• Vikings enter ice hockey season with goal of winning conference

    By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent SOUTH BRUNSWICK W ith several key players returning to the fold, South Brunswick High School ice hockey coach Mike Slansky believes his team can make a run at the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) championship. To accomplish that, the Vikings will need to score more goals this season. “Last year, we lost…

  • Model train show returns to Barron Arts Center

    By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer The Barron Arts Center, 582 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, will continue its holiday tradition of hosting an exhibition of model trains designed and set up by Michael Gelesky of Colonia. The exhibit, now in its 23rd year, opens Nov. 30 and continues through December. “It’s the most exciting event that we…

  • Benefit Advisors to assist veterans Dec. 3

    The Martin and Edith Stein Assisted Living Residence, 350 Demott Lane, Somerset, will hold a special presentation about veteran benefits Dec. 3, noon to 1:30 p.m. The event will include lunch and is open to veterans and their spouses, age 65 and older, who served 90 days of consecutive, active military service with at least…

  • Tree-decorating, lighting event set for Dec. 1

    The Dayton Village Citizen’s Coalition/ South Brunswick Garden Club will sponsor its 11th annual Holiday Tree Lighting Event on Dec. 1. Children will hang natural ornaments they made at home beginning at 3:45 p.m. at the Slack Carroll Historic House, 354 Georges Road, Dayton section of South Brunswick. At 4:15 p.m. everyone will cross the…

  • Volunteers bring winter coats to those in need

    Students dry clean donated clothes By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer The most wonderful time of the year is not necessarily the most wonderful time for everyone, especially those lacking basic comforts. “There are so many people, between storms and the economy, who are really struggling and need assistance,” Shari Levy said. Levy volunteers her time…

  • Hoop and holler

    Roy Lee of East Brunswick takes a foul shot under the guidance of Alan Carmy of North Brunswick, an exalted ruler of the East Brunswick Elks, during the East Brunswick Elks Lodge 2370’s Nov. 15 Elks Hoop Shoot. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Season of giving

    Hannah Levine of South Brunswick, left to right, Laurie Denenberg of East Brunswick, her daughter Lindsey, and Samantha Grumet of South Brunswick create their designs during a pre-Hanukkah glass-making event on Nov. 12 at Eagle’s Landing Day Camp in North Brunswick. The Jewish Women of East Brunswick, a division of Torah Links of Middlesex County,…

  • Joseph P. Benczik

    Mr. Benczik, 71, of North Brunswick, formerly of Hungary and Brazil, died Nov. 20, 2013, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He was an office machine mechanic, most recently working at Karl Business Machines Co. in Trenton. Surviving are his wife, Lydia Pereira Benczik; his daughter, Adriana Doherty and her husband, David,…

  • Joseph Raymond Zapata, Sr.

    Mr. Zapata, 66, of North Brunswick, died Oct. 7, 2013. He worked for the Royal Bank of Canada in New York for more than 35 years. He was predeceased by his father, Raul, in 1999 and his first wife, Gail, in 2004. He is survived by his wife, Valerie; his mother, Gregoria Zapata, of Florida;…

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