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Community Bulletin Board: the Suburban (for April 21)
The Middlesex County Regional COVID-19 Vaccine Mega-site, operated by RWJBarnabas Health, is seeking volunteers to assist in the efficiency of the registration and vaccination process and help visitors feel comfortable.
Volunteers of the mega-site, located at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center, 97 Sunfield Ave., Edison, will greet patients and visitors; perform temperature screenings; direct patients through various steps of the vaccination process; provide education materials; and assist with maintaining the registration area and supplying vaccination stations.
Volunteers do not administer vaccines.
Those who apply to volunteer must be a minimum of 18 years old and will be subject to a background check and a drug screen, and will need to sign a confidentiality statement.
Should N.J. cops have seized teens’ bicycles? Experts weigh in on controversy.
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In a 17-minute video posted to YouTube, a large group of cyclists on BMX bikes filmed themselves riding around town, weaving in and out of traffic and doing tricks. They’re eventually stopped by police at least twice, with one interaction ending in applause and the other with a teenager in handcuffs.
“It’s not for the level obviously (of) a George Floyd or Breonna Taylor situation, but it definitely connects on the level of police power, because that’s what this is,” said Jason Williams, an assistant professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University who co-edited a book on Black men’s interactions with the criminal justice system. “It’s, ‘I have the power to inconvenience you, to arrest you, to make things harder for you, and I’m going to do it.’”
Community Bulletin Board: the North and South Brunswick Sentinel (for April 21)
The Anshe Emeth Community Development Corp (AECDC) Central Jersey Diaper Bank is collecting baby clothing sizes newborn-2T, diapers and books.
Donations can be picked up if within Middlesex County. Volunteers from the Rutgers School of Nursing will arrive between 10 a.m. and noon on the day indicated.
At this time, no shoes, equipment, toys, etc. can be collected.
North Brunswick PBA Local 160 announced the return of its annual Cops & Rodders Car Show for Sept. 19. Rain date will be Sept. 26.
More details will be announced.
For more information, email carshow@nbtpba160.com
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Authorities said they have arrested a 35-year-old New Brunswick woman who shot and killed a 46-year-old, whom authorities said was a bystander and not the intended target.
Rhadisha Maurrasse shot Delfino Aparicio-Lopez as he was driving in his vehicle on Handy Street around 4:35 p.m. on Monday, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and New Brunswick Police Director Anthony A. Caputo said.
Aparicio-Lopez was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, they said.
Maurrasse was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, they said.