Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • H MONROE H

    H MONROE H No. of registered voters: 23,450 Percentage of voters participating: 47% No. of registered voters: 23,450 Percentage of voters participating: 47% Mayor Richard Pucci* (D) 7,967 Nancy Miller Paul (R) 3,195 Township Council (Two three-year terms) Irwin Nalitt* (D) 7,205 John Riggs* (D) 7,046 Audrey Cornish (R) 3,568 Stephen S. Williams (R) 3,425

  • Police: Basketball game led to fight, stabbing

    BY JOLENE HARTStaff Writer Police: Basketball game led to fight, stabbing BY JOLENE HART Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — A fight that erupted after a men’s league basketball game at St. Mary of Ostrabrama CYO Center, Jackson Street, resulted in the stabbing of a 24-year-old Hazlet man, according to police. Police arrested a borough resident,…

  • H SOUTH RIVER H

    H SOUTH RIVER H H SOUTH RIVER H No. of registered voters: 7,186 Percentage of voters participating: 36.6% Mayor Robert Szegeti* (D) 1,620 John M. Krenzel (R) 1,031 Borough Council (Two three-year terms) Linda A. Ejk* (D) 1,531 Richard J. Reichenbach* (D) 1,506 Donna M. Balazs (R) 1,047 John T. Treciak (R) 1,050

  • Tickets available for library storytelling fest

    Barbara McBride-Smith will be the featured performer at the East Brunswick Friends of the Library’s 11th annual James Hess Folklore and Storytelling Festival set for 8 p.m. on Nov. 22 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 23 at the library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Tickets are on sale at the library circulation desk. The Nov. 22…

  • Bradford wins easily; council race split

    BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Bradford wins easily; council race split Gloria Bradford BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Repub-licans were all smiles Tuesday night as they gained a seat on the Borough Council and won the mayoralty for another four years. Republican Gloria Bradford defeated Democrat Gerard Cappella, the current council president, by a…

  • Attorney says district downplayed incident

    BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Attorney says district downplayed incident BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — An attorney representing a student reportedly assaulted at East Brunswick High School last month has expressed dismay with the school district’s response to the matter. Attorney Robert Gluck, of New Brunswick, appeared before the Board of Education last…

  • Board touts savings from new contract

    BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Board touts savings from new contract BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — At a time when the township’s school budget is under continuous pressure to be cut, a new teachers’ contract is expected to save the district millions due to a change in health benefit plans. The Board of…

  • Rail survey indicates mixed signals on MOM

    BY CHARLES W. KIMStaff Writer BY CHARLES W. KIM Staff Writer A recent poll may not be the sweeping endorsement of the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex rail proposal that officials had hoped. "They (residents) need to be educated because the majority of them are unaware of the MOM project," the June survey by McLaughlin & Associates of Alexandria,…

  • $1.7M grant will fund

    Grekoski Park project SOUTH RIVER — Grekoski Park soon will undergo a series of improvements and significant expansion. Major construction at the park on Whitehead Avenue is scheduled to begin in December and reach completion in the fall of 2004. On Friday, Mayor Robert Szegeti led a ground-breaking ceremony at the park to announce the…