Category: Sentinel-EBS Calendar

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    DAWNMARIE SANNWALDT Milltown Fire Chief Gary Conger places flowers at the Milltown Fire Department’s memorial during a service held at the engine company’s firehouse on Memorial Day.

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    Participants in a ceremony held after the Memorial Day parade at the South River War Memorial Building honor those who fought for their country. PHOTOS BY VERONICA YANKOWSKI Members of the South River American Legion, Post 214, march down Main Street in the South River Memorial Day parade on Monday.

  • Council, residents discuss task of cutting school tab

    Staff Writer By vincent todaro EAST BRUNSWICK — While taking action to trim the 2002-03 school budget at a May 20 meeting, members of the Township Council expressed displeasure that they should be faced with such a difficult decision. While council members acknowledged the Board of Education also had been in a difficult position in…

  • Tax amnesty deadline approaching

    With less than two weeks to go until the June 10 deadline, New Jersey’s Tax Amnesty program has generated $43.6 million in collections, Amnesty Administrator Stephen M. Sylvester said this week in a press release. The state Division of Taxation has approximately 30,000 payments from individuals and companies, Sylvester said. The Amnesty program’s toll-free hotline,…

  • Community Bulletin Board NCADD plans bowling fund-raiser for June 1

    Community Bulletin Board NCADD plans bowling fund-raiser for June 1 The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) of Middlesex County Inc. will hold a "Knock Down Addiction Bowl-A-Thon" from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 1 at MidState Bowl, Route 18, East Brunswick. Bowlers of all ages are welcome to participate. Bumpers…

  • Former officials question school budget decisions

    HELMETTA — The debate continued last week over the April decision by the Borough Council to uphold all spending within the defeated 2002-03 school budget, which carries a $735 tax hike for the owner of property assessed at $70,000. The council approved the budget April 24 by a 4-1 vote. The $3.25 million budget had…

  • Bulletin Board Youth programs slated

    Bulletin Board Youth programs slated at Monroe Twp. Library In-person and telephone registration will begin at 10 a.m. on June 4 for a variety of summer children’s programs at the Monroe Township Library, 4 Municipal Plaza. "Preschool Story Time," open to children ages 3-5, will be offered at 10:15 or 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays or…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Frank Baptista, a third-grader at South River Elementary School, pretends to be a firefighter during the Government Day tour of borough departments.

  • Bulletin Board African American panel sets cancer discussion

    Bulletin Board African American panel sets cancer discussion The African American Cultural Association of East Brunswick will host a program titled "Early Detection: Cancer and African Men and Women" at 7:30 p.m. on May 30 at the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Guest presenter will be Dorothy Reed, a breast cancer survivor…