May 17 + Basketball Game Featuring the Harlem Wizards vs. St. Ambrose Faculty and Basketball Coaches, sponsored by St. Ambrose School PTA, Old Bridge, doors open at 6 p.m., in the gym at Carl Sandburg Middle School, Route 516, Old Bridge. Advance tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for students, senior citizens; available through St. Ambrose School or St. Ambrose Church Rectory. More...

The East Brunswick/Spotswood area needs a no-kill animal shelter.Many wonderful, adoptable animals are being euthanized because of the seven-day holding policy. If our shelter was available to the viewing public at least six days a week, including one weekend day, more animals would be adopted. More...

With a scaled-back force of just three full-time police officers, including the chief, it's high time that Helmetta takes a good look at its police department and how it can best serve the borough. Whether that means increasing manpower or turning police coverage over to another town, the issue needs to be examined. More...

William J. Perbetsky Mr. Perbetsky, 71, of North Brunswick, died May 10, 2007, at Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick. born in Coaldale, Pa., he resided in Pennsylvania and Milltown prior to relocating to North Brunswick 43 years ago. He was a chief lineman for Public Service Electric and Gas, New Brunswick, for 43 years, retiring in 1999. More...

Above and at right: Composer Brad Schoener rehearses with fourth- and fifth-grade band students at Appleby School in Spotswood May 8. Through a composer-in-residence grant, Schoener met with the students in January, and he later incorporated the students' original pieces to create a composition for the band to play at its spring concert. More...

Say this for the Old Bridge boys track and field team: they certainly know how to make a statement. The Knights thoroughly dominated the competition on Saturday en route to winning their sixth consecutive Greater Middlesex Conference championship, beating second-place South Brunswick by 53 points, only 12 points less than the Vikings managed to score as a team. More...