Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Home offers comfort to families of ill children
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer The Ronald McDonald House at 145 Somerset St., New Brunswick, opened recently. The Ronald McDonald House offers families with children stricken by illness a normal life outside the hospital. Now, this home away from home is available to local families. The New Brunswick Ronald McDonald House,…
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Town expects to sell former school property
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer The Weber School, which the township is planning to sell. EAST BRUNSWICK — The township is planning to sell the property that is now home to the Weber School, a former public school that has fallen into disrepair in recent years. The Township Council on May…
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Teen headed to national chemistry competition
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Much like the greatest scientific discoveries, Alex Zozula’s chemistry prowess seemingly came out of nowhere. But it’s taking him places, including Colorado and possibly even Taiwan. That’s what the 17-year-old East Brunswick High School junior is hoping for, anyway. Alex is one of…
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Authorities: Woman’s death was a homicide
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — The death of a woman whose skeletal remains were found this week off Cranbury-South River Road, near Docks Corner Road, has been ruled a homicide. The bones, semicovered with dirt, were found around 12:17 p.m. Tuesday when a surveyor who was working in the…
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Spotswood tightens up junkyard regulations
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The borough’s junkyard law is being changed in an effort to make things a little more quiet and peaceful for residents who happen to live near such a site. On June 13, the Borough Council will hold a public hearing on the ordinance, which…
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Group proposes changes to boro’s Ford Ave. plan
Citizens want site to be half open space, half commercial BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Milltown MILLTOWN — Members of the Milltowners for a Sensible Ford Avenue Redevelopment recently unveiled their version of what the project should look like. The map presented last week is the product of two recent meetings…
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Former teacher charged with sexual assault
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer A 26-year-old Matawan man was arrested last week on sexual assault charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a 17-year-old Monroe Township High School student. Police said Claude Thouret III was working as a teacher at the school in February when the relationship is believed to…
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Sol Lurie, a Holocaust survivor, shows East Brunswick students the number branded on his arm by Nazis during World War II as part of the recent “We Are Your Voice” program that involved 160 middle school students and 16 high school teens. For more on the program, see story, page 16.
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Council shaves $2M off E.B. school budget
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The defeated school budget has been reduced by $2 million, meaning the tax increase will be closer to 23 cents than the original 28 cents. The Township Council announced the cut at a special meeting Thursday, at which a number of residents and…
