Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Monroe adopts school budget with busing cuts
Tax levy within 2 percent cap, but school taxes to rise $61 BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — The owner of the averageassessed home will pay $61 more in school taxes based on a $106.5 million budget adopted by the Board of Education for the 2012-13 school year. The budget, unanimously approved following a…
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Forum touts consolidation among N.J. municipalities
Citizens and elected officials learned how they can begin consolidation efforts in their communities during the recent forum in East Brunswick. EAST BRUNSWICK — Citizens and elected officials from all over the state attended a forum here on March 28 to discuss ways to make local government more efficient through municipal consolidation. The event updated…
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Pastor gets PBA award for pursuit of suspect
BY JASON COHEN Correspondent MILLTOWN — For his bravery and efforts as a good Samaritan, borough police honored the Rev. Richard Weyer with the Citizen Valor Award during the March 26 Borough Council meeting. On Jan. 16, Weyer, pastor at St. Paul’s United Church, Main Street, apprehended a man police described as a prominent graffiti…
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Fourth-grade students at Monroe’s Woodland School and their parents recently came out for two Family Science Nights, participating in hands-on science activities. In the first, families had to build 4-foot structures using wooden dowels and rubber bands, without any verbal communication. For the second, the families blew bubbles on tables and graphed the diameters, then…
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Residents organize protest of proposed firehouse site
Coalition forms, launches website to fight South River’s purchase of Elks location BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — Main Street area residents flooded the Borough Council chambers March 26 to protest efforts to purchase the Elks site for use as a new firehouse. The residents have formed a group called the Coalition of Concerned…
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E.B. man sentenced to 3 years for child pornography possession
A n East Brunswick man was sentenced last week to three years in prison for storing on his home computer a collection of images of children being sexually abused, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Joseph R. Buckelew III, 20, previously pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Buckelew entered his guilty…
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Reynolds to retire after 12 years as administrator
Will stay on as assistant while successor gets started BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer JAMESBURG — The Board of Education has formally accepted the resignation of its longtime business administrator, Thomas Reynolds, and appointed his successor. Reynolds, who has served as adminis- trator and board secretary in Jamesburg for 12 years, will stay on as…
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Hindu community breaks ground on Rt. 516 temple
Facility on 18.5 acres will fulfill longtime dream of Old Bridge resident BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Local and state officials joined with nearly 500 congregants to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple on Route 516 in Old Bridge last Sunday. Temple founder and chairman Mangal Gupta has lived in the…
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Monroe residents face nearly $400 tax hike
Tax appeal refunds of $11.4M are major factor in budget gap BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer The Monroe Township Council has introduced a 2012 municipal budget that, if adopted, would result in a $393 tax hike on the average residence. The $51.8 million budget absorbs a large volume of residential and commercial tax appeals, which…
