Friday, May 18, 2012
The documentary on illegal immigration is free and sponsored by the Tea Party of Middlesex County
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“Southern Exposure,” an award-winning documentary examining all sides of the illegal immigration question, will be shown Sunday, May 20 at 2 pm at Buddies Tavern in Parlin. The event, sponsored by the Tea Party of Middlesex County as part of their Freedom Fest series, is free and open to the public. Following the screening, Dr. Gayle Kesselman, president of NJ Citizens for Immigration Control, will lead a discussion of the film and the impact of illegal immigration on New Jersey and the nation. A board certified psychiatrist practicing in the state, Kesselman helped form the non-partisan organization in 2005. For additional information and reservations, go to southernexposurenj.eventbrite.com.
The store folded last year. June is the chance to get high-end baby goods for a steal.
Destination Baby was the kind of store to make mommies-to-be drool and grandmas-in-waiting rip out the gold card. A luxury store in the Crosspointe Town Square shopping center, catering to creating the luxe childhood of which dreams are made. Then the Recession of '08 happened, and luxury stores in middle class Woodbridge hit the skids. Last November, Destination Baby was shuttered amid bankruptcy proceedings. But come Wednesday, June 6, expectant mothers and the families that love them and the coming baby can pick up some high-end baby items for a song. Maybe. That's because the store fittings, fixtures, and tons of baby merchandise left behind when the store closed will go to the highest bidder. Caspert Management, an "industrial, …
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Buckle up or get a ticket, says the state, which gave a slew of towns, including Woodbridge, $4,000 to enforce the law during the Memorial Day holidays.
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Beginning next week, law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey will be cracking down on unbuckled motorists and their passengers as part of the annual “Click It or Ticket” campaign. Nearly 150 agencies, including Woodbridge, received $4,000 each to run the seatbelt enforcement checkpoints and saturation patrols, which will take place May 21 to June 3. The crackdowns come during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, one of the busiest times on the roads. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), 22,187 passenger vehicle occupants were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2010 and 51 percent of them were not wearing seat belts at the time of their fatal crashes. NHTSA statistics show that in 2010 alone, …
Woodbridge resident Kerry E. Russell got an MA from Quinnipiac University.
Kerry E. Russell of Woodbridge received a Masters of Arts degree in teaching from Quinnipiac University during a commencement ceremony held May 13 at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Ct. William E. Strickland Jr., president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corp., addressed the 727 graduates and received an honorary degree. Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls more than 6,000 full-time undergraduate and more than 2,000 graduate students in 53 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, …
Three-day event offers arts and crafts, food and music as well.
Patch is offering 50-percent off gate ticket prices to the 30th annual Festival of Ballooning in July. But you'll need to act quickly. The discounts are only available through this Sunday, May 20. The festival, held Friday-Sunday, July 27-29, at Solberg Airport in Readington, offers much, much more than ballooning. There are rides, an arts and crafts festival, yoga and Zumba demonstrations, and food—lots of it. Every evening, there will be a music concert and twice each day on Saturday and Sunday and once on Friday, more than 100 balloons will rise majestically into the sky. And Patch will offer all attendees a chance to leave all your troubles behind and take a free tethered balloon ride. Just find our table at the festival and sign up …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dine at Applebee's in Edison on May 22, and 10 percent of your check will go to help adults with developmental disabilities.
Nothing's more fun than going out for a meal - unless it's when dining out also helps people who could use some help. Dine at Applebee's in Edison on Tuesday, May 22, from 11 am to 9 pm, and 10 percent of the bill will be donated to help adults with developmental issues. 'Dine to Donate', the name of the fundraiser, will benefit Spectrum for Living, a non-profit organization that helps these adults reach their full potential with quality housing. They also provide clinical services in state-of-the-art facilities and in the homes of caregivers of disabled adults in Middlesex, Bergen, and Passaic counties. All you have to do is print out the flyer for the fundraiser (which you can find by going to this link) and present it when you pay your…
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The family-owned midlevel retailer may be setting up shop in the old Fortunoff's anchor store in 2013.
Looks like the old Fortunoff store in Woodbridge Center isn't going to be vacant anymore. Boscov's, one of the last of the family-owned department store chains in the country, announced today they'll be moving into Woodbridge Center by August of 2013. "Woodbridge Mall in particular represents an exciting opportunity for Boscov’s," said store chairman and CEO Albert Boscov in a statement. "[It]...provides us with excellent locations in great markets.” The store announced that they'd be moving into a 180,000 sq. ft. space, although the vacant Fortunoff store - the most likely location for Boscov's - is listed as having 150,000 sq. ft. of retail space still for rent. Neither Boscov's nor Woodbridge Center has announced exactly where they'll…
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If you notice your sloppy neighbor is suddenly using a new-found cache of gardening tools, this story might tell you where he got it all from.
It's that time of the year when you want to get out in the garden and get your hands dirty. That's just what some enterprising thieves did last week when they visited a Colonia home and purloined a slew of gardening gear. Woodbridge police said that the owner of a Neptune Place residence noticed this week that gardening tools kept in a shed in the rear of the home were missing. The thieves made off with several pairs of gardening gloves, trowels, cultivators, and clippers, all worth about $300. They also stole a $30 pair of noise reducing headphones, proving that even crooks want to protect their hearing when using power tools. There was no word whether the thieves stole someone else's lawnmower to go along with the noise reducing …
A lightning strike on a Dow Chemical plant in Bristol, Pa. Wednesday caused a wafting odor that traveled as far east as Woodbridge, reports say.
If you thought there was something in the air in Woodbridge Wednesday, you weren't alone. A lightning strike on two large chemical tanks at Dow Chemical in Bistol, Pa, yesterday caused a massive three-alarm blaze and a miasma began to waft across the Delaware into central New Jersey, Levittown Patch reported. The fire was brought under control shortly after 5 am, but the odor kept blowing across the Delaware for the rest of the day. One firefighter/policeman died at the scene of a heart attack, the story noted. Hazmat teams were also on the scene. Reports of the smell from the chemicals, used in the manufacture of acrylic paint products, from the Bucks Advance, said that the odor drifted as far into New Jersey as Woodbridge. A quick …
A lightning strike Wednesday was blamed for a three-alarm fire at Bristol Township, Pa. Dow Chemical Plant.
A lightning strike is to blame for a massive three-alarm blaze at the Dow Chemical facility at Route 413 and State Road in Croydon that destroyed two large tanks that held chemicals used in the manufacturing of acrylic paint products, according to local and county officials. No first responders were injured due to the blaze. But 63-year-old Dave Wintz, a fire police captain with the Bristol Fire Company, left the fire scene after feeling ill and later died of a fatal heart attack shortly before sunrise, Deputy Chief Francis Hufnell said. Firefighters and hazmat teams from Bucks, Montgomery and Burlington County in New Jersey responded shortly after 3:35 a.m. to the blaze and worked with Dow’s in-house emergency response fire and hazmat …
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