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Casino Night, Basket Raffle set for Feb. 28
The St. Thomas the Apostle Home School Association will sponsor a Basket Raffle and Casino Night fundraiser at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at Battleground Country Club, Manalapan. Tickets cost $80 per person and include $100 in “fun money,” a cocktail buffet, carving stations and a dessert bar. For more information and sponsorship opportunities, call Maria…
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Talk to shed light on Lower Raritan history
Jason J. Slesinski, Sayreville borough historian, will offer a free public lecture titled “Along the Raritan: South Amboy to New Brunswick” at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Sayreville Senior Center, 423 Main St. The event is sponsored by the Sayreville Historical Society. Discussion will focus on the history of the Lower Raritan River, from…
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Prima ballerinas
PHOTO COURTESY OF DANCE STOP Dancers at Dance Stop, which has locations in Monroe and Parlin, were treated to an instructional class with Michaela DePrince on Feb. 5 at the Parlin studio. DePrince is a 19-year-old esteemed ballerina who was featured in the dance documentary “First Position.”
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Hearts and wallets open up on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day arrived each year with a heavy price when I was an elementary school student. The holiday didn’t hit me financially — my parents swallowed the cost of the “Star Wars” cards that I gave to classmates — but emotionally. An uneasy sense of anticipation tarnished my annual march to distribute valentines from one…
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Brushing up
FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Cole Armond of Little Silver gets a lesson on the proper way to brush his teeth from dental hygienist Amanda Jucks during Give Kids a Smile Day at KidZdent in Old Bridge on Feb. 7.
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Professor to speak about Israeli culture
The variety of ethnic traditions in contemporary Israeli culture will be explored by Galit Hasan-Rokem — the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor Emerita of Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and this semester’s Bildner Visiting Scholar at Rutgers — during a lecture at 4 p.m. Feb. 20 in the Douglass Campus Center, 100 George…
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Thomasville Home Furnishings announces store closings, sale
Thomasville Home Furnishings, one of New Jersey’s most distinguished furniture store operations, will close two of their six store locations in Eatontown and East Hanover. A storeclosing sale will begin on Feb. 15. Owners Ed Massood and Michael Massood announced they have made the strategic business decision to close both stores and begin a search…
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Smith-Fox
Evan Fox and Lauren Smith Richard and Sheri Smith of Great Neck, N.Y., announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Taylor Smith, to Evan Harry Fox, son of Alan and Donna Fox of Old Bridge, formerly of Marlboro. The future bride is a graduate of Great Neck North High School. She earned a Bachelor of…
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Timperman–Reisig
Laura Patricia Timperman and Stephen Richard Reisig Thomas and Patricia Timperman of Pennington announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Patricia Timperman, to Stephen Richard Reisig, son of Sandy-Mathew and Laura Reisig of Aberdeen. The future bride is a graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a…
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