• Golf-event proceeds to aid homeless pets

    New Beginnings Animal Rescue, 706-R Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, will host its fundraising Golf Classic Aug. 25 at Glenwood Country Club, Route 9 south, Old Bridge. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. Shotgun start for the scramble format is set for noon. Prize categories will include low/high gross, team awards, longest drive and closest to…

  • Rutgers seeks parents, adolescents for study

    Researchers from Rutgers University are studying parent-child communication and how it promotes resiliency in children. The research team is seeking parents and their adolescent children to spend one hour completing two brief questionnaires and an interaction. To be eligible to participate, the child should be between the ages of 12 and 19; parents must either…

  • New Brunswick offers prepaid parking option

    The New Brunswick Parking Authority now offers prepaid and reserved parking at the Civic Square parking deck and at select valet locations after 5 p.m. Motorists can use the online service ParkMe to pay in advance and reserve parking by entering the zip code “08901” and making a selection from the available options on parkme.com.…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    The Venetian Care & Rehabilitation Center is set to open in September in South Amboy for those making the transition from hospital to home, or those seeking longterm care due to illness or injury. The 93,000-square-foot facility can accommodate 60 rehabilitation residents and 120 nursing home residents organized into “neighborhoods and households” for personalized care…

  • Bowling event scores big for Middlesex food banks

    More than 375 bowlers participated in the fifth annual Bowl for Hunger last week to support 28 food banks in the Middlesex County area. State Assemblyman Craig J. Coughlin (D-Middlesex), Raritan Bay Medical Center President and CEO Michael D’Agnes, and Middlesex Water Co. President and CEO Dennis Doll attended the event, held in two sessions…

  • Beatles tribute to conclude concert series

    The Old Bridge Cultural Arts will close out its free Summer Concert Series 2014 with the Lonely Hearts Club Band in a tribute to the Beatles at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at Geick Park, off Route 516. In the event of rain, the concert will be canceled. Audience members should bring a lawn chair and…

  • Quota for affordable housing expected to rise in Old Bridge

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The township would be required to provide an additional 643 affordable housing units under new rules expected to be adopted by the state, Mark Remsa, consulting planner for the Old Bridge Planning Board, briefed the Township Council on the proposed Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) rules during…

  • Salsa band next up at Monroe concerts

    The Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission’s 2014 Music in the Park free summer concert series will continue with a performance by Grupo Arcano, a salsa band from Brooklyn, N.Y., at 6 p.m. Aug. 7 in the open-grove gazebo on the lake at Thompson Park, Monroe. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be…

  • Police to target drunken drivers through Labor Day

    Law enforcement officers around the state will be cracking down on drunken driving as part of the national “Driver Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. From Aug. 16 to Sept. 2, local and state law enforcement officers will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. Launched across…

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