Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Look locally when shopping for your fall home improvement needs

    fall HOME Builders’ General Supply The fall season is the perfect backdrop for deep cleaning, home spruce-ups and home improvement projects you’ve been putting off, inside and outside of your home. Now is the time to shop around for those household items you need and desire. It is also the time to find just the…

  • Jamesburg unsuccessful in debt relief request

    Board member: When does it stop being about the dollar and become about fairness? BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — A pending $600,000 debt service tab for the Jamesburg School District charged by Monroe will remain after the Monroe Township Board of Education opted not to modify the current send-receive agreement. School officials in…

  • Many current trends in outdoor living amenities are captured in prepackaged kits

    fallHOME By Charles H. Gamarekian Thanks to a whole new crop of outdoor living conveniences, homeowners now crave all the comforts of indoor spaces — only outdoors. Today’s diverse lifestyles dictate what families want to add to patio plans. Among these are open-air kitchens, outdoor fireplaces and fire pits, and what are commonly referred to…

  • Two killed, four injured in crash near E.B. temple

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Two people were killed and four others were injured Saturday when a motorist lost control of her vehicle and struck five pedestrians as they were walking home from a religious service. Two of the pedestrians, a husband and wife, both 51 years old, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash,…

  • South River officials discuss reducing electric fees for seniors

    Some council members displeased that motion to draft ordinance was a ‘surprise’ BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — Electricity is a hot topic in the borough. Councilman Thomas Roselli made a motion during the at the Aug. 27 Borough Council meeting to authorize the borough attorney and chief financial officer to draft an ordinance…

  • East Brunswick superintendent announces retirement

    Magistro will serve until end of 2012-13 school year By James McEvoy EAST BRUNSWICK — After a decade of leading the township’s school district, Superintendent of Schools Jo Ann Magistro will retire at the end of this school year. The Board of Education accepted Magistro’s notice of intent to retire during its Sept. 13 meeting.…

  • Middlesex County Greenway to open officially on Sept. 15

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The long wait is over. Middlesex County officials are set to officially open and dedicate the Middlesex County Greenway at 11 a.m. Sept. 15 at the trailhead entrance on Middlesex Avenue in Metuchen. After the dedication, officials will take a walk on the trail. The Middlesex County Greenway has been…

  • How do you stop hate crimes?

    Retired professor says simplest thing to do is to stand up when intolerance occurs BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Residents in the Monmouth Heights development in Manalapan awoke to symbols and messages of hate that were scrawled throughout the neighborhood during the overnight hours of Sept. 5-6. MARK ROSMAN Shards of glass pour onto the…

  • Monmouth Heights jolted by anti-Semitic vandalism

    Police, Prosecutor’s Office seek suspects in Sept. 6 bias crime in Manalapan BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Cars were the targets of vandals who spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti throughout the Monmouth Heights development in Manalapan during the overnight hours of Sept. 5-6. READER-SUBMITTED PHOTO MANALAPAN — Commuters heading up Route 9 got a jolt of ugliness…