Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Officials: Budget shows East Brunswick is a model town

    Mayor, council move forward with municipal tax decrease BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer The East Brunswick Township Council has moved one step closer to adopting a 2012 budget that will reduce spending for the fourth year in a row. No members of the public chose to speak at a May 21 public hearing on the…

  • Graduates find community college experience rewarding

    Valedictorian: Class of 2012 is excited, scared … ready BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Members of the Middlesex County College class of 2012 proceed to their seats at the start of the May 17 graduation ceremony in Edison. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Some 1,408 graduates bid farewell last week to Middlesex County College, Edison,…

  • Jamesburg officials adopt ‘bare-bones’ budget

    Resident accuses officials of having conflicts, failing to find ways to ease tax burden BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer The Jamesburg Borough Council has adopted a municipal budget that will increase municipal taxes $56 on the average home. The $5 million budget, which includes $3.6 million to be raised through taxation, was approved in a…

  • New-look Pine Ridge Park now one of E.B.’s ‘jewels’

    $941K renovation project brings new amenities to neighborhood park BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Spotswood High School student Ryan Somlin looks for living things to examine in Lake DeVoe on May 18 as part of a cross-grade level ecology lesson that involved elementary, middle and high school students from Spotswood. Story, page 16. JEFF GRANIT…

  • Photos add missing pieces to cemetery database

    Historical society member’s digital photos often reveal new details BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Among the 2,800 photos associated with 3,741 entries in the South River Historical & Preservation Society’s cemetery database are the gravestones of the borough’s first mayor, James Bissett. Stephanie Bartz of the South River Historical & Preservation Society was spending a fair…

  • Students get hands-on ecology lesson at DeVoe

    BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Spotswood High School’s Mallory Kolar puts on fishing boots before stepping into DeVoe Lake for a cross-grade-level ecology lesson on May 18. JEFF GRANIT staff SPOTSWOOD — Nearly 100 students from borough schools made Lake DeVoe their own personal laboratory May 18. The students, including fourth-graders fromAppleby School, a team…

  • Banners honoring Milltown veterans to line streets

    Legion post pays tribute to 22 ‘Hometown Heroes’ BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Borough residents will see some new faces and some old ones, too, when they walk down John F Kennedy Drive and Washington Avenue this Memorial Day. The Joyce Kilmer American Legion Post 25, along with the Ladies Auxiliary and Sons…

  • E.B. officer honored for record of combating drunken driving

    East Brunswick Patrolman Frank Sutter with wife Kaelyn and daughter Layla. EAST BRUNSWICK — The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders last week recognized township Patrolman Frank Sutter for his efforts in DWI enforcement. In April, Sutter, who made 63 DWI arrests last year, received the 2011 DWI Top Gun Award from the state Department…

  • Veterans to be honored at events Sunday, Monday

    Parades, services abound in Middlesex County E ast Brunswick’s annual Memorial Day observance will be held on Sunday in Veterans Park on the grounds of the East Brunswick Municipal Complex, Jean Walling Civic Center Drive. The event, open to the public and honoring the men and women who lost their lives defending the country, will…