The Costello-Runyon Funeral Home, 568 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen, continues to offer a bereavement support group. Ongoing sessions are held every Wednesday and Thursday morning from 10:30 a.m. to noon, as well as Wednesday evening from 7-8:30 p.m. The program, which is free of charge, takes place at t More...

Parents in close-knit towns like Metuchen are scrambling to understand a host of moral, ethical, legal and technical questions raised by the explosion of globally-wired social networks. More...

My son was looking for some important paperwork recently when my aging brain went into full-tilt freeze mode. It not only temporarily erased one word I was looking for in my memory bank, it erased two. More...

Eleanor M. Ur Mrs. Ur, 93, of Lakewood, died March 8 at Leisure Park Health Center, Lakewood. She was affectionately known as "Aunt Ellie" to her loved ones. Born in Cumberland, Md., she had resided in Washington, D.C., for most of her life, where she had worked as a sales consultant in the cr More...

METUCHEN - Sam McDuffie's 20-point performance in the fourth quarter proved too much to overcome for the borough high school boys basketball team, as the Bulldogs fell to McDuffie's Bordentown team, 75-73, in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I title game last week. More...

Business Over Breakfast (BOB) - a group of local entrepreneurs and small business owners - will begin welcoming a broad base of new members in 2006. Prior to this, membership in the group was by invitation only. BOB meets every other Thursday, with the next meetings March 16 and 30 from 7:30-9 a.m. More...