Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Eviction deadline pushed back for Milltown shops

    MILLTOWN — One month after being notified they will have to leave or be evicted from their businesses, some of the eight shop owners at 87 Washington Ave. are still scrambling to find a new place to set up shop. The county filed condemnation proceedings in November to acquire the 14-acre site from its then-owner,…

  • Governor picks up quilt for display at library Quilt made by Monroe students is a tribute to residents lost on 9/11

    Staff Writer By lynn k, barra Governor picks up quilt for display at library Quilt made by Monroe students is a tribute to residents lost on 9/11 Gov. James E. McGreevey paid a visit to the Brookside School in Monroe Monday morning to accept a quilt made by local students to commemorate Sept. 11. The…

  • Long-awaited traffic light may arrive this summer

    Staff Writer By lynn K. Barra JAMESBURG — Residents are expected to soon see an end to the traffic tie-ups at the intersection of Perrineville Road, Gatzmer Avenue and Forsgate Drive, three years after borough officials began pursuing a solution. With the recent approval from the state Department of Transportation to install the long-awaited traffic…

  • Union fights proposed cut of 38 custodian positions

    Staff Writer By brian donahue EAST BRUNSWICK — Members of the school district’s Education Association, who learned last week that the Board of Education is considering the cutting of 38 custodial jobs as part of the 2002-03 school budget, are turning out in large numbers at budget hearings in an attempt to keep many of…

  • Wall of Fame inductee donates sculpture

    Staff Writer By jennifer dome FARRAH MAFFAI South River Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Ambrogi (l) stands beside sculptor Blaise Batko, who donated a ram sculpture to South River High School after being inducted into the school’s Wall of Fame. SOUTH RIVER — In the lobby of South River High School, a sculpture of an…

  • Holiday Inn approved after parking concern is allayed

    Staff Writer By vincent todaro Holiday Inn approved after parking concern is allayed EAST BRUNSWICK — The Zoning Board of Adjustment has voted to approve the construction of a Holiday Inn Express hotel near the Village Swim Club on Naricon Place. The board gave site plan approval, at its March 7 meeting, a use variance…

  • Hoops event with officials, students raises $2K plus

    Staff Writer By lynn K. Barra DAWNMARIE SANNWALDT Craig Bauer (on the floor), an eighth-grader at the Joyce Kilmer School, Milltown, makes a diving attempt to claim the ball as Milltown Councilman Gerard Cappella reaches for it during a fund-raising event at Parkview School March 1. MILLTOWN — The Parkview Elementary School gymnasium was the…

  • Medical arts building OK’d for site next to high school

    Medical arts building OK’d for site next to high school By albert connelly Jr. Correspondent EAST BRUNSWICK — An application filed by Orchard M.A.B. Associates to build a two-story 19,600-square-foot medical office building next to East Brunswick High School was approved March 6 by the Planning Board. At the board’s request, the applicant, in its…

  • Boro may fund projects at garage, tennis courts, etc.

    Boro may fund projects at garage, tennis courts, etc. By vincent todaro Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The Borough Council has introduced an ordinance, authorizing $248,000 to be spent on capital expenditures this year. The ordinance, introduced March 4, includes funds to improve the parking lot at the borough’s Senior Center and the tennis courts at…