Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Group seeks answers, remedy to sewage leak
BY JOLENE HARTStaff Writer Group seeks answers, remedy to sewage leak BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — A sewage leak into a borough creek that may be ongoing could lead to an investigation by the state. The Edison Wetlands Association (EWA), a local environmental advocacy group, is calling for an investigation from the…
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Spotswood grad. recalls
leadership role in Iraq BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Spotswood grad. recalls JEFF GRANIT staff U.S. Marine Capt. Bezan Morris speaks to students at Spotswood High School. Behind him is a banner he took home from Iraq, reading, “Yes, yes for Saddam Hussein. Death to Americans and Zionism.” leadership role in Iraq BY VINCENT TODARO Staff…
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Three charged following
raids in E.B., Spotswood raids in E.B., Spotswood Two East Brunswick residents and a Spotswood man were arrested on drug charges following a two-month investigation by local and Middlesex County authorities. The arrests followed May 6 raids at an East Brunswick home that yielded some 43 marijuana plants, growing equipment and steroids, and at a…
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Board presses developer for affordable housing
Applicant seeks tobuild age-restricted Applicant seeks to build age-restricted community in E.B. BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Give us affordable housing, not money. That was the message the township Planning Board gave at its May 5 meeting to Arisa Realty Inc., which seeks to build more than 150 age-restricted residential units at…
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Budget cut; full-day
program kept intactCompromise reachedat well-attended meetingin Spotswood Monday BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Budget cut; full-day program kept intact Compromise reached at well-attended meeting in Spotswood Monday BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Full-day kindergarten will remain in the school budget, despite a 5-cent cut in the tax rate hike ordered by borough officials. The…
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Fireman dinner-dates going up for auction
BY JOLENE HARTStaff Writer Fireman dinner-dates going up for auction BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — If the price is right and the heat is on at Sunday’s bachelor auction, the borough’s volunteer fire department will have more funds in the bank and fewer eligible bachelors in its ranks. And let’s not forget…
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McGreevey unveils one-way toll plan
McGreevey unveils one-way toll plan By year’s end, drivers on the Garden State Parkway will only have to pay tolls on one side of the major toll plazas in Sayreville and Asbury Park. Gov. James E. McGreevey unveiled a plan last week to institute a one-way toll program by removing toll barriers on the northbound…
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Cruise Night to begin its third year tonight
BY JOLENE HARTStaff Writer Cruise Night to begin its third year tonight BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — Cruise Night arrives in the borough tonight at 5 p.m., promising cars, crowds and commotion in the downtown area. The event marks the start of Cruise Night’s third year in South River, noted Scott Laffin…
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Man behind the fliers stirs it up in Milltown
BY TARA PETERSENStaff Writer Man behind the fliers stirs it up in Milltown BY TARA PETERSEN Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Resident Michael Lewycky thrust himself into the community’s spotlight last month with a multi-page flier claiming the school board wastes taxpayer money. Lewycky, a substitute teacher in East Brunswick, handed out fliers the weekend before…
