Category: Sentinel-EBS Calendar

  • Library receives grant for quilt project

    The East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center, is one of 21 libraries selected from 75 applicants to receive a Karma Foundation Tipping Point Grant. The library will receive $2,500 per year for two years. The funds will go toward producing 11 decorative quilts that will hang in the Youth Services Department as a…

  • Mortar shell results in evacuation

    Staff Writer By lynn K. Barra HELMETTA — Police evacuated 21 homes for close to three hours Saturday after a World War II military shell was found in a John Street home. Relatives of Geneva Kioski, who died in September, called the police at about 12:30 p.m. after discovering a bomb in her former residence,…

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    DAWN MARIE SANNWALDT Thomas Torre, 6, of Milltown, managed to build a wall of 194 playing cards in 90 minutes during an after-school program Jan. 9 at the Parkview School.

  • Skatepark on track to be built by end of school year

    Staff Writer By vincent todaro Skatepark on track to be built by end of school year EAST BRUNSWICK — To be sure its skatepark design will be a hit, the township’s Skatepark Committee is gathering input from the very people who will eventually use the facility — the young skaters. Tom Clark, a former Republican…

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    DAWN MARIE SANNWALDT New Jersey State Aquarium representatives presented “This Is Your Life,” an aquatic theater show, at the Monroe Public Library Jan. 16. Above, Jim Murtha plays “Tony the Tiger Shark” while Mike Flynn poses as a cleaner shrimp dentist. The show was sponsored by the Friends of the Library. At right, Kyle Freeman,…

  • Simon replaced by Klemp

    as E.B. council president By vincent todaro Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Township Councilman Donald Klemp has been elected to serve as the governing body’s president for 2002. Klemp was elected to the role at the Jan. 14 council meeting, replacing Councilman Jeffrey Simon, who served in that capacity in 2001. Councilman Saul Fink will…

  • At 90, sister is still doing what she loves – teaching

    Staff Writer By JENNIFER DOME At 90, sister is still doing what she loves – teaching Sister Mary Columbine SOUTH RIVER — Sister Mary Columbine turned 90 Jan. 16, and that alone may be a great accomplishment. But there is more life experience and knowledge behind her bright eyes and demure smile than most people…

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    DAWN MARIE SANNWALDT Cheryl Sommer of Milltown and her sons, Nicholas, 3, and Steven, 5, take advantage of the season’s first snow with a few trips down a snowy hill in the borough on Monday afternoon.

  • 2nd-graders get hands-on experience with a T. rex

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome 2nd-graders get hands-on experience with a T. rex VERONICA YANKOWSKI Second-graders (l-r) Christina Parillo, Vashti Harris, Brian Oliveira and Dylan Hays helped put together a stegosaurus similar to the completed T. rex in the background. SOUTH RIVER — No, it’s not the Museum of Natural History, it’s the South River…