Austen-inspired author coming to E.B. Library

Best-selling novelist Paula Marantz Cohen, who has carved out a literary niche with comical romances that draw on her love of classic literature, will inaugurate the East Brunswick Public Library's Meet the Author series at 8 p.m. on June 22 at the library, Jean Walling Civic Center.

Cohen, the author of "Jane Austen in Boca," "Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan" and "Jane Austen in Scarsdale, or Love, Death and the SATs," will autograph her books following the program.

Admission to the event is free of charge. The public is invited. Light refreshments will be served.

A professor of English at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Cohen, a New Jersey resident, also is the author of nonfiction books on literature and the family, silent films and American culture, and the movies of Alfred Hitchcock.

For more information, call (732) 390-6783 or (732) 390-6767 or log on to www.ebpl.org.

Property-revaluation

meeting set in Helmetta

A Helmetta property-revaluation meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on June 17 at Holy Trinity Church Hall, 100 Main St.

Representatives of the revaluation company will be on hand to explain the process.

All borough residents are invited to attend.

Students invited to join

R.B. junior auxiliary

The Old Bridge Junior Auxiliary of Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division, will hold an open meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. on June 29 in Auxiliary Hall B and C, lower level of the Medical Arts Building, adjacent to the hospital's Old Bridge division, off Ferry Road, between routes 9 and 18.

Students ages 13-18 are invited to attend. For more information, call (732) 324-5006.