“Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” – No Place for Crybabies – 1 & ½ popcorns

 
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic 
The great thing about Patrick Tatopoulos’s “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” is that you really don’t need to pay attention. Sure, it’s complicated as logarithms, its dramatis personae a hodgepodge of vampires, werewolves and combinations thereof. But if you’re under fifteen you know all about it; over fifteen, you couldn’t [...]

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Two Elizabeth Sports Stars To Be Honored By County Baseball Hall Of Fame

MOUNTAINSIDE—The Union County Baseball Association will induct two former Elizabeth sports stars into the Union County Baseball Hall of Fame during award ceremonies on Sunday, Feb. 8.
The new class of Hall of Fame inductees includes Anthony Candelino of Elizabeth, Ben Candelino of Elizabeth, Dom Guida of Summit, and Bill Howard of Berkeley Heights, who [...]

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The Perth Amboy & Woodbridge Clay Pits

by Diane Norek Harrison
PERTH AMBOY-WOODBRIDGE-This is from my own research dated 1884. If anyone has more information on the area clay pits or what is now built on them, please send it for another column.
 W.H.P. Benton’s clay pits are situated on the low ground west of Perth Amboy road, and the railroad and south [...]

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