• Area schools and camps have so much to offer

    Schools & Camps 2 Around the Corner Art Center Academy College Coaches (ACC), located in Morganville, provides professional college coaching to high school students and their parents.ACC focuses on finding the colleges that meet the student’s academic, career and social requirements.ACC will alleviate the stress, procrastination and concerns over finding the school that will be…

  • Nominate a ‘hero’ for home makeover

    HGTV is now casting for its second season of “Cousins Undercover.” Residents can nominate a local hero who deserves a surprise home makeover. Nominees can be someone who helps their community through their work, such as firefighters, police officers, teachers, nurses, military personnel or coaches; someone who gives back to the neighborhood; or someone who…

  • Gala to benefit those with special needs

    The Sayreville Association for Brain Injured Children will hold its 19th annual charity ball from noon to 5 p.m. March 2 at the Grand Marquis, Route 9, Old Bridge. Tickets are $100 per person and include a cocktail hour, followed by dinner and music with an open bar. The nonprofit organization provides year-round recreation programs…

  • Tooth Fairy

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON Jennifer Diakunczak of Edison, left, and the Tooth Fairy, otherwise known as Christine Etter of Old Bridge, teach Aman Mitra of Metuchen the proper way to brush during Middlesex County College’s “Give Kids a Smile” program Feb. 7, which offered free dental care to more than 50 children in the…

  • Betty J. Podlesny

    Mrs. Podlesny, 76, of Sayreville, formerly of East Brunswick, died Feb. 11, 2014, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1998, she was employed as assistant bank manager at Central Jersey Savings and Loan, South River, where she worked for 25 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Chester F.…

  • Thomas P. Lewis Sr.

    Mr. Lewis, 69, of Sayreville, died Feb. 13, 2014, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1996, he was employed as a class-A mechanic for Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), Sayreville, where he worked for 32 years. Surviving are four children and their spouses, Thomas Jr. and Eileen and Michele and Glenn Wagner, all…

  • Mary Louise Cesare Eastman

    Mrs. Eastman, 82, of Spotswood, died Jan. 25, 2014, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Walter Eastman; two children, John Eastman, and his wife, Gail, of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Luanne Kleiman, and her husband, Steven, of Granger, Ind.; a sister, Betty Rovell of Hazlet; and four grandchildren. Cremation was…

  • Jane McCormick Wolfe

    Mrs. Wolfe, 80, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 12, 2014, in University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. She was predeceased by her husband, John J. “Jack” Wolfe; two brothers, John and Michael; and a sister, Catherine Yurick. Surviving are three sons, John Wolfe, and his wife, Renee, of Old Bridge, Michael Wolfe of East…

  • Randy Walters

    Mr. Walters, 53, of Spotswood, formerly of Old Bridge, died Feb. 13, 2014, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was employed as a millwright at SWM International Inc., Spotswood, where he worked for 22 years. He was predeceased by his father, Lester Walters. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Eschrich Walters; his mother,…

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