Tag: New Brunswick

  • Trip to Rutgers Gardens set for June 17

    Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County will offer a bus trip and tour of Rutgers Gardens on June 17. The trip will include transportation to and from the Gardens, a one hour garden tour and time to browse the Farmers Market, which includes food vendors. Departure is set at 9:45 a.m. from the Agricultural Center,…

  • Play to tell story of Tuskegee Airmen

    Play to tell story of Tuskegee Airmen

    “Fly,” a play inspired by the tale of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American Army Air Corps pilots, will be presented 8 p.m. April 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16, 3 p.m. April 10, 16 and 17, and 10 a.m. April 13 at Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Co-written by Crossroads’…

  • Dog Show to be held in Edison

    Dog Show to be held in Edison

    The New Brunswick Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. March 25 and 26 at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center at Raritan Center, Edison. The cost is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $2 for children under 10. No baby/child strollers are requested. Dogs not entered in…

  • Professional development courses based on Holocaust education

    Professional development courses based on Holocaust education

    Registration is open for free professional development courses in Holocaust education at Rutgers University. Rutgers scholars and other experts will address “Antisemitism: History and Myth” on Wednesdays, Feb. 17, March 2, March 30, May 4 and May 18. The course will address antisemitism and anti-Judaism in Medieval Times; blood libel accusations, pogroms, and antisemitism in…

  • Rutgers Home Gardeners School announces registration

    Rutgers Home Gardeners School announces registration

    Rutgers Home Gardeners School will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on March 19 at the Rutgers University Cook/Douglass campus in New Brunswick. Workshop topics for the 40th Annual Home Gardeners School include canning fruits and vegetables, easy drip irrigation, composting, and pruning, as well as 23 new offerings. Subjects for the new workshops include…

  • County’s Business Resource Center presents Entrepreneurship Workshop

    County’s Business Resource Center presents Entrepreneurship Workshop

    The Middlesex County Office of Workforce Development will hold a workshop “Business Structure and Entrepreneurship” from 10 a.m.-noon, Feb. 4, at the Middlesex County One-Stop Career Center, 550 Jersey Ave., New Brunswick. It will provide answers and resources on finding your place in the business world and is part of the SCORE Entrepreneurship Series of…

  • Thunderbird American Indian Dancers perform on Feb. 26

    Thunderbird American Indian Dancers perform on Feb. 26

    The Middlesex County Office of Culture and Heritage and the Folklife Program for New Jersey welcome the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers for a colorful and lively performance of traditional dance and music, representing tribal groups found throughout the United States. This free event will take place on Friday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. at the…

  • Economic shift from suburbs to cities

    Economic shift from suburbs to cities

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — The technology boom of the 1990s has essentially uprooted the suburban office agglomeration of the 1980s that drew people to suburban New Jersey in the first place. James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said in the…

  • Students to perform at Rutgers showcase

    Students to perform at Rutgers showcase

    The Rutgers High School Musical Theater Academy Showcase, featuring Adi Zacks and Jason Biss of Milltown, Talia Sclafani of East Brunswick and other students performing conceptual renditions of Broadway songs and ensemble dance performances, is set for 8 p.m. Jan. 22 and 23 at the Philip J. Levin Theater, Douglass Campus of Rutgers University, 85…