Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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,…

  • Parents step up effort to keep school open

    Corpus Christi supporters meeting with diocese rep BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Parents hope strength in numbers can help stop the last Catholic school in South River from closing. About 60 parents gathered Tuesday night at Corpus Christi School to discuss how they can convince the Diocese of Metuchen to not…

  • Band leader leaves school on high note

    Monroe resident to focus on arranging, composing music BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer John Swoboda For 37 years, Old Bridge schools have been making beautiful music, thanks to band leader and music teacher John Swoboda. Swoboda, of Monroe Township, retired Jan. 1 from his position as band and music theory teacher…

  • Photo

    JOHN E. SZPARA Trevor Lepucki (l) places a car on the track while Mike Tarantino gets ready to release the cars during the Pinewood Derby held by South River Cub Scout Pack 4 Saturday at Holy Trinity Church, Leonardine Avenue. Scouts Bruce Santos and Kevin Brosseau prepare for the start.

  • Local man takes shot in ‘untapped’ market

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Lapell Crank, owner of Just About Boxing, practices some moves with student Joe Somma as others wait their turn at ringside Tuesday night. OLD BRIDGE — For those who have always wanted to learn how to float like a butterfly and sting like…

  • Too much traffic? Take the bus, planner says

    Middlesex County Planning Director George M. Ververides has found a simple way to deal with the ever-increasing truck traffic on county roads. He stays off them as much as possible and takes the bus to work. “I have to practice what I preach,” Ververides said. “I’m trying to encourage people to take mass transportation. I…