Archive for December, 2011

NEWARK- Coast Guard Rear Adm. Daniel R. May, Commander of Personnel Service Center, and Capt. Robert R. Mckenna, Commander of Community Services Command, tour Unionwear’s Newark ball cap manufacturing facility, Wednesday, Dec. 14. »

TRENTON – Legislation intended to protect children from exposure to potentially harmful pesticides at child care centers and certain schools, playgrounds and recreational fields was released Thursday by an Assembly committee. »

UNION COUNTY -- Boy Scouts from Troop 80 of Cranford pitched in last month to help improve garden beds cultivated by the Master Gardeners of Union County at the Trailside Demonstration Garden in the Watchung Reservation, in Mountainside. »

The Bill of Rights officially became part of the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791. Unfortunately, 220 years later, the freedoms enshrined in those first ten amendments are in dire jeopardy. »

ISELIN--The Board of Directors of Indus American Bank elected Anil Bansal as their new chairman. Bansal continues as co-chairman of IA Bancorp, the holding company of the bank. »

RAHWAY -- Horizon NJ Health recently came to Franklin School in Rahway to teach second grade students about activities to do and foods to eat to keep their heart healthy. »

TRENTON – Employment in the Garden State was up sharply in November with a monthly gain of 10,400 private sector jobs, according to data released today. The state’s unemployment rate was unchanged over the month at 9.1 percent, as more New Jersey residents returned to the labor force. »

NEW BRUNSWICK -- New research published online today in advance of print in the New England Journal of Medicine could refine the way that post-operative patients are cared for while preserving blood supply levels, an essential resource that is difficult to maintain at necessary quantities throughout the year. »

NEWARK—In the past when a child needed a distraction from his or her anxiety about a particular medical procedure, Anne Reilly, would grab her Distraction Box, a colorful container with bubbles, light up toys, stress balls and other creative play items. »

CLARK – The Planning Board will hold its third public meeting tonight to discuss a proposal to build 39 townhomes on the Miele’s Greenhouse property on Lake Avenue. »

A select group of U.S. multinational corporations have been furiously lobbying for a tax holiday, they say, to bring more than a trillion dollars in so-called “trapped” foreign earnings back home and invest it in the American economy. »

It was four years ago today that I received a phone call from a Los Angeles TV reporter that would change my life, although I certainly didn’t realize it at the time. »

Three advocacy groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency last week over concerns that regulations for paper mills emissions are 25 years out of date. »

There are countless beautiful actresses in Hollywood, but as we are reminded by director Simon Curtis’s “My Week with Marilyn,” based on the fond remembrance by Colin Clark, none with the mystique Marilyn Monroe possessed. The inscrutability lives, nicely evoked in this latest effort to make sense of the je ne sais quoi and... »

PARRIS ISLAND -- Marine Corps Pvt. Jonathan A. Cruz, son of Vilma and Jose A. Cruz of Elizabeth, recently completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S. C. designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally. »

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. -- Marine Corps Pvt. Christopher J. Rapos, son of Linda Schaefer of Edison, recently completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally. »

CARTERET – The Carteret Public Library Reading Club will meet to discuss “Heart Full of Lies” by Ann Rule on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 at 7 p.m. »

PISCATAWAY – The Diocese of Metuchen will continue its eight-part adult faith formation series with a talk this Advent season on What the Bible Says About the Birth of Jesus Christ. »

I've never seen such a gaggle of tax-money sucking boneheads running for president, - with Ron Paul standing head and shoulders above them all as the only one who actually knows what he's doing, »

CRANFORD – Melinda Ayala, Class of 2011, was sworn in as the Student Representative to the Union County College Board of Trustees at the Annual Reorganization meeting on Nov. 29. The meeting was held at the college’s Cranford campus. »