Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Groups may lobby for road projects

    Firms would pursue funds for Route 1 widening in S.B. BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer The South Brunswick Township Council is considering hiring professional lobbyists to work on the state and federal levels to raise funds for the widening of Route 1. “We need to be aggressive,” Township Manager Matthew Watkins…

  • MCC student, 11, ahead of time and peers

    BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Dakota Killpack, 11, walks the campus of Middlesex County College last week. He’s likely the youngest student ever in New Jersey’s community college system. On any given day while classes are in session at Middlesex County College, the sight of Patricia Killpack chaperoning…

  • Fire district is eager to expand its station

    East Brunswick District No. 2 to gain much-needed space BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Fire District No. 2 soon will have a bigger and improved facility thanks to a few votes last fall. On Nov. 27, some 38 voters approved a $3 million plan to add onto the…

  • Greater Media Newspapers purchases Latinos Unidos

    Greater Media Newspapers Inc. has announced the purchase of Latinos Unidos, a 25,000 circulation, monthly Spanish language newspaper serving Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Greater Media Newspapers currently publishes 12 weekly newspapers serving Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, with a combined weekly circulation of 305,000. Latinos Unidos, founded and owned by Jackson resident Jorge A.…

  • Police thankful people stayed home

    Towns brace for overtime bills expected from plow crews BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Snowmobilers had Cherry Blossom Drive in Monroe to themselves for part of the day Sunday when the snow finally stopped falling. Local towns dealt with high snowdrifts, icy roads, school closings and an occasional…

  • Town seeks input on PRC ‘overlay’ zones

    Monroe engineer says it BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — The township is still mulling over details of a possible zone change to allow planned retirement communities to be built on land zoned for single-family use. The ordinance, creating what are called PRC (or planned retirement community) overlay zones, would…

  • Widow seeks barriers on all state highways

    Fred Goldberg was killed when a driver crossed a grass median BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer If Florence Goldberg has her way, all dangerous New Jersey highways would have strong center barriers, unlike the grass median that played a role in her husband’s death. Goldberg, whose husband, Fred, was killed last month when a driver…

  • Fund-raisers

    Jan. 27 • Family Dine-Out/Take-Out Night, sponsored by the Monroe Township High School PTO, 5-9 p.m., at Subway, 78 W. Railroad Ave., Jamesburg. Subway will donate part of the proceeds to the PTO to benefit the high school’s scholarship fund. Call Rini at (732) 656-1013. • Cell phone collection and empty inkjet or laser computer…

  • South River freshman ready for acting debut

    Olivia Baptista Olivia Baptista lands role in off-Broadway play due to open next month BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — It’s 6 p.m., and Olivia Baptista has just entered the studio on West 61st Street, where she and the rest of the cast of “Countdown” are nearing their last week of rehearsals. She’s…