Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Boro sees potential for 18.6-cent tax rate rise

    Borough Council is hoping state aid will help offset tax impact BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer Jamesburg residents could see their first municipal tax increase in three years under the proposed 2005 budget. The $4.6 million spending plan, as introduced at the Feb. 23 Borough Council meeting, carries an 18.6-cent increase in the municipal tax…

  • Town concerned about loss of federal funding

    Imperiled CDBG program has funded numerous local projects BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Proposed cuts and changes in the federal budget have township officials worried long-standing township services will be affected. Mayor William Neary said he is concerned a new federal budget proposed by President George W. Bush…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Heather Marchini, 11, of Monroe, is airborne after a jump on the sledding path at Thompson Park in Monroe Tuesday morning following Monday night’s snowfall.

  • Sleigh gliding

    JEFF GRANIT staff Alaric Luethi, 6, of Monroe, takes his turn on the hill at Thompson Park in Monroe Tuesday morning.

  • No one steps up for third available seat

    Two file to run for three seats on Jamesburg board BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JAMESBURG — Two incumbents were the only candidates to file for three available seats on the Board of Education in time for Monday’s deadline. Donald Peterson, 33, and Frank Tarulli, 47, will seek their third and…

  • Meyer’s plaza

    An artist’s rendering of the proposed site.

  • Resident, boro at odds over sewer-line costs

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MILLTOWN — A dispute over the responsibility of a sewer-line repair has a local couple asking to be reimbursed by the borough. John and Karen Collins, of West Foch Avenue, have asked the borough for the $4,900 they spent to repair a sewer line that they…

  • Local man’s recovery is a community effort

    Sayreville salon will hold benefit Sunday for South River resident BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer When Michael Daly first noticed pains in his back last summer, the 26-year-old didn’t think it was anything serious. After all, Michael is an active person. He coaches boys middle school soccer and junior varsity basketball…

  • Healthy habits

    PHOTOSBY SCOTT PILLING staff Above, Martha Zaki (l) and Ursula Marek (r) of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Shape It Up program help Finn Ebersbach, a second-grader at East Brunswick’s Chittick Elementary School, demonstrate how much sugar would be needed in a glass of water to equal the amount in a glass of soda. At…