Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • E.B. board OKs school budget for 2012-13

    Programs to be expanded under budget that carries average $99 tax increase BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Board of Education has unanimously approved a $131 million budget for the 2012-13 school year, when residents will see a tax rate increase of approximately 10 cents per $100 of assessed value. “This school…

  • E.B. board set to hear Golden Triangle plan

    First phase calls for ‘discount superstore’ at Route 18 site BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Planning Board is set to hear Toll Brothers’application for the first step in redeveloping the Golden Triangle site, on April 4. “It’s been a long time coming,” Mayor David Stahl said of the redevelopment effort, which…

  • Milltown board keeping tax levy flat for 2012-13

    BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MILLTOWN — The Board of Education’s preliminary budget for the 2012-13 school year would increase staffing levels while holding the school tax rate flat. The $14.3 million budget, if adopted, would be supported by a $12.4 million tax levy, the same amount collected to support the current school year’s $13.6…

  • EBHS’s Mangino honored as teacher, role model

    Physical education instructor named to Magic 98.3’s list of ‘Teachers Who Make Magic’ BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer Debbie Mangino EAST BRUNSWICK — East Brunswick High School physical education teacher Debbie Mangino was honored earlier this month when she was named a member of Magic 98.3’s “Teachers Who Make Magic” class of 2012. Mangino, an…

  • Spotswood approves purchase of wireless water meter system

    BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The Borough Council approved a $1.3 million project Monday that will upgrade all of the water meters in the municipality. The current meters, which have been giving incorrect readings that result in incorrect water bills, will be replaced by new wireless devices that can be read from a…

  • Board approves 13-home development off O.B. Tpke.

    BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township Planning Board voted last week to approve a 13-home subdivision between May Road and Old Bridge Turnpike, next to Chittick Elementary School. Set on 8.7 acres, the Horizons at Toto Farmwill be a 14-lot subdivision with 13 single family dwellings and a lot dedicated to…

  • Gala dedicated to raising funds for medical scholarships

    UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Foundation of UMDNJ will host their annual Student Scholarship Gala, welcoming alumni and friends to celebrate and raise funds in support of medical education, on April 21 at The Heldrich in New Brunswick. Last year’s inaugural gala raised more than $205,000 in support of Robert Wood Johnson Medical…

  • Controlled burn

    The N.J. Forest Fire Service, in cooperation with the Middlesex County Office of Parks and Recreation, control burned 17 acres in the Pine Barrens of the county’s Jamesburg Park Conservation Area on March 15. Control-burning in the early part of the year removes the ground layer of vegetative litter and the shrub layer, limiting the…

  • Milltown Green Team promotes safe walking, biking to school

    MILLTOWN — The borough Environmental Commission’s Green Team wants to make sure children in town are able to walk or ride their bicycles to school safely. The Green Team announced Monday it is working on a “Safe Routes to School” project, funded by Sustainable Jersey and in cooperation with Milltown Public Schools. The purpose of…