Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Library to benefit from sale of wedding gowns
Fifty dresses were donated by library patron and a local business BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Above: Models get set to film a commercial displaying the wedding dresses that were donated recently to the East Brunswick Public Library. The 35 dresses will be auctioned to benefit the Friends of the Library, a nonprofit group that…
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The works of Maurice Sendak ‘In a Nutshell’
BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer The traveling exhibit, titled “In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” has brought the works of this legendary author and illustrator to the Monroe Township library. The works will be on display until Aug. 19. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff MONROE — Perhaps best known for his monstrous yet…
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E.B. students uncover DNA mysteries at RU
Two seniors taking part in summer seminar at Waksman Institute of Microbiology BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Brinda Banerji and Adam Horowitz get to work at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University. EAST BRUNSWICK — For two East Brunswick High School seniors, school isn’t out for the summer. While many of their classmates…
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Singers follow Rundgren tour by forming new trio
Heartsville to perform at E.B.’s Unitarian Society BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer The members of Heartsville are Dee Dee Miles (l-r), Matt Holley and Kimberly Andersen. EAST BRUNSWICK — Music and religion are a big part of Kimberly Andersen’s life, so perhaps it’s only appropriate that her band make its official debut at a house…
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Monroe’s Mattos takes over as U.S. marshal for New Jersey
MONROE — Township resident Juan Mattos Jr. has been sworn in as the U.S. marshal for New Jersey. U.S. Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez (both D-N.J.) issued a statement congratulating Juan Mattos Jr. With New Jersey’s U.S. Marshal Office under the leadership of an acting marshal since August 2010, Mattos, they said, will…
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Rain, rain, don’t go away
Residents make rain barrels to help recycle water BY KELLY CRAIG Correspondent Lisa Veliath-Houston (l) of Piscataway and Dale Duchai work together to build a rain barrel during a workshop at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park on July 14. LAUREN CASSELBERRY SOUTH BRUNSWICK — “We quickly filled the…
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Detecting the weather
South River native knows when a storm is brewing BY ELLEN MONTEMARANO Staff Writer Thomas Else South River native Thomas Else likes to play detective and has been an expert witness in trials in New Jersey and neighboring states. But Else is not a police officer or even a private investigator, he is a meteorologist.…
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Papi retires after 8 years as county health officer
David A. Papi, director and health officer of the Middlesex County Public Health Department, has retired after more than 40 years with the department. Papi began his career with the health department as an inspector trainee, rising through the ranks as a sanitary inspector, senior inspector, principal inspector, chief inspector, deputy director and, finally, director…
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Milltown council holds line on municipal taxes
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Municipal taxes will remain stable this year, and officials noted that they were able to set aside more surplus funding for the future and use only a limited amount of electric surplus. Councilman Robert Owens, who led the council’s Finance Committee, said it is noteworthy that the borough…
