• Italian students can apply for summer trip

    The Italian Cultural Society of North Brunswick is sponsoring a scholarship for any North Brunswick resident age 18 or older who is presently enrolled in an Italian program and has been for four years. The scholarship will afford the student the opportunity to study at the University of Urbino in Italy for six weeks during…

  • High-schooler’s costume design featured in Princeton play

    Kimani Isaac Kimani Isaac of North Brunswick has won Princeton University’s Mc- Carter Theatre Costume Design Competition. A sophomore at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School district’s School of the Arts in East Brunswick, Kimani had to draw a design for a character and a specific scene in the play. She chose “Fences” by…

  • Project illuminates prolific career of Thomas Edison

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Thomas Edison Beyond the status Thomas Edison holds in his namesake town, interest in the life and prolific career of Edison and his myriad inventions burns brightly throughout the world. Perhaps no one knows this — or the details of Edison’s achievements — better than the group of scholars whose…

  • Preliminary budget carries tax hike in So. Brunswick

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer South Brunswick officials are reviewing a preliminary municipal budget that would raise taxes by $113 on the average home. As it stands, the 2014 tab totals $48.8 million and includes a 6-cent increase in the municipal tax rate. That would raise the tax bill by $9.42 per month on a…

  • Making love last, for better or worse

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Dr. William and Nancy Ainslie, who met as second-graders and reconnected in their late teens, discuss their marriage of more than 70 years. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR The sentimentality of Valentine’s Day can portray love as an ethereal dream state, rife with passion. But as true love plods along with…

  • Cash-saving hybrids

    Though most are priced higher than comparable gas-only models, several hybrid cars can prove to be more cost effective over a typical ownership period By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features LEXUS CT While many hybrid car buyers choose them to help reduce their carbon footprints for environmental reasons, far more motorists purchase the gas/electric-powered models to…

  • Q&A

    In and out with ease with Sharon Peters Q: My mother-in-law is a good and cautious driver. But she has begun having trouble, due to a failing left knee, getting out of her car. Any suggestions? A: Occupational therapists recommend the HandyBar. It’s a heavy-duty steel handle that she’ll slip into the U slot of…

  • Foot-friendly neighborhoods

    Mixed-use, walkable communities are all the rage for modern homebuyers — and for good reason By Erik J. Martin CTW Features A mericans favor walkable, mixeduse neighborhoods that provide shorter commutes, per the results of a National Association of Realtors survey. According to the study, 60 percent of those polled prefer a community with a…

  • Weichert executives named to the 2013 Swanepoel Power 200

    Jim Weichert, founder and president of Weichert, Realtors, and Marty Rueter, president of Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, have been selected for the Swanepoel Power 200: The Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate in 2013. Weichert and Rueter were ranked No. 20 and No. 85, respectively. Weichert was recognized in the “Brokerage” category for his…

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