• Rams boys basketball prepares season of rebuilding

    SOUTH RIVER By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent South River High School boys basketball coach Rodney Harris admitted this season will be one in which the Rams rebuild with seven seniors graduated. Not only did those seven players constitute nearly 90 percent of the team’s scoring, but they helped put together one of the Rams’ best records…

  • Knights capture Red Division title

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Quarterback Nicholas LaVecchia (9) and the Old Bridge High School football team clinched the Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division title when they defeated East Brunswick High School, 35-0, on Thanksgiving. The Knights were 7-3 overall and 6-2 in division play this year.

  • Donations needed for Spotswood book sale

    The Spotswood Public Library, 548 Main St., will hold its semiannual book sale Jan. 2-9. Donations of gently used books, books on tape, books on CD, DVDs, music CDs and VHS tapes will be accepted Dec. 11-20 in the meeting room.

  • Angel Tree tags available at Spotswood library

    Independent Girl Scout Mia Gahrmann, in conjunction with the Spotswood Public Library and the Salvation Army, will conduct the annual Angel Tree fundraiser for local needy children through Dec. 12 at the library, 548 Main St. Each Angel Tag has a holiday gift idea for a child. Visitors to the library may select an angel…

  • ‘A Wind in the Willows Christmas’ holiday musical returns

    The Two River Theater will present “A Wind in the Willows Christmas,” based on the children’s classic by Kenneth Grahame. The musical takes audiences to a wintry wonderland where Mole, the Water Rat, Mr. Toad and all the creatures of the Willows discover the true meaning of friendship. Commissioned and premiered by Two River last…

  • No butts about it: Bathtub bench receives patent

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The Butt Bench was originally designed for women to shave their legs in the bathtub, but it can also be used to hold toiletry bottles or as a resting place for the elderly, pregnant women or even pets. PHOTO COURTESY OF BILL CORCORAN MILLTOWN — Over the past 20 years…

  • Jeffry L. Toperzer

    Mr. Toperzer, 70, died Nov. 20, 2013, in Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was predeceased by his wife, Phyllis Toperzer. Surviving are two daughters, Cheryl Berkuta and her husband, Scott, and Lauren Toperzer and her fiancé, Rob Bittner; a brother, Chuck Toperzer; a sister, Pam Roscoe; and two grandsons. Arrangements were under the direction…

  • August DeSantis Jr.

    Mr. DeSantis, of Monroe, formerly of Highland Park, died Nov. 14, 2013, in The Elms at Cranbury. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was a blacksmith for Johns- Manville, North Brunswick, where he worked for 30 years. He also was a maintenance person at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his…

  • Sandra Silver Wetzel

    Mrs. Wetzel, 73, of Centerville, Ohio, formerly of East Brunswick and Monroe, died Nov. 17, 2013, at home. Prior to her retirement in 2009, she was employed as an administrative assistant for the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics, New Brunswick, where she worked for 25 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Howard P. Wetzel.…

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