Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Holiday Inn is first of two new hotels to open

    Company will soon open Comfort Suites on O.B. Turnpike BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Owner Kishor Sheth stands in the lobby of the recently opened Holiday Inn Express on Tower Center Boulevard, East Brunswick. EAST BRUNSWICK — One new hotel is up and running, and another is on…

  • Fund-raiser to benefit U.S. troops in Iraq

    Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1451, 31 Reid Street, South River, will hold a fund-raiser at 8 p.m. on Jan. 28 to support Operation Uplink, a program that provides phone cards to members of the U.S. armed forces serving in Iraq. Admission is $4 and includes entertainment by The Pulse, a band offering music…

  • Boro man charged with assault, threats to police

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER — A borough man was charged with aggravated assault after allegedly threatening police and struggling with officers at his home. Police said Paul Malinowski, 22, was in a drunken state and had been wreaking havoc inside his Charles Street home when police responded to…

  • Fund-raisers

    Jan. 20 • Cell phone collection and empty inkjet or laser computer cartridge collection, both sponsored by the Spotswood High School Band. Old cell phones will be sent to women’s shelters and to troops stationed overseas. Phones need not be in working condition or have chargers or batteries. Collection boxes are located at the high…

  • Shooting not random, police say

    EAST BRUNSWICK — The shooting of a township woman in her home Jan. 8 was not a random act, according to police. However, details surrounding the incident, in which three men reportedly broke into a townhouse on Park Knoll Drive and shot a 45-year-old woman in the abdomen, remain unclear. “We don’t believe it was…

  • Area troupe will explore adventures of ‘Peter Pan’

    Monroe resident in lead role of show in Marlboro BY BETH ANN SCIALABBA Correspondent BY BETH ANN SCIALABBACorrespondent The Marlboro Players will present J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” at the Marlboro Middle School on Jan. 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30. Melissa Lea Dennen, who will play the title role, is joined by fellow cast…

  • Auditions

    Community Christian Choir, an interfaith group of singers from New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania that rehearses in Allentown, N.J., will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Jan. 21, 28 and Feb. 4 at the Allentown Presbyterian Church, Route 539. The choir will be rehearsing a variety of contemporary Christian music for a series of benefit…

  • Photorealism movement explored in new exhibit

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer “Railroad Bridge,” by Randy Dudley, a 2004 oil-on-canvas. NEW BRUNSWICK — Photorealist paintings on display at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University offer a new perspective on reality. The “American Photorealism” exhibition features 67 paintings by 27 artists, including many influential in the photorealism movement,…

  • Rising truck traffic trend expected to continue

    Watchdog group BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Drivers in Middlesex County are more likely to be killed by a truck than anything else in the state, a trend predicted to continue over the next few decades. That’s just one of the ominous conclusions reached by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign,…