Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Shelter keeps brisk pace in animal adoptions

    Volunteers help employees tend to more than 100 cats and dogs currently lodged BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer A dog stretches its paw out to reach an East Brunswick Girl Scout visiting the Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter on March 30. A t 4 p.m. on a Friday, the Helmetta RegionalAnimal Shelter is surprisingly busy. Kids…

  • County: Skunk picked up in Helmetta tests positive for rabies

    HELMETTA — A skunk, found in the vicinity of John Street and Railroad Avenue last week, tested positive for rabies. The Middlesex County Office of Health Services said this was the first rabid animal reported in Middlesex County in 2012. On March 23, the Helmetta animal control officer responded to a report that a resident’s…

  • E.B. mayor proposes budget with tax cut

    Stahl: Key has been to maintain level of services while reducing expenses BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Mayor David Stahl has presented a tentative $55.8 million operating budget for 2012 that would reduce municipal taxes by 3.3 percent without cutting services for residents. The spending plan, which Stahl delivered to the Township…

  • South River school tab hikes tax levy 2 percent

    Budget restores full-day kindergarten, adds two special education teachers, counselor BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — The Board of Education has voted unanimously to adopt a school budget that carries an average tax increase of $67. School Business Administrator Kenneth Kokoszka presented the $26.7 million budget for 2012-13 at the board’s March 22 meeting.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sayreville teens set stage for an edgy ‘Jekyll & Hyde’

    Some students in cast double as actors, student-directors BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Dennis Quinlan, Mike Ferlita and Tyler Herrick rehearse a scene as Sir Danvers Carew, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Simon Stride, respectively, for the Sayreville War Memorial High School production of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” GREG HOLMES SAYREVILLE — Michael Piccuirro likes…