• Solar-powered, high-tech bus shelters in the works

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer Many riders of NJ Transit’s bus service will soon be able to keep out of the elements in style, as approximately 100 new bus shelters fitted with modern amenities are slated to be installed within the year. Sun Pacific Power Corp., a solar-energy company based in Freehold, has been working…

  • VFW holds Family Sunday Drive

    Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 133 will host its Family Sunday Drive 1-6 p.m. Aug. 18, rain or shine. Start will be at 1 p.m. at the post home, 485 Cranbury Road. Motorcyclists are welcome. There will be stops at the VFW posts in Milltown, South River, Sayreville and Old Bridge. Riders will collect…

  • Waves of knowledge

    PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY HIGHER EDUCATION Left: Juilee Malavade of North Brunswick (l-r), Noah Lee of Cranford, Dominick Lam of Morganville and Dennis Park of Wayne worked on autonomic cloud computing during a July 26 research symposium held by the Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers University. Students lived…

  • CODA

    Good news: At least they’re more popular than Fidel Greg Bean Our nation’s 112th Congress broke for its five-week summer recess last Wednesday, July 31, having achieved the shameful record of being the least productive Congress in history, while at the same time becoming the most hated Congress in history, according to a plethora of…

  • Resident thanks employees for their honesty

    I wanted to say thanks to two wonderful stores at the Shoppes at North Brunswick. My daughter recently lost her iPod. I called around to stores we had visited, but could not find it. Last night, we walked into Clarks Shoes, and an employee said she was so happy to see us. She found the…

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    Sunflowers along Pension Road, Manalapan. IRENE P.

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    Patrons enjoy a warm summer night of fun at the Middlesex County Fair on Aug. 10. The festivities were held at the fairgrounds in East Brunswick from Aug. 5 to 11. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Youngster at the head of veggie competition at fair

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Andrew Budrow entered a cabbage he grew as part of a school project into a contest at the Middlesex County Fair last week, and won first place for the largest vegetable grown. PHOTO COURTESY OF KELLI BUDROW With the closing of Milltown’s Our Lady of Lourdes School in June, third-grader…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    DeVry University has announced a new Career Catalyst Scholarship, which is designed to support students along their educational journey toward graduation. More than $15 million has been set aside for the next three years, which will be awarded to qualifying students who enroll in the September session by Aug. 29. The scholarship value is up…

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