…

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