Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Fore!

    PHOTOSBY JEFF GRANIT staff Above, Ira Camhi, of East Brunswick, tees off on the third hole at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Saturday, when many like him took advantage of the spring-like weather New Year’s Day. At left, a golfer shoots out of the rough.

  • East Brunswick settles with police on contracts

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — After two years of arbitration, both police unions have new contracts with the township. A state arbitrator ruled that the local Policeman’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and Superior Officers Association are entitled to 3.9-percent yearly pay increases, which is over half a percentile more…

  • Shivering rivalry

    FARRAH MAFFAI staff Jeffrey Berger, 10, of East Brunswick, plots his next target while his 7-year-old brother, Andrew, gathers snow at Camp Gone Israel Winter Camp at Chabad of South Brunswick Monday.

  • Retired Spotswood police chief dies at 63

    John Oliver is credited with modernizing local police department BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Borough residents are mourning the death of longtime Police Chief John E. Oliver, who retired in 2002. Oliver, who was 63, died Dec. 20 of a heart attack, his friends and family said. He served…

  • Chinese eatery robbed second time in two years

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — For the second time in slightly more than a year, an employee of a local Chinese restaurant was robbed at gunpoint. A woman employee of the China House restaurant, located in Apple Plaza on Applegarth Road, reported at 7:55 p.m. Dec. 23 that a…

  • Santa baby

    PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. PETER’S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL East Brunswick police officers paid a visit last week to kids at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, bringing Santa Claus, gifts and overall cheer to the pediatric ward and emergency room. The visits, coordinated by Sgt. Alan Quercia and sponsored by the East Brunswick Fraternal Order of…

  • Truck crash pours oil into stream

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — A truck overturned on Spotswood Gravel Hill Road Tuesday spilling 3,000 gallons of heating oil into a nearby stream. Police said the truck had turned on its side after running into a ditch along the road. The impact of the crash, which took place…

  • Scenes of 2004 Middlesex County

    Clockwise from top — Gen. Washington at a re-enactment in Edison in September; truck fire on ramp exiting I-287 south in Edison in May; JFK-Iselin defense players in January game with Metuchen; a Jamesburg resident walks through picturesque Thompson Park; Woodbridge’s students walk to raise money for diabetes; a group acts out a scene from…

  • Woman’s body found months after her death

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Police came across a grizzly discovery Tuesday when they entered an apartment and found a woman who had apparently been dead for months. The woman, whose name police would not yet disclose, lived on Bennett Court in a condominium she rented from her…