• Woman’s Club to meet, discuss Arbor Day

    Woman’s Club to meet, discuss Arbor Day

    The East Brunswick Woman’s Club will hold its next gathering at 7:30 p.m. April 11 at East Brunswick Fire District 1, Civic Center Station, 303 Rues Lane, East Brunswick. There will be a presentation on Arbor Day. After a brief meeting, refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call Linda…

  • Youngsters invited to enter photo, poetry contests

    Youngsters invited to enter photo, poetry contests

    The Monroe Township Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, is sponsoring photography and poetry contests for children. The 2017 theme is “Cities.” All photos and poems must have a city theme. The photography contest is open to children in grades kindergarten-8. The poetry contest is open to youngsters in grades 3-8. Photos and poems must be submitted…

  • Weight loss to be topic at library presentation

    Weight loss to be topic at library presentation

    A program titled “Get the Skinny on Weight Loss” is planned for 7 p.m. April 6 at the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center. Topics will include the reasons some individuals seem to lose weight effortlessly, and others struggle to be successful. The interactive program will present some of the key factors…

  • Weather issues aside, Mustangs preparing for start of baseball season

    Weather issues aside, Mustangs preparing for start of baseball season

    By Jeff Appelblatt Middletown High School North’s baseball team could have still bathed a few steps outside of the visitors’ dugout at Marlboro High School, but the game on the field was all that mattered for the two teams in the first scrimmage of the year in Marlboro March 24. The Mustangs hadn’t been able…

  • On Campus

    Katelyn Allen of Sayreville was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore.   Jennifer Capone of Old Bridge was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Morrisville (N.Y.) State College.   Natalie Capone of Old Bridge was named to the dean’s list for the fall…

  • Driver loses control, strikes South Brunswick Library building

    Driver loses control, strikes South Brunswick Library building

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A driver pulling into a parking spot at the South Brunswick Library mistakenly hit the gas, causing the vehicle to hit a parked car and strike part of the library entrance. The driver, Sunitha Maganti, 47, of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, reportedly was pulling into the lot at 10:15 a.m.…

  • Teenager charged with stabbing classmate in vo-tech bathroom

    Teenager charged with stabbing classmate in vo-tech bathroom

    EAST BRUNSWICK – A 17-year-old girl has been charged with stabbing a 15-year-old classmate at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High School in East Brunswick. The 17-year-old, whose name is being withheld due to her age, has been charged with juvenile delinquency for attempted murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose,…

  • Chase Bank to replace abandoned Pizza Hut in Sayreville

    Chase Bank to replace abandoned Pizza Hut in Sayreville

    By JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SAYREVILLE — Former Pizza Huts tend to still look like Pizza Huts even after they have been converted to other businesses. However, the J.P. Morgan Chase bank that will be occupying the space where the closed Pizza Hut now sits at North Ernston and Washington roads in Sayreville will not have…

  • Spotswood police swear in newest patrolman

    Spotswood police swear in newest patrolman

    By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Given a uniform, a badge number and his own toy patrol car, 2-year-old Trent Powers of Helmetta was made an honorary officer by Chief of Police Michael Zarro and his fellow officers from the Spotswood Police Department during the Borough Council’s semi-monthly meeting. Accompanied by his parents Kimberly and Trevor…

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