Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Pearson tells students ‘look sharp, be smart’

    Drew Pearson Former Dallas Cowboy returns to South River to discuss life’s lessons BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer With his shaved head and pinstriped suit, Drew Pearson looked a bit different than the student who walked the halls with a large Afro and street clothes 36 years ago. When the football legend and 1969 South…

  • A walk in the park

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Local seniors enjoy the outdoors during the Senior Walk in Thompson Park. At left, Fred Del Santo has his blood pressure checked before participating in the walk.

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Re-enactors with the 43rd New York Infantry Volunteers give students at Churchill Junior High School, East Brunswick, a firing demonstration using Civil War-era weapons during a daylong living history demonstration Friday.

  • ‘Lucky John’s’ love of poetry led to full life

    John Ciardi BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer John Ciardi On a quiet street downtown Metuchen lived a man who was born into poverty but who became a millionaire doing what he loved ––writing poetry. He shared Thanksgiving dinners with Isaac Asimov and lectured students at Harvard. He was a guest twice…

  • Acreage at fairgrounds will cost $1.47M

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township has reached an agreement with the Middlesex County Fair Association for the purchase of about 9 acres of the fairgrounds land on Cranbury Road. The settlement, announced at Monday night’s Township Council meeting, will allow the township to buy the 9.22…

  • MCUA asked to reduce discharge into Raritan

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer A local watchdog group is hoping a new permit will force the Middlesex County Utilities Authority (MCUA) to clean things up. Effective this month, the MCUA is no longer working under conditions outlined in its last wastewater treatment plant permit, which was issued in 1992 and…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Members of the Spotswood VFW including (l-r) Arlene and Gary Stoop, Fred Hague, and Bob and Nancy Beach pack boxes of goods to be shipped to troops overseas Saturday. The post continued to raise funds for future shipments by holding a charity poker run on Sunday. Hundreds of motorcyclists were expected to…

  • Board decides on cuts in defeated school tab

    List of reductions includes elimination of 27 proposed aides BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Board of Education has accepted the $2 million budget cut ordered by the Township Council, but will not go along with certain areas the council recommended for cuts. At its June 2 meeting,…

  • Grant money will help town purchase 70 acres

    Value of property still to be determined due to developer BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — Thompson Park will be expanded by about 70 acres in what officials are calling the park’s third expansion. Township Engineer Ernest Feist said the township recently received a $400,000 grant from the state Green…