Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Natural beauty

    JEFF GRANIT staff Children look on as the setting sun is reflected on Helmetta Pond.

  • Shuttle brings seniors, disabled ‘into the loop’

    Plan for bus lines through southern parts of county kicks off next week BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer Freedom was never so inexpensive.Middlesex County officials yesterday announced plans to provide senior citizens, those with disabilities and others confined to their homes with low-cost bus services throughout the southern portion of the county. “This is fantastic,”…

  • Neary’s new job to help keep county moving

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Mayor William Neary has been selected as the new executive director of Keep Middlesex Moving, a group focused on transportation needs in the county. Neary succeeds Peter Cantu, who held the post for 16 years, since the nonprofit organization was founded several years…

  • Ferrie will stay with Monroe 5 more years

    Superintendent gets contract extension from Board of Education BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Monroe MONROE — Superintendent of Schools Ralph P. Ferrie has a new contract that will keep him with the district through 2010. The contract was approved at a special meeting of the Board of Education on June 1.…

  • Official wants further anti-smoking measures

    E.B. council OKs smoking prohibition in township parks BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — If you want to smoke in township parks, you’d better do it in the parking lot. The Township Council adopted an ordinance that regulates smoking in parks, prohibiting it in all areas except the parking…

  • St. Peter’s Hospital sets Children’s Health and Safety Fair for June 25

    St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, will host its Children’s Health and Safety Fair from 1-4 p.m. on June 25 at the hospital’s main entrance, 254 Easton Ave. The event, which is sponsored by the Children’s Hospital at St. Peter’s, is designed to teach parents how to plan for a safe summer and help their…

  • Borough recalls service of late community leader

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — With the passing of Deborah Pacyna, the borough lost a leader and a friend. That’s how Borough Council President James Shearn described Pacyna, who died at the age of 55 in February after battling cancer. Pacyna served 18 years on the borough’s Zoning Board…

  • Sale of school on hold due to mysterious deed

    Document from 1923 states that site can only have BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The old Weber School property may not be up for grabs after all, because a deed limitation could sabotage its sale. Jack and Ronnie Collins, who live next to the township-owned property at Riva…

  • Library officials press for building expansion

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER — The borough’s public library needs to be expanded, one way or another. That is what library officials are saying of the 26-year-old establishment on Appleby Avenue. At 8,500 square feet in size, the facility currently has 43,000 items in its collection. The Borough…