Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Township’s flight of fancy winning awards

    East Brunswick BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer East Brunswick’s butterfly park draws colorful visitors BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Photos by MIGUEL JUAREZ staff David Moskowitz (top photo) of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission holds a black swallowtail butterfly, which features a pull-off tail if attacked from the rear, during a visit to the township’s butterfly…

  • Local official, survivor to take part in 3-Day

    School board memberMichael Danatos isa cancer survivor BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Local official, survivor to take part in 3-Day School board member Michael Danatos is a cancer survivor BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Mike Danatos, an East Brunswick Board of Education member, is training and raising funds for a 60-mile walk to…