Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Compost bin project transforms a boy into an Eagle Scout

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer A local Boy Scout turned trash into treasure for his Eagle Scout project. Atreya Verma of North Brunswick built a three-bin compost unit at the children’s park in Rutgers Gardens to make more compost available in order to increase productivity. “The garden relies on compost to increase its soil fertility.…

  • South River history chronicled through photographic images

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer Richard Van Dyke Reid, left, photographed Frederick William Bissett’s grocery and drug store, above left, at the corner of Main Street and Ferry Street in South River in the 1890s. Above right: A view of lower Main Street in South River on Oct. 26, 1895, while the digging was taking…

  • East Brunswick awaits ruling on affordable housing obligations

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Township officials are awaiting a court ruling regarding its affordable housing obligations in a process that many see as uncharted territory. The arcane world of affordable housing regulations became a bit more complex earlier this year when the state Supreme Court moved to dissolve the Council…

  • Missing man found dead in Monroe

    By JENNIFER AMATO & ADAM UZIALKO Staff Writers Alfred Fiume MONROE — A man who was last seen on July 26 was found dead in Monroe Township on July 29. Alfred “Fred” Fiume, 53, of Rutherford, did not show up for work in Jamesburg on July 28. At around 12:16 p.m. July 29, the Monroe…

  • Milltown mourns groundhog Mel after 6 years of winter forecasts

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Milltown Mel, the beloved groundhog who predicted the weather on Feb. 2 for the past six years, has passed away. SCOTT FRIEDMAN MILLTOWN — The beloved Milltown Mel, the soothsaying groundhog, has passed away. “I think it was a combination of his age and the hot air,” said Councilman Jerry…

  • County announces winners of senior art competition

    Winners of the Middlesex County Senior Art Contest will be honored during a ceremony on Aug. 14. The Middlesex County Freeholder Board and its Office of Aging and Disabled Services held their annual competition for professional and non-professional artists over age 60. Local winners include: Acrylic: 2nd Place Professional, Necati Itez of Monroe for “Hoopoe…

  • Pageants provide platform for crusade against Alzheimer’s

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Danielle Micale of Milltown earned the title of Mrs. Northeast International 2014 by highlighting Alzheimer’s disease in honor of her late grandmother, Mildred McLaughlin. PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIELLE MICALE MILLTOWN — A beauty is working in various ways to slay a deadly beast. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause…

  • Monroe farm’s gentle horses evoke seniors’ fond memories

    By MICHAEL NUNES Staff Writer Donald McClure meets Coco, a therapeutic horse, at Superior Horse Farms in Monroe on July 30. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL NUNES/STAFF MONROE — Sometimes horses can do what humans just cannot. “Most of our residents have been around horses all their lives. I like to do programs that are memorable experiences,”…

  • Mourners pay tribute to EMT killed in crash

    By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Spotswood EMT Hinal K. Patel, 22, was killed in a motor vehicle accident on July 25. Emergency personnel from across the state paid their respects during her funeral service on July 27. A sea of emergency personnel came from all over to pay their final respects to a young Spotswood…