Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Federal dollars to fund rail study

    The so-called MOM line railroad proposal is not dead yet. U.S. senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded NJ Transit $534,375 for the development of an alternatives analysis and draft environmental impact statement (AA/DEIS) for the Monmouth Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) passenger rail project. According…

  • Back to the drawing board

    Above: Hal Katz assists Rae Horwitz with a perspective drawing during an Aug. 3 session of the three-day “Creative Composition” workshop at the Monroe Township Senior Center. Below: Katz explains the basic elements of drawing. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Artist grows his love for art in his backyard

    Art Lee designs mixed-media pieces for his garden gallery BY KERRI McCUNE Correspondent South Brunswick resident Art Lee creates artwork that he displays in a garden gallery at his home. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Art Lee, a local artist who never believed that he had any artistic talent, decided to take a leap of faith 20…

  • Spotswood awards bid for road repair work

    $304,000 project being funded with a state grant BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Several dilapidated roadways in the borough will receive a needed face-lift now that an extensive improvement project is under way. The Borough Council on Aug. 9 awarded a contract to Meco Inc., an asphalt-paving contractor based in Clarksburg, for repair…

  • Monroe Township Recreation Department’s annual Fishing Derby,

    A man gets ready to cast his fishing pole during the Monroe Township Recreation Department’s annual Fishing Derby, held Aug. 10 at Molders Fish Farm off Englishtown Road in Old Bridge. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Golfer from Monroe rescued after getting stuck in mud

    Police officers from Manalapan performed a special rescue operation on Aug. 18 in order to pull a Monroe Township woman out of the mud at the Knob Hill Golf Course, Route 33. Patrolman Kevin Ruditsky, Patrolman Seth Kreizman, Patrolman Pete Chalfin and Police Chief Stuart Brown responded to the golf course at about 10:41 a.m.…

  • Charter school fires back at school district

    Hatikvah says it has enough students; claims school board is making bogus claims BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer While the East Brunswick Board of Education has filed suit to stop the Hatikvah International Academy from opening this summer, the charter school claims the board is using sabotage tactics and making bogus claims. The township school…

  • Tax preparer pleads guilty to scheme to defraud IRS

    SOUTH RIVER — A borough-based tax preparer pleaded guilty Aug. 17 to knowingly preparing fraudulent tax returns in order to defraud the IRS of owed taxes. Regina Santos, the owner and operator of One Stop Agency LLC, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise to charges that she prepared tax returns for clients…

  • Monroe looks to address disparity in fire tax rates

    Some township residents pay nearly twice that of others BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Local officials have gone out to bid for an independent consultant to come up with ways to equalize the fire tax rates in Monroe’s three fire districts. “I live in Greenbriar, in the third district,” council President Gerald W. Tamburro…