Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • E.B. native’s passion for biodiversity conservation earns distinction

    Ryan Kleinert EAST BRUNSWICK — Ryan Kleinert took an unusual route from high school to college, spending six years living alone in the wilderness of the southern Appalachian and Adirondack mountains before starting work on a degree in wildlife biology and conservation . That time spent immersing himself in the natural environment has paid off.…

  • Monroe votes to adopt $51.8 million budget

    Tax appeals, decreased surplus, new positions lead to tax hike BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — The Township Council voted unanimously Monday night to adopt a 2012 municipal budget that includes a $393 tax increase on the average home. The vote for the $51.8 million package followed a public hearing on several budget amendments…

  • Jamesburg woman named Labor Leader of the Year

    BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer JAMESBURG — Resident Franceline Ehret began her career with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority as a toll collector. That career, which included nearly 30 years of toll collecting and later involvement with the union representing the authority’s workers, culminated in Ehret’s being named Labor Leader of the Year at the…

  • Doing right by what’s left

    East Brunswick man’s Special E business rescues items leftover from special events BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Robert Kalt makes a delivery to Sunrise Senior Living in East Brunswick. EAST BRUNSWICK — A large plastic bin full of orchids sat on the patio table in Robert Kalt’s backyard. The flowers, salvaged from centerpieces at a…

  • Church seeks to save ‘soles’

    JAMESBURG — Monroe Community Church wants people to do some ‘sole’ searching for their second shoe collection benefiting CUMAC ECHO of Paterson. The church, located at the Jamesburg Senior Center, 139 Stevens Ave., Jamesburg, will be a weekend collection site throughout May. Collection hours on Saturdays are 3-5 p.m., and Sunday hours are 9 a.m.…

  • County residents encouraged to practice ‘grasscycling’

    A s the height of the mowing season approaches in May and June, the Middlesex County Improvement Authority’s (MCIA) Recycling Division has launched its annual campaign to inform residents about the benefits of “grasscycling.” Grasscycling is the practice of leaving short grass clippings on the lawn rather than bagging and dragging them to the curb.…

  • Foundation commits funds to enhance pediatric cancer research

    Sherrie and Michael Wells offer $100,000 to CINJ in honor of their late son, Brady BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Sherrie and Michael Wells fully understand the need to support pediatric cancer research. Their son, Brady Michael, died in July 2010, just three weeks shy of his second birthday, from acute undifferentiated leukemia.…

  • O.B. man to join 150th anniversary celebration of military bugle call

    Bugles Across America to be part of mass performance of taps at Arlington Nat’l Cemetery BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Bruce Walker of Old Bridge, a member of Bugles Across America, performs taps during the funeral for U.S. Air Force Maj. Bruce Edward Lawrence of Phillipsburg in September. KEVIN MINGORA/THE MORNING CALL OLD BRIDGE —…

  • The East meets the West in a Spotswood classroom

    Students at Immaculate Conception School chat with Malaysian students via Skype. SPOTSWOOD — While most pen pals write each other for years before ever meeting face to face, third-grade students at Immaculate Conception School are going about that process in reverse. During last week’s open house, 28 students from Nancy Sarnak’s class chatted with Malaysian students via…