Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Students, staff surpass goal for tsunami relief

    E.B. pupils found many peers, relatives eager to make donations BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A district-wide initiative to help tsunami victims has raised more than $20,000, and money is still coming in. All 11 township schools as well as the administrative offices were involved in the relief…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff A pair of young tubers take advantage of the approximate 1 foot of snow that fell over the weekend on a hill near Cherry Blossom Drive in Monroe Sunday.

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…