• All the single buyers

    It’s tougher for unmarried buyers to get into the market. Here is how to appeal to them. By Madhusmita Bora CTW Features Single buyers have been one of the biggest casualties of the economic downturn and the housing bust. Rising home prices and stricter lending rules have kept many young professionals out of the market.…

  • Values, long underwater, finally surfacing

    How rising real estate prices are affecting homeowners who have been stuck underwater on their mortgages Good news on the foreclosure front: The number of American homeowners who are seriously underwater on their mortgages —the home’s debt being at least 25 percent higher than that property’s estimated market value — is at its lowest level…

  • Hawks’ Cooke wins MOC 400 hurdles with personal best

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent J.P. Stevens High School’s Mark Cooke is clear of the field as he wins the 400-meter intermediate hurdles championship at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions on June 4 at Frank Jost Field in South Plainfield. Cooke’s winning time was 52.09. J.P. STEVENS O ne second might not mean much in this…

  • Plays-in-the-Park opens season with ‘Sunset Boulevard’

    Plays-in-the-Park will present the musical “Sunset Boulevard” as the first production of its 2014 season. Performances will run June 18-28, with no show on June 22. All shows begin at 8:30 p.m. and are staged at the Stephen J. Capestro Amphitheater at 1 Pine Drive in Roosevelt Park, Edison. “Sunset Boulevard” is a lush and…

  • Gus Theophilakos

    Mr. Theophilakos, 88, died June 2, 2014, at Foothill Acres Rehabilitation Center in Hillsborough. Born in Perth Amboy, he resided there for most of his life before moving to Lakewood 10 years ago. He was employed as a machine operator with Chevron Oil Company in Perth Amboy for 38 years before retiring in 1985. He…

  • Seniors soar to Eagle rank

    Boy Scouts David Jordan, left to right, Tyler Kerekgyarto and Timothy Li of Troop 12 in Edison all recently earned the rank of Eagle. PHOTO COURTESY OF PHIL TOSCANO EDISON — Three Boy Scouts from Troop 12 in Edison recently received their Eagle badges during a Court of Honor held as part of the troop’s…

  • Raconteur Radio sets Holmesian production

    Raconteur Radio will present “The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Staged Radio Play” at 8 p.m. June 14 at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse, 491 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will investigate the legend of a supernatural hound. The production will feature Carlyle Owens, Michael Jarmus and Laurence Mintz, as well as theatrical…

  • Library to host history, family crafts programs

    The Friends of the Edison Public Library, in conjunction with the Metuchen/Edison Historical Society, will host the free program, “Edison: Then and Now,” on June 14. Walter Stochel, local resident and treasurer of the Historical Society, will present an entertaining look at how the Edison of today differs from the Edison of yesteryear from 1-2:30…

  • Choir plans ‘Psalm Enchanted Evening’ at Anshe Emeth in New Brunswick

    Makhelat Hamercaz, the Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey, will present “Psalm Enchanted Evening” — a set list of psalms composed in a wide variety of places and times — on June 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., in New Brunswick. General admission is $18 per person in advance;…

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