Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Completion of Monroe Senior Center delayed

    Hamilton says officials are ‘in some pretty intense discussions’ with contractors BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — Construction on the township’s new Senior Center is unlikely to be completed until August after initially being slated for completion during the spring. The Township Council approved resolutions at a recent meeting that extend multiple contracts pertaining…

  • Monroe youth honored for being who they are

    Human Relations Commission presents awards for character BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — Many student achievements are often the result hard work and long hours of commitment to accomplish a specific goal. But the Monroe students recognized by the township’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) for exemplifying respect, caring and fairness toward their fellow classmates…

  • Fatal vision

    Above: While wearing alcohol-impairment goggles, Spotswood High School student Chris Evans drives a golf cart with Spotswood police Sgt. Joe Seylaz as his passenger during a driving-while-intoxicated simulation program at the school June 5. Police coordinated the activity to show students the dangers of drinking and driving. Below: Spotswood High School student Brett Kline, accompanied…

  • Life lessons

    Spotswood Police Detective Ed Schapley talks to students about the consequences of driving while intoxicated during an event at Spotswood High School June 5. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Daughter gives back to her beloved father, with a kidney

    South River man supported family by working two full-time jobs for 35 years Francis Anderson and daughter Sharon Feniello share a moment after recovering from transplant surgery. SOUTH RIVER — Francis Anderson worked two full-time jobs for 35 years as a history and religious education teacher by day at Marist High School in Bayonne, and…

  • State officials focus on library’s role in helping job seekers

    BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The New Jersey Assembly Education and Labor committees met June 19 at the East Brunswick Public Library to hear about local and statewide initiatives to help job seekers and employers. Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), who chairs the Education Committee, said holding the off-campus meeting at the library…

  • Principal: I didn’t change the world, just part of it

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Bruce Rothenberg A fter a 45-year career in education, Principal Bruce Rothenberg, a resident of Monroe, will be retiring from North Brunswick’s Parsons Elementary School at the end of the school year. “Nearly 45 years ago an idealistic young man began a journey to change the world. That remarkable journey…

  • Students celebrate graduation from adult school programs

    ESL, citizenship courses help immigrants assimilate into American culture BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Loretta Shi (l) works with student-turned-teaching assistant Rong Chang during an adult ESL class at East Brunswick Public Library. EAST BRUNSWICK — Students from the township’s adult English as a Second Language and Citizenship Preparation courses gathered June 6 to celebrate…

  • Giants rookies bring smiles to ‘wish children’

    Parent: You can’t put a value on this experience BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer This text will be replaced Zack Pollack of Passaic mingles with New York Giants defensive tackle Markus Kuhn, a member of the team’s rookie draft class, at Make-A-Wish New Jersey’s Samuel & Josephine Plumeri Wishing Place. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff…