Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Just take this pill and run with the puppies

    Lori C linch Are We There Yet? As I dragged my way across the kitchen floor the other morning, with high hopes of reaching the coffee pot, the kids moved around me in a frenzy. My little Lawrence was unable to locate his homework. Huey was in a panic as he tried to find his…

  • Monroe names four rookie police officers

    Chief John Kraivec says they represent the BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — Less than two months after being named the township’s new police chief, John Kraivec welcomed four more officers to the police department. Officers Griffin M. Banos, Richard W. Livingston, Paul A. Pappas Jr. and Joseph M. Sudnick…

  • District report outlines ways of helping students

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — School officials are trying to make parents aware of a number of programs being used to help students with common and not-so-common problems, from drug abuse to social issues. During a presentation at the Jan. 13 Board of Education meeting, Janet Cervalli, supervisor…

  • Lincoln and Washington focus of elaborate display

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff East Brunswick Historical Society members (l-r) Norma Speena, Estelle Goldsmith and Doris Fleming put the finishing touches on the group’s tribute to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln Tuesday morning at the township’s library. The display, in honor of the former presidents’ birthdays, runs…

  • Author’s first novel an interplanetary thriller

    Sayreville writer says the story has been in his head for years Daniel Holderman SAYREVILLE — His book is literally out of this world. Daniel Holderman, who has lived here since he was 11, has had the idea of his new science fiction novel, “The Heritage of Terra: The Endeavor,” in his head for years.…

  • 2 men rob Rte. 18 shop

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Two men entered a jewelry store last week and ran off with a ring worth $5,000, according to police. The two black males walked into Greenfield Jewelers, Route 18, and asked to see a diamond ring in the case, police said. When an employee showed them the ring, one of the men…

  • Track will be repaired for now; replaced later

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The rubberized track behind East Brunswick High School is usable, but repairs are planned to help the surface last a couple more years. Director of Support Services Donald Hewins said students are able to use the track, though it is not in the…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Sean Rotkowitz, Old Bridge, has his hair cut by Lauren Biehl, a hairstylist with Sebastiano Hair Studio, in the Brunswick Square Mall, East Brunswick. Hairstylists volunteered their time during Saturday’s snowstorm to raise money for the Louise Stewart Memorial Scholarship Fund. Stewart was a longtime cosmetology teacher at the Middlesex County Vocational…

  • Track will be repaired for now; replaced later

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The rubberized track behind East Brunswick High School is usable, but repairs are planned to help the surface last a couple more years. Director of Support Services Donald Hewins said students are able to use the track, though it is not in the…