Tag: Metuchen
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Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of NAACP to present lecture on The Great Black Migration
The Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of the NAACP will present a lecture on The Great Black Migration at 7 p.m. on Feb. 14 at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, 450 Division St., Edison. The program features a panel discussion on the migration of African Americans, Africans and Caribbeans from the South, plus a chance to…
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Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce meeting to include discussion on raffles
The Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its Quarterly Membership Meeting from 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 26 in the back room of Hailey’s Harp & Pub, 400 Main St., Metuchen. A speaker from Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission will give a short presentation on the rules and regulations for raffles, 50/50s and tricky…
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School board panel will work with town to identify shared services
In an effort for the Metuchen School District Board of Education, the Metuchen Borough Council and the borough administration to work more efficiently together, board President Justin Manley has announced the formation of a Municipal Sharing Committee. Manley appointed board member Jonathan Lifton to chair the committee during a meeting that was held on Jan.…
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Metuchen Senior Center to hold winter ceramics workshop on Feb. 3
Emerging Faces, a winter ceramic workshop exploring realistic human faces emerging through or from something, will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Feb. 3 at the Metuchen Senior Center. 15 Center St., Metuchen. Collaboration of the Metuchen Arts Council and Earthlings Ceramic Studio.
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Metuchen-Edison Local History Day to focus on centennial of Prohibition
The Metuchen-Edison Historical Society’s Local History Day will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen. Discussion will be about the centennial of Prohibition. There will be collections of old photographs and post cards, maps and aerial photographs, and historic house information on display. The first…
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Middlesex County College student-athletes excel academically during fall term
Forty student-athletes at Middlesex County College (MCC) finished their fall semester with a grade point average of at least 3.0 or higher. Of the 133 Blue Colt student-athletes, 40 had GPAs of 3.0 or above. Seventeen of those had 3.50 GPAs or higher. Two had perfect 4.0 GPAs. “Our primary mission at MCC is for…
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Area clergy urge against prejudice as they remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
METUCHEN – Assemblywoman Nancy Pinkin (D-Middlesex) said one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorable quotes he made was when he was 38 years old during a sermon in 1968. King said one day “some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue,…
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New multi-way stop signs are now near Metuchen YMCA
METUCHEN – New multi-way stop signs have been installed at the intersections of High Street and Graham Avenue and High Street and Honey Court. The Metuchen Borough Council approved the stop signs by amending an ordinance for multi-way stop intersections at a meeting on Jan. 14. Council President Linda Koskoski said she is 100 percent…
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Dean’s Cafe, Kabab Factory, Demiri’s to open in Metuchen
Mayor Jonathan Busch and the Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will welcome new businesses to the borough in February. Dean’s Cafe, in The Plaza at New and Pearl streets, will hold its grand opening at 10 a.m. Feb. 2. The Kabab Factory, 567 Middlesex Ave., will hold its grand opening at noon on Feb. 2.…
