Archive for September, 2011

NEW PROVIDENCE – NJ Sharing Network Foundation’s 13th Annual Golf and Tennis Classic features more than just the usual prizes and banquet – this year it welcomes Lenore Ford and Peter Rooney to its Board of Trustees. »

ROSELLE PARK -- The Bumble Bee Bazaar is back. Just in time for holiday shopping, it will be held at the Church of the Assumption, Roselle Park, in Lower Chiego Hall, 113 Chiego Place, Roselle Park on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. »

RAHWAY–Northfield Bank will host a community “Shred It Day” on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their Rahway and East Brunswick branches. Shredding events give individuals the opportunity to have their confidential documents destroyed on site, free of charge. »

UNION -- The YM-YWHA of Union County will offer fall yoga classes starting Oct. 10. »

CLARK – On Saturday, Sept. 24, The Provident Bank will celebrate the opening of a new branch in Clark located at 1139 Raritan Road. The new office will replace the branch previously located at 10 Westfield Avenue. »

EDISON-Here are some great memories of the Pines Swim Club from Ellen Liebson Porges: »

CRANFORD—The Friends of the Cranford Public Library will host a script-in-hand, staged reading by members of The Theater Project, a professional theater company formerly located at Union County College’s Cranford campus, on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cranford Community Center, 220 Walnut Avenue. »

ELIZABETH – Urban Farm Dinners (a project of Groundwork Elizabeth) will host its inaugural event “An Urban Farm Dinner Pig Roast with Andrea Carbine of A Toute Heure” on Sunday, Oct. 16 from 3:30 – 8 p.m. at the Portuguese Instructive Social Club in Elizabeth. »

One of the hottest topics in education today is how to keep students safe in our schools and on our college campuses. This has nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks on our country. But it has everything to do with terrorists of another kind, the school bully. »

TRENTON – New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher and New Jersey Nursery and Landscape Association (NJNLA) President Jan-Marie Traynor kicked off the first official Fall Gardening Month in New Jersey with a ceremony at Hall’s Garden Center in Berkeley Heights. »

TRENTON – A coalition of Northeastern states, including New Jersey, has received a nearly $1 million federal grant to jump start planning for a network of electrical vehicle charging stations, an initiative that will spur job creation and use of electric vehicles, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced today. »

PISCATAWAY – New research from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Cornell University identifies how the ring-shaped helicase enzymes that separate the strands of double helical DNA track forward along the DNA without slipping backward. »

CAMDEN – Philadelphia Eagles Offensive Guard Danny Watkins (left) showcases the recently-released New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s Eagles license plate Tuesday in the Camden Motor Vehicle Agency. »

TRENTON – Just days after he blasted the decision to award a $420,000 tax credit for the “Jersey Shore” television program, state Sen. Paul Sarlo helped advance a bill he sponsored that would expand the state’s film and television tax credit program. »

EDISON – Middlesex County seniors warm up Wednesday, Sept. 21, before participating in the county’s annual Senior Health and Fitness Walk at Roosevelt Park in Edison. »

LINDEN – Two Elizabeth men have been charged with residential burglaries that took place in Linden during August and September, police announced today. »

UNION CITY – Realizing there should be no language barrier for at-risk youth, Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno today helped kickoff a Spanish-speaking helpline for young people between the ages of 10 and 24. »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – US Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration has allocated nearly $3.8 million to upgrade public transportation infrastructure in four New Jersey communities, New Jersey’s senators announced today. »

TRENTON – Two former New Jersey Turnpike toll collectors were sentenced to jail today for stealing thousands of dollars in toll funds in a scheme in which they obtained tickets from interchanges near their toll plazas and substituted them for tickets from motorists who paid large tolls, pocketing the difference, Attorney General Paula T.... »

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Nearly a quarter of college admissions officers that responded to a survey, said that they checked applicants’ pages on Facebook or other social networking sites, Kaplan Test Prep announced. When Kaplan first began asking in 2008, only 10 percent of schools said that they did. »