• Friends celebrate 100th birthdays together

    By JENNIFER AMATO Managing Editor NORTH BRUNSWICK – Mildred Humes met Elena Pacia 14 years ago when she moved to the North Brunswick Senior Housing building on Hermann Road. More than a decade later, the two women will be celebrating 10 decades worth of lifetime memories: Pacia will turn 100 on June 4, while Humes…

  • Incentives offered to ‘shop local’ in East Brunswick

    Incentives offered to ‘shop local’ in East Brunswick

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK After months of planning and preparation, Mayor Brad Cohen announced that the Shop East Brunswick program will begin on June 1. “Residents can pick up a free card at the township’s Municipal Building, the Senior Center, the East Brunswick Public Library and the Department of Recreation, Parks and Community…

  • Performers of the Week for May 29

    Performers of the Week for May 29

    A soggy week may have washed out some crucial sporting events at our local scholastic fields, but there were some glimmers of bright play when the state tournaments launched. State baseball playoffs open …  Raritan High School received a balanced effort when the Rockets opened the Central Jersey, Group II state tournament with a 6-0…

  • Millstone taps Huss as new superintendent

    Millstone taps Huss as new superintendent

    By Matthew Sockol Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The new superintendent of the Millstone Township K-8 School District will be one of the district’s current administrators. Christopher Huss, principal of the Millstone Township Middle School, has been named the district’s next superintendent of schools. Huss will succeed Scott Feder, who is leaving the district by the…

  • Foundation awards two grants

    Foundation awards two grants

    MILLSTONE – The Millstone Township Foundation for Educational Excellence has awarded two grants for flexible seating classrooms. Since 2002, the foundation has awarded more than $530,300 to schools in the Millstone Township K-8 School District, according to a press release. There are currently more than 60 foundation-funded grant programs running in the district. The latest…

  • Be afraid: “Alien” is back

    Be afraid: “Alien” is back

    By Paul Hall The colony ship Covenant is bound for a remote planet to establish a new society. On the way, the crew hears a strange radio signal and investigates the source. That investigation leads them to a beautiful planet, but something doesn’t seem quite right. Little do they know their intuition is correct and…

  • Tax rate to remain stable in Aberdeen

    Tax rate to remain stable in Aberdeen

    Aberdeen officials have adopted their 2017 municipal budget with no rate increase. During the May 18 meeting, the Aberdeen Council unanimously adopted the new budget for the year. The budget is  $19.53 million and has a 0.536 tax rate-the same as last year, according to the Aberdeen press release. The typical home is accessed at…

  • Peter Noone

    Peter Noone

    Eternally youthful Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone entered the world on Nov. 5, 1947, in Manchester, England, as the son of Joan and Denis Noone. He embarked on his multiplatform show business career as a child studying voice and acting at St. Bede’s College and the Manchester School of Music and Drama. By age 11…

  • Top Michael Jackson impersonator Navi on playing the pop superstar in Lifetime biopic

    By Lori Acken Navi remembers the very moment he knew Michael Jackson would change his life. It was 1983 and the grade-schooler’s parents let their music-loving boy stay up to watch Don Mischer and Suzanne de Passe’s Emmy-winning documentary Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever — the first time Jackson displayed his signature moonwalk dance move,…

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