• Firefighter in training

    Aryanna Goodwin of Sayreville tries on a helmet and examines the mask during Health and Safety Day at Middlesex County College. She is flanked by Edison firefighters Ed Hummel, left, and Brian Stauder.

  • Vendor spaces open at Nov. 16 holiday event

    The St. Peter’s Episcopal Church will team up with the Spotswood Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary for a Holiday Bazaar set for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 16 at St. Peter’s Church, 505 Main St., and also at the Spotswood Firehouse, next to the church property. The church and the fire department work independently but with the…

  • Memory Health Fair slated for Nov. 10

    Parker Adult Day Center, 443 River Road, Highland Park, will hold its annual Memory Health Fair from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 10. In addition to free hearing and memory screenings, there will be memory health education sessions, memory building games, brain-food cooking demonstrations and mind-body exercise classes. Attendees will enjoy lunch, a tour…

  • Grant funds Kindle purchases for library

    SOUTH AMBOY — Target and the Dowdell Library Foundation supplied a grant for the purchase of Kindles for children at the Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library. The Dowdell Library Foundation presented a check for $2,000 on Sept. 17 to the South Amboy library. The Kindle Fires and eBooks will provide new avenues for reading and…

  • Irwin K. Wechsler

    Mr. Wechsler, 88, of East Brunswick, died Oct. 20, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was the owner of and manufacturing representative for Canterbury Sales, East Brunswick, where he worked for 48 years. Surviving are his wife, Helen Winter Wechsler; a daughter, Eileen Luft and…

  • Dorothy Ghilino Jennings

    Mrs. Jennings, 82, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., and Englewood, Fla., formerly of East Brunswick, died Oct. 18, 2013. Surviving are her husband, Alvin F. Jennings; two sons, Alvin V. Jennings, and his wife, Kristin, of Marco Island, Fla., and Robert M. Jennings and his wife, Lynn, of Flemington; two daughters, Judy DeLellis and her husband,…

  • John Stanik

    Mr. Stanik, 99, of South River, died Oct. 20, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed for more than 50 years as a carpenter through the International Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners Local No. 1006, Milltown. He was predeceased by his wife, Rita Hague Stanik; a…

  • Michael A. Alexander

    Mr. Alexander, 61, of Jamesburg, died Oct. 20, 2013, at home. Surviving are his wife, Bonnie L. Hammerbacher Alexander; two children, Jennifer Edelman and her husband, Todd, of Monroe, and Bradford Hart of Woodbridge, Va.; three siblings, Mary Moore, and her husband, Ted, of Greenwood, Ark., Mark Alexander and his wife, Robin, of San Jose,…

  • Bertha R. Dembinski

    Mrs. Dembinski, 92, of South River, died Oct. 23, 2013, in Franklin Memorial Hospital, Rocky Mount, Va. Prior to her retirement in 1986, she was employed as a seamstress for 30 years at Brodsky & Sons, South River. Before that, she worked for South River Cigar Co. She was predeceased by her husband, Stanley Dembinski;…

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