• Festival marks colorful beginning of spring in South River

    Festival marks colorful beginning of spring in South River

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Music, traditions, modern Indian dance, food and colored powder were the focus of the Saraswati Cultural Association’s second annual Holi festival. “Holi is a spring festival, also known as the festival of colors or the festival of sharing love. The festival signifies the victory of good over…

  • Students to present more than 60 films during festival

    Students to present more than 60 films during festival

    The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools (MCVTS) will hold its third annual Reel Film Festival featuring student works at 6:30 p.m. on May 4 and 5 at the East Brunswick campus, Ryders Lane. More than 60 films, videos, photography and audio presentations by 46 digital film students will be featured. Tickets are $10 for adults and…

  • Library to hold jewelry sale May 6

    Library to hold jewelry sale May 6

    The Friends of the Spotswood Library is holding a spring jewelry sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 6 at the library, 548 Main St., Spotswood. Admission is free. Most items will be priced under $10.

  • Elks lodge to open soup kitchen on May 6

    Elks lodge to open soup kitchen on May 6

    Jamesburg Elks Lodge 2180 will hold the grand opening of its Elks Care-Elks Share Community Lunch Program from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 6 at the lodge,74 W. Railroad Ave., Jamesburg. The soup kitchen is open to the public from the surrounding communities. For more information, call Tammy Aarseth at 732-853-6009.

  • J.P. Stevens teacher awarded educational grant

    J.P. Stevens teacher awarded educational grant

    EDISON — A $2,500 grant will help further students’ understanding of “making greener choices” and learn the value of maintaining, marketing and budgeting the John P. Stevens High School greenhouse and farm stand. Students in the registered Eco School’s Multiply Disabled program will assist with operating the farm stand that will feature produce and products from the…

  • Old Bridge Library to offer technology classes

    Old Bridge Library to offer technology classes

    The Old Bridge Library will offer technology classes in May about popular topics including podcasting, Pixlr online photo editing and digital magazines. The interactive sessions will be presented by the Llbrary’s Digital Resources Manager Jonathan Upton. There will be a podcasting class at 2 p.m. on May 6, an online magazine workshop at 11 a.m.…

  • Mamie Van Doren

    Mamie Van Doren

    By Lucie M. Winborne, ReMind Magazine She’s been called a lot of things — Miss Eight Ball, Miss Palm Springs, the Blonde Bombshell, even one of “The Three M’s” (in conjunction with platinum-tressed stars Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe). But one thing no one would ever call Joan Lucille Olander, a.k.a. Mamie Van Doren, is…

  • Meet Ricky Whittle of the divine new visual feast ‘American Gods’

    Meet Ricky Whittle of the divine new visual feast ‘American Gods’

    By Kellie Freeze Neil Gaiman’s best-selling fantasy novel American Gods comes to Starz on Sunday, April 30, in an eye-popping and fantastic series from co-creators, writers and showrunners Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Heroes) and Michael Green (Logan). In this modern tale, war is brewing between Old Gods, whose backgrounds come from global mythology, and new deities,…

  • Five Star Professional honors Ginger Boyle

    Five Star Professional honors Ginger Boyle

    Ginger Boyle has accomplished what only a small percentage of real estate agents in the New Jersey-area have achieved. Boyle of Next Age M3 Realty Group is featured in a special section of the March issue of New Jersey Monthly as a 2017 Five Star Real Estate Agent award winner. Five Star Professional partnered with…

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