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…

  • Three brothers lead full lives, despite Tourette’s

    Family finds ways to cope with a series of challenges BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer There’s a reason Colin Lang likes to keep his hair longer than most boys these days. Those neatly cut locks aren’t just a fashion statement. Colin (l), 14, and Jack Lang, 12, play the guitar and banjo in the…

  • East Brunswick board files motion to stop charter school

    Dispute centers on whether first-year school has met its required enrollment BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Less than a month before students are scheduled to file into the classrooms of the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, the East Brunswick Board of Education has initiated litigation aimed at preventing it from opening. The school board filed…

  • Tourette’s, an often misunderstood, maligned neurobiological disorder

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Mention Tourette’s syndrome to most people, and they will conjure up an image of a person barking out swear words or making strange noises. But the percentage of Tourette’s patients with coprolalia, a symptom involving involuntary obscene or inappropriate utterances, is less than 15 percent, according to the Tourette…

  • Fed’l funds will help bring back teachers

    Holt: Delays may result in some being hired during school year BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — An extra $268 million will soon be appropriated to New Jersey public schools, but most local schoolteachers and officials have been unaware of just how the newfound funding will help. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12th District) visited…

  • Police: Monroe teen charged in shooting of local man, 19

    MONROE — Police have charged a 17- year-old juvenile with attempted murder after he allegedly fired a gun and injured a township man. Police said the shooting occurred in the early hours of Aug. 14 on Jeremy Court, off Spotswood Englishtown Road. Officers were dispatched there at 2:49 a.m. on a report of a large…

  • Funeral home family recognized for altruism

    Owners met as volunteers for the E.B. Rescue Squad BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Mortuary employees must possess a considerable amount of empathy and goodwill in order to formidably handle death and grief on a daily basis. With such respect for humanity, it’s not surprising that many of those in the funeral…

  • So. River native decorated after three combat tours

    Travis Platt recently returned home from Afghanistan BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Sgt. First Class Travis C. Platt SOUTH RIVER — After three tours overseas, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, Sgt. First Class Travis C. Platt is pleased to continue his successful career with the U.S. Army, albeit an unplanned one. “I like…

  • Volunteers beautify area near pond in Milltown

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — Eugene Guerra envisions a once-blighted area near the Mill Pond to become a butterfly haven. “The whole space was overgrown,” said Guerra, chairman of the borough’s Shade Tree Commission. “The place was a mess with a lot of garbage; we even pulled out an old swing set that…