Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Youth theater group forming at Lakeview
New troupe will stage productions at historic Buckelew Ave. building BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JAMESBURG — Usually, when performers scare off their audience, it’s not an encouraging sign. But when Monroe and Spotswood high school students did just that at a Halloween performance this year, Don Bernhardt Jr. saw an…
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Greater Media Newspapers wins 29 NJPA awards for ’04
Greater Media Newspapers has won 26 editorial, photography and advertising awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2004. The group tally included 12 awards for outstanding photography, nine awards for classified advertising, one award for retail advertising, and four awards for reporting. Photographer Jeff Granit won three first-place awards in the…
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See serpent
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Cathlin Smith, 4, Joe Markus and daughter Marissa, 4, check out The Lizard Guys’ demonstration at St. George’s Church in Helmetta Saturday.
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Local businesswoman recognized for service
BY ANDREA OLIVIO Staff Writer BY ANDREA OLIVIOStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A township woman who specializes in long-term care insurance has been named Middlesex County Businesswoman of the Year for 2005 by the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO). The award, which goes to one member of every county chapter in New…
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Fund-raisers
April 28 • “Hometown Savings 2005” Book Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the Spotswood Public Library, 548 Main St. Books contain discount coupons from many local retailers and large, chain merchants in Spotswood, East Brunswick, South River, Milltown, Monroe, Old Bridge. Coupons expire Dec. 31. Cost is $18. All proceeds benefit the Friends and…
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Dance troupe wins honors
SPOTSWOOD — Members of the Dance Carousel’s J-Stepper Dance Co. recently won a first-place platinum award at the Rhythm in Dance Talent Competition at the Ocean Place Hilton in Long Branch. The 50-member dance company from the Summerhill Road studio performed “Good Morning/No Bad News” for the first time at the event. The production number…
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Towns stand opposed to new ‘fast track’ law
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Though the slowness of government has long been the topic of many complaints, it may not always be so slow for some. And that would be developers and others applying for a variety of building-related permits. These parties would gain from what is…
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Board continues hearing on cell tower application
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Residents are wondering why their neighborhood was chosen for Omnipoint’s proposed cellular tower. The cellular provider, which wants to place a 150-foot monopole with at least 12 antennas at 469 Cranbury Road near the Colonial Oaks Village and Timber Hollow developments, continued its…
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DARE to be the best
CHRIS KELLY staff South River Detective John McKenna is pictured with the Police Department’s DARE car, which recently was named New Jersey’s best DARE vehicle in the patrol category during an event sponsored by the New Jersey DARE Officers Association and DARE New Jersey in Atlantic City. The 1997 Ford Crown Victoria is a former…
