Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Greater Media Newspapers receives 6 SNA awards
Alison Granito Greater Media Newspapers received six awards in the 2002 Suburban Newspapers of America contest, including two first places in the highly competitive annual competition. SNA is a nonprofit, professional trade association specifically serving the suburban newspaper industry. SNA’s membership is comprised of approximately 2,000 suburban newspapers published by the leading multi-newspaper publishing companies…
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Doubly delightful
Victoria Serra, 9, (above l) and Breanna Carbone, 5, paint a heart ornament during a celebration honoring the Chinese New Year and the Mid-Jersey Chinese School’s 40th anniversary. At right, Josette Rogers, 5, has her hand painted Saturday at East Brunswick High School, Cranbury Road, where the celebration was held.
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Series of purse snatchings seen in 3 neighboring towns
Series of purse snatchings seen in 3 neighboring towns A rash of purse snatchings that took place during January in South River have continued with reports of the thefts in both East Brunswick and Milltown. A violent purse snatching was reported in the parking lot of the Brunswick Square Mall, Route 18, Jan. 29, white…
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Plan would turn old school into residential apartments
By vincent todaroStaff Writer Plan would turn old school into residential apartments By vincent todaro Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ A proposal has been submitted to turn the former Crandall School, located in East Brunswick’s Historic Village of Old Bridge, into seven apartments. EAST BRUNSWICK — The first school in the township to ever have multiple…
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Watershed group gets OK
to use Washington Ave. site By sandi carpelloStaff Writer to use Washington Ave. site By sandi carpello Staff Writer MILLTOWN — The remains of an historic building on Washington Avenue will be transformed into the headquarters for a local environmental group. The Borough Council unanimously voted Jan. 27 to permit the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership…
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Revived bureau will return investigations to detectives
By vincent todaroStaff Writer By vincent todaro Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — After being defunct for years, the borough’s detective bureau is back on the beat. For about 12 years, both initial and follow-up criminal investigations in the borough have been the job of patrolmen, as opposed to detectives whose sole job is to investigate, said…
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Two developments totaling 21 homes are approved
By sandi carpelloStaff Writer By sandi carpello Staff Writer MONROE — Just west of the Manalapan Brook, across from the township’s girls’ softball field, lies the future site of Sunrise Acres, a 15-lot single-family home development. The developer, P.C.T.Z. LLC, was granted preliminary major subdivision approval by the township’s Planning Board Jan. 23 to construct…
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40 charged in multi-town drug distribution network
Suspects from East Brunswick and Milltown among those arrested By jennifer kohlheppStaff Writer By jennifer kohlhepp Staff Writer Police from several agencies arrested 40 individuals to conclude an investigation into a local cocaine distribution network. Police used extensive surveillance over a four-month period to identify Michael "Boris" Ortega of North Brunswick as a large scale…
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GOP responds to mayor’s annual township address
By vincent todaroStaff Writer By vincent todaro Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Mayor William Neary’s annual State of the Township address was met with mixed reactions from local Republicans, who lauded the mayor on some of his ideas but continued to be critical of issues such as the new 6-acre zoning. Anthony Riccobono, a former…
