Police Arrest Man Who Allegedly Re-Sold Prescription Painkillers

RAHWAY – Police arrested a 59-year-old Rahway man accused of illegally selling prescription painkillers on Thursday.

Rahway police had been investigating Charles Dixon, a man on disability who was allegedly selling the prescription painkiller oxycodone, authorities said. The Rahway Police Special Investigations Unit concluded the month-long investigation by executing a search warrant for his apartment in a complex run by the Rahway Housing Authority on the 200 block of West Grand Avenue.

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For Mother’s Day, Help Mom Get Organized

By Jason Alderman
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, wouldn’t you like to show your appreciation in a way that’s more meaningful than buying your mom a box of chocolates or a bunch of flowers?

Here’s a thought: Offer to spend a few hours helping to sort through your mom’s financial, legal and medical paperwork so she – and you – know where she stands and can take appropriate actions, if necessary.

A few key areas to explore might include:

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“Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” – Spirited but Transparent – 2 popcorns

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic
Lovers of love stories who, like true fans of baseball, enjoy the pastime whether minor or major league, will at least appreciate the attempt made by Mark Waters’s “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.” Appropriating Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” and replacing Scrooge’s miser with Matthew McConaughey’s womanizer, it has its albeit predictable moments.

An enamoring cast does a nice job of making the hopeless romantic in us want to believe. Especially Mr. McConaughey. While this isn’t the watershed performance that will set him on the road to one Oscar after the next, it is when he locates the sort of swaggering likeability that can very well make a movie star out of an average actor.

Equally fit for the fantasy at hand, Jennifer Garner is alluring as both the tale’s moral center and the objet d’amour McConaughey’s Connor Read stubbornly denies. But then the man doesn’t know a whole lot, except when it comes to philandering. There, the tragically orphaned, poor little rich kid turned famous fashion photographer is an expert.

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Woodbridge Memories

By Diane Norek Harrison
WOODBRIDGE-Here are memories from readers:

Woodbridge Golden Bears
I received the following in an e-mail from Mark Curran: “Hi Diane, I am the son of Joe Curran # 76 in the photo of your Feb. 27, 2009 Atom Tabloid-Citizen & Gazette article about Woodbridge, New Jersey sports memories. The photo was taken during the 1952 season. My father Joe was in his senior year at Rider College playing quarterback. The Rider College football team went undefeated that year.

“My Dad would play his collegiate games on Friday night or Saturday mornings and if he was not too banged up after his Rider College game, he would drive up to Woodbridge and play for the Golden Bears on Sunday afternoons. He was chosen as the 1952 Most Valuable Player for the Golden Bears.  He is now 82 years old.”

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Clark Men’s Softball League Standings

(as of 5/3/09)

1. Clark Circle Liquors (3-0)
2. Arena Sports Connexion (2-0)
3. East Coast Conditioning (2-0)
4. Breeze Eastern (1-0-1)
5. Prince & Portnoi Attorney’s at Law (1-0)
6. Chili’s (2-1)
7. Wealth Management Group (1-1)
8. The Crossroads Restaurant (0-0)
9. Jabs Personal Stitch (1-3)
10. Wray’s Diggers (0-2)
11. The Kilkenny House (0-3-1)
12. Senorita’s Mexican Grill (0-3)
For more information on the CMSL,  go to www.leaguelineup.com/cmsl

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