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Memories from Walt Mezynski: "I just came across your article from 2011 about the area. I spent many a day and night at Highland Grove Swim Club.
EDISON -- Two players from the Middlesex County College softball team received honors for the week of April 1-7.
Who is the Perth Amboy mayor? by Robert Sottilaro When the Democrats met to select an assembly member to the state legislature a few years ago, Wilda Diaz was pushing for M. E. Rodriguez, an excellent candidate. The vote went for Craig Coughlin from Woodbridge. Diaz said she would never back the Democrats to the assembled…
MIDDLESEX COUNTY – Cranbury School, with a modest 450 student-body count, had yet to reach the pinnacle of “top collector” in more than a decade of participation in Middlesex County’s Spring School Food Drive.
WOODBRIDGE-Woodbridge is thought to be named for the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Massachusetts, the town from which the Puritan settlers who chartered the community in 1669 came. It consists of Iselin, Colonia, Avenel, Keasbey, Sewaren, Hopelawn, Fords, Port Reading, Menlo Park and Woodbridge proper.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY -- The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders will proclaim April as “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” (SAAM) at its regular meeting tonight. The goal of SAAM is to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to teach communities and individuals how to prevent sexual violence.
WOODBRIDGE – Mayor John E. McCormac announced the return of FREE Township-wide garage sale weekends and bulk waste pick-up beginning April 6 in Menlo Park Terrace and Fords (Recycling District #5; Zones 1-5). The Woodbridge Township “Spring Clean-Up 2013” includes permit-free Saturday and Sunday garage sale(s) followed by free curb-side bulk waste pick-up.
TRENTON – Gov. Chris Christie and state Sen. Barbara Buono have gotten most of the press in advance of this year’s gubernatorial race, but seven candidates filed petitions to run for the state’s top office this week.
![[PHOTO] Middlesex County College’s Science Fair](http://njtoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Science-Fairsm.jpg)
EDISON -- Sanford Harty of North Brunswick, the president of the Middlesex County College Chemistry Club, (left) talks with Charles Japa of Colonia, the president of the Biology Club, at the MCC Science Fair.
