Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Milltown police honored for efforts in alleged standoff

    BY JASON COHEN Correspondent MILLTOWN — For many people, the Saturday after Thanksgiving is usually a time to relax after two days of family dinners and activities. For several Milltown police officers, Nov. 26 instead involved what police said was a tense three-hour standoff at a borough residence. During its Dec. 12 meeting, the Borough…

  • Local officials debate bill that would move BOE elections to November

    Politics, voting on the school budget are topics of discussion BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Moving school board elections from April to November has been a long-discussed statewide proposal, with advocates and detractors equally firm on their positions. BillA-4394/S-3148, currently making it through the Legislature, would grant local school boards that option, and the New Jersey…

  • End of an era

    Bradford winds down 14 years of service as Milltown mayor BY JASON COHEN Correspondent Gloria Bradford MILLTOWN — After 14 years as the mayor, Gloria Bradford will wrap up her service to the borough at month’s end. The Dec. 12 meeting of the Borough Council was her last as chief administrator. Bradford, who has lived…

  • Soul Kitchen: Living on a prayer

    Dorothea and Jon Bon Jovi launch community restaurant BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Jon Bon Jovi recently mingled with guests at the opening of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation Soul Kitchen — a community-based endeavor meant to empower and inspire — on Monmouth Street in Red Bank. ERIC SUCAR staff I t all started…

  • $40M secured for military suicide prevention efforts

    E. Brunswick’s Linda Bean says services must be immediately accessible, 24 hours a day BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer The figure, Rep. Rush Holt said, is stunning: Eighteen veterans commit suicide each day. “That’s a daily average that is intolerable,” he said. “We can’t let that continue.” And now, after years of advocacy and the…

  • N.J. managers’ association honors Greater Media reporter

    Chris Zawistowski Just six months into his career as a reporter with Greater Media Newspapers, Chris Zawistowski is already an award-winning journalist. Zawistowski, a resident of Spotswood, was recently presented with the prestigious Press Award from the New Jersey Municipal Management Association, an organization of professional local government administrators and assistants whose goal is to…

  • All aboard for holiday cheer in South Amboy

    BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Joseph Szaro conducts the trolley tour. SOUTH AMBOY — The shouts could be heard all around City Hall. “The trolley is coming! The trolley is coming!” Excited youngsters and adults waited anxiously on an unseasonably warm evening Dec. 15 to take a ride on the inaugural city holiday trolley tour. As…

  • Fundraiser collecting change for YMCA after-school programs

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Shoppers at the J.C. Penney store in the Brunswick Square Mall are invited to turn small change into “pennies from heaven” by rounding up their holiday purchases and donating the difference to Raritan Valley YMCA through Dec. 12. The local YMCA is one of 1,100 afterschool organizations across the country matched with…

  • Black ice causes accidents in E.B.

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Black ice on Ryders Lane was the cause of two accidents, including one involving a police officer, on Dec. 9, police said. The first accident occurred at 7:52 a.m. Stacy Coates, of Milltown, was driving a 1997 Lexus southbound on Ryders Lane near Montclair Court when her vehicle hit black ice, causing…