Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Monroe’s Applegarth to close for one year
Asbestos removal, renovations to be completed by June 2012 BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The Monroe Township Board of Education will keep the Applegarth Middle School shuttered for one year while it undergoes asbestos abatement and renovation projects. Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Hamilton explained the decision to parents during a special meeting held at Applegarth…
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NJ vets’ outreach program enhanced
New Jersey political leaders have been boosting efforts to strengthen treatment resources offered to returning veterans. The fruits of their labor are already ripening, most visibly within the New Jersey Vet2Vet outreach program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Piscataway. “One of UMDNJ’s true successes as an academic health…
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Museum celebrates water as art world inspiration
Water is the subject and title of a far-reaching exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this fall. Ranging from a 17th-century Chinese landscape to Bill Viola’s 2005 visceral video work, “Ablutions,” works on display are drawn from the museum’s own collections of French, American, Russian and SovietNonconformist art,…
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Firefighters throw surprise party for esteemed member
George Guise, who joined Milltown dept. in 1950, is thanked for ‘invaluable’ service BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer George Guise (r) with Sam Carasso have served a combined total of 112 years with the fire department, George with 60 years and Sam with 52. MILLTOWN — George “Grandpa” Guise is the oldest and longest-serving member…
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$500K fed grant to fund local flood plain study
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is conducting a study to determine the impact of flooding on seven towns in southern Middlesex County and ways to mitigate it. The affected towns are East Brunswick, Old Bridge, Helmetta, Jamesburg, Monroe, Spotswood and South River. The study, funded through a $500,000 grant obtained with the help of…
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Milltown Legion marks Veterans Day by retiring American flags
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Many stood around a bright fire last week as unserviceable American flags were properly retired at the American Legion Joyce Kilmer Post 25. The Milltown post has been collecting flags for 13 years, and each Veterans Day its members properly dispose of the flags in a large fire…
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Lakeview’s careful restoration proceeds
Basement required concrete slab to prevent walls from caving in BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The first phase of a multiyear restoration project aimed at returning the Lakeview mansion in Jamesburg to its former splendor is wrapping up. Shuttered for nearly two years due to a number of structural deficiencies that caused portions of the…
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Veterans Day
U.S. Army Spc. Alexandre Basulto, who is stationed with the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan, came to the East Brunswick Chabad Chai Central After School Program to visit with the children for Veterans Day Nov. 11. Basulto spoke about his experiences in the armed forces and the importance of defending the country’s freedom. He also…
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Commercial rezoning raises ire in Monroe
Master plan subcommittee reviewing its recommendation for vacant parcel BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Acontroversial proposal to rezone land at Schoolhouse Road and Buckelew Avenue in Monroe may be on its last legs. The proposal, which calls for two parcels of land adjacent to the intersection to be rezoned from R-20 residential to NC neighborhood…
