• Seniors offering visit to Niagara Falls

    Our Lady of Victories Seniors will sponsor a Sept. 8-12 trip to Niagara Falls, Canada. The excursion will feature four nights’ lodging in Niagara Falls, four breakfasts and four full dinners, including dinner at the revolving Skylon Tower and the “Oh Canada Eh?” dinner show. There will be an all-day tour of Niagara, including Niagaraon…

  • New Brunswick H.S. to hold 50th reunion

    The New Brunswick High School class of 1964 will host a 50th reunion Oct. 18. Interested classmates may email Vito LoSardo at [email protected] or call 703-887- 4498.

  • Registration open for vacation Bible school

    The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 3139 Route 516, Old Bridge, will hold a vacation Bible school (VBS) 6-8 p.m. July 21-25. Youngsters entering preschool to fourth grade are invited to attend. A family dinner will be offered 5:30-6 p.m. This year’s VBS theme is “Weird Animals: Where Jesus’ Love Is One of a…

  • Concert, fireworks set in South Amboy

    Celebrate the Amboys is scheduled for July 3 at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park, John T. O’Leary Blvd. A free concert, featuring the High Street Band, the Dayton Five and Brian O’Connor’s All-Star Band, will begin at 6 p.m. There will be food vendors and children’s rides on-site. A fireworks display is scheduled for 9:20 p.m.…

  • Synthetic ice will provide year-round use of arena

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — A nearly $400,000 project is expected to transform the Old Bridge Ice Arena into a year-round practice space for the township’s 11 hockey teams. “Right now, you have an arena that operates for six months out of the year and basically is a white elephant for the…

  • Student of fire-ravaged school soars skyward

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Fifth-grader Gabby Martini, right, and James Monroe Elementary School teacher Amy Fuentes wave to nearby onlookers as Nick Mazzocchi pilots the hot-air balloon. The image of an American flag and the school sign in front of the fire-ravaged James Monroe Elementary School left a sense of “hope and happiness” for…

  • Sandy grant targets storm resilience

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Fifty-four towns in the Raritan River basin will benefit from a $1.17 million federal grant that will fund flood mitigation and green infrastructure projects in each municipality. The grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) was awarded to Rutgers University through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation…

  • Heroin crisis spurs antidote action

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer Alisa Martinez, a patrol officer in Ocean Township, holds up a spray dispenser for Narcan, which police in central New Jersey have begun using to reverse drug overdoses. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Within 48 hours of Ocean Township receiving the heroin antidote Narcan, its police force saved the life of…

  • Bulletin Board

    – Rock concert to aid  Monroe youngster The New Jersey alternative rock band Garden State Line will perform a benefit concert 8 p.m. June 27 at the Strand Center for the Arts, Lakewood. A generous portion of the proceeds from the show will support Taylor “Iron Man” Barta, a 6-year-old Monroe boy who has been…

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