May is “Older Americans Month,” and the Quail Brook Senior Center, 625 New Brunswick Rd., has scheduled a variety of events to celebrate. May 12 – 10:30 a.m. – Performance Poet Glenis Redmond New Brunswick State Theater Artist-in-Residence Glenis Redmond will perform at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 12. Redmond tells stories with poetry, including tales from her life, family …

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots will welcome WWE Legend Jerry “The King” Lawler to the ballpark on Saturday, May 17th for the team’s 7:05 pm game at TD Bank Ballpark against the Sugar Land Skeeters. Lawler will be on site to meet fans, take pictures, and sign autographs on the concourse throughout the game. Reigning over sports-entertainment since the 1970s, …

UPDATE: Orvyl Wilson, the school district’s director of school management, has been named acting principal at the high school. Wilson served as the high school principal from 2001 to 2008 and as acting principal from April through July 2012. District spokeswoman Mary Clark said the issue of Wilson’s compensation “is under review and will be determined by Board of Education policy …

Sugar Land, TX – The Somerset Patriots (8-5) beat the Sugar Land Skeeters (6-7) 7-1 Thursday afternoon from humid Constellation Field. The Patriots have won two of the first three games in this lengthy six game series. In the top of the first inning right fielder Luis Montanez hit a RBI sacrifice fly to give the Patriots an early 1-0 …

SAN DIEGO, April 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Roughly six million new cancer diagnoses are made in dogs and a similar number in cats each year. Just like with humans, detecting cancer early and being healthy enough to fight the disease means this diagnosis…

For this week's awesome stuff of interesting or bizarre crowdfunding projects, we're going to go with three crowdfunding projects involving technology for pets. Yes, pets. I've got a cat and a dog and a bunch of fish, and I've never once thought about…

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May 2 A car owned by Brigitt Stokes of Holly Street was struck early in the morning while it was parked outside her home, she told police. The driver of the other car fled the scene. § Cars driven by neil Orkin of Hillsborough and Miguel Zara of Somerset collided on Franklin Boulevard, when Orkin’s car was crossing the road …