Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Vietnam memorial replica coming in fall

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Vietnam memorial replica coming in fall BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The people of Middlesex County will soon have a special opportunity to honor veterans of the Vietnam War with a visit and a little volunteerism. "The Wall That Heals," a scaled-down replica of the original Vietnam…

  • Teen Dems to fight for partisan, but open, club

    EBHS students airtheir concerns beforeBoard of Education BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EBHS students air their concerns before Board of Education BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A proposed teenage Democratic club that was changed to be nonpartisan has for now become no club at all. But its supporters are not ready to give…

  • Rte. 18 station robbed

    EAST BRUNSWICK — A Route 18 gas station was robbed last week by a man who shoved a handgun into an attendant’s stomach while demanding money. The robbery took place at 11:22 p.m. July 20 at the Hess station located at the state highway’s intersection with Albert Street. Police said the 52-year-old gas station attendant…

  • County fair to offer more than ever before

    Festivities run Aug. 2-8at the fairgroundsin East Brunswick BYJOHNDUNPHYStaff Writer PHOTO BY JEFF GRANIT staff Tents are set up for the upcoming Middlesex County fair, to be held Aug. 2-8 in East Brunswick. Festivities run Aug. 2-8 at the fairgrounds in East Brunswick BYJOHNDUNPHY Staff Writer Children and adults alike will have a lot to…

  • Farming from A to Z is the family tradition

    Ticetown Road manis the county BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer Ticetown Road man is the county’s Farmer of the Year for 2004 BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Above, John J. Hauser, of Old Bridge, who has been named Middlesex County’s Farmer of the Year for 2004, checks out some…

  • Almost 50 years on the job and no plans to retire

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Judy Nicholson (above left), R.N., and Director of Ambulatory Nursing Jean Gregowicz discuss a patient at Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy. At left, Gregowicz in her Perth Amboy Hospital School of Nursing graduation photo in 1957. When Jean Gregowicz began her…

  • Building costs given as board decision nears

    Some options would likely be followed by second referendum BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Building costs given as board decision nears BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer East Brunswick school officials continue to seek residents’ feedback on an upcoming building proposal, the specifics of which will be decided on Aug. 19. The school district has just released…

  • Music is medicine to talented octogenarians

    After performing for 60 years, duo using artistic powers as therapy BY SETHMANDELStaff Writer Music is medicine to talented octogenarians BY SETHMANDEL Staff Writer Rose Anklowitz MONROE — Rose Anklowitz and Russ Locandro are not doctors, but they provide one of the most potent remedies on the market — music. Locandro, 81, and Anklowitz, who…

  • Photo

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Nicky Lumbard, 5, gets a sword tatoo painted on his arm by Jared Gelb during last week’s Mt. SEPA carnival at Monroe’s Barclay Brook School. Amber Malmstadt, 8, paints one on Charlotte McCartin, 9.