From MTS:

Think your kids are ready for more competitive soccer? Now is a good time to try!

A number of teams in the Metuchen Travel Soccer Club are looking for players to add to their rosters, at all age levels and playing abilities. Games are always competitive and the teamwork experience builds lasting friendships. Tryouts are being held right now. You can register for tryouts here: https://www4357.ssldomain.com/metuchentravelsoccer/Tryouts_2012_2013/. 

One team in particular is having a special tryout session: the U12 boys ("Blue Dawgs"), on Thursday, May 24th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at Metuchen High School. For more information, please contact Frank McGuire at 732-494-7080

 Win or lose, soccer develops agility, speed and stamina, and also teaches children the importance of teamwork, so it can play an important part in your child's physical and social development.

Any questions? Go to MetuchenTravelSoccer.com (http://metuchentravelsoccer.com/tryouts/) and remember to check the FAQs (http://metuchentravelsoccer.com/faq.aspx)

Centenary Early Learning Center

200 Hillside Avenue

Metuchen, NJ 08840

(732)548-5468

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Summer Fun Club

Ages 3 to 5

Hours~ 9am-1pm

Summer Camp

Ages 6 to 12

Camp Hours~ 8:30am-4:30pm

Pre/Post Care Available

An open letter to the Metuchen Borough Council:

Thank you very much to all of you, and to Councilman Jay Muldoon especially, for the presentation on the Pearl Street Parking Lot development process at the Council meeting yesterday. It was so helpful to get a clear understanding of the current status and the process for moving forward, and I sincerely appreciate the opportunity you gave for members of the public to offer their feedback. 

Along with several other town residents, I spoke yesterday evening about my support for incorporating a permanent farmers market into the development plans. 

After last night's meeting, I realize all the more strongly what a pivotal project this could be. It could have a huge impact on Metuchen's landscape, community, and business development for the next several decades or more.

For this reason, I am heartened by the council's determination to proceed thoughtfully and to exert a creative leadership role. I want to encourage you to continue to think "outside the box" and to work with the Parking Authority and the developers to come up with a plan that isn't just another cookie cutter residential-retail structure, but a visionary space that will further enhance Metuchen's unique identity. 

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that incorporating a *true* market into the plan -- in other words, an indoor-outdoor space where multiple small vendors could sell local produce and specialty foods year-round (like a small town version of Chelsea Market or Reading Terminal) -- along with a green public plaza, would be an incredible win-win for all of us.

It would make the project more appealing to potential residents, which would raise the value for the developers.

It would add a type of business that is currently lacking in downtown Metuchen and would increase foot traffic passing along Main Street.

It would attract shoppers from beyond the Metuchen/Edison area, as there is no market of this type in all of central New Jersey.

It would activate the public plaza and create a central gathering point similar to Palmer Square in Princeton.

It would recognize the cultural shift taking place in our society: the desire to have a direct relationship with food producers and to provide our families with fresh, healthy, local foods.

It would establish Metuchen as a leader in innovative public-private partnership and future-oriented land use.

In conclusion, I applaud your efforts to lead this project with deliberation and care. Let's think big and make downtown Metuchen the jewel of small town New Jersey.

Sincerely,

Janna Morishima

The Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Avenue, will host two book clubs this summer for students in grades 6-12.  Books will be given to participants, courtesy of the Friends of the Library, on the first day that the club meets.

The Tween Book Club (Gr. 6-9) will read Countdown by Deborah Wiles, a nominee for the 2013 Garden State Teen Book Award. The novel is set in 1962 in a suburb of Washington, DC during the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst the ever-present threat of nuclear war, Franny Chapman must face the tension between herself and her siblings and friends. The book has been described as a "documentary novel," replete with black and white photos of historic moments, cultural events, and print advertisements from the early 1960s.  Club dates: Fridays, July 20 and August 3; Time: 1:00-2:00 PM.                                                                 

The High School Book Club (Gr. 9-12) will read The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Award. Narrator "Pi" Patel is a married man with a family of his own, living in Canada. In the story Patel recounts his journey of leaving his home in India as a sixteen-year-old and surviving 227 days on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Part adventure, part magical realism, The Life of Pi tells a tale that you'll never forget. The film version of The Life of Pi is due out in theatres in December 2012. Club dates: Thursdays, July 12 and July 26; Time: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM. 

Registration for all summer programs and book clubs begins on Saturday, June 2, 2012.  Space is limited.  Register in person at the Library or by calling 732.632.8526 or by writing KLiss@Lmxac.org.

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from the

Sugar Blues

Are you constantly craving sweets and want to understand why?

Do you want to gain control without deprivation? 

Please join

Evelyn Fuertes

Health Coach 

for a free lecture on

Saturday, May 19th at 233 Raritan Avenue, 

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Call 551-998-8484 for further information