Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • E.B. teenager honors friend’s memory with lemonade stand

    EAST BRUNSWICK — In an effort to raise funds for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), which benefits children with cancer and the hospitals that help them, Rebekah Makin will host her third annual lemonade stand on June 12. The Churchill Junior High School students will hold the fundraiser at 491 Manalapan Road, Spotswood, in front…

  • Theresa Maligranda does the limbo during the third annual Race for Education fundraiser

    Theresa Maligranda does the limbo during the third annual Race for Education fundraiser at St. Bartholomew’s School in East Brunswick May 19. Students walked or jogged a quarter-mile area outside the school for a one-hour period. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Deals with unions avoid further layoffs in E. Bruns.

    Board comes to undisclosed terms with its two major employee associations BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The East Brunswick Board of Education will be able to comply with the $2.5 million cut ordered by the Township Council without sacrificing more jobs. The school board voted on its adjusted 2010-11 budget during a May 27 meeting…

  • Milltown council hopes to bring down tax hike

    Revenue losses have officials scrambling to reduce increase in municipal tax rate BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The Milltown Borough Council introduced a $7.7 million budget last week that would raise municipal taxes by $278 on the average home. “We are continuing to work on various ways to bring in more revenue. … This is…

  • Monroe ramps up Channel 28, municipal, school webcasts

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — The township’s Channel 28 is slowly coming into its own. “It’s still in its infancy,” Business AdministratorWayne Hamilton said. The station has been up and running since early this year. Residents have been able to watch the last two regular Township Council meetings, both on Comcast Channel…

  • Two photographers captured social landscape, and soul

    Works of Winogrand, Clark on display at Zimmerli Garry Winogrand and Larry Clark began redefining photography in the 1960s, documenting the American social landscape in out-of-the-ordinary black-and-white photographs of people engaged in ordinary activities. A Garry Winogrand photograph in New York City, from the series, “Women Are Better Than Men, Not Only Have They Survived,…

  • County announces road resurfacing projects

    Middlesex County became one of the first counties in the state to put federal stimulus funds to work when the Board of Chosen Freeholders voted May 11 to approve a contract to mill and resurface 17 county roads. The work will begin this summer and include the installation or improvement of 1,000 ramps at intersections…

  • Memorial Day Parade

    Girl Scouts from Monroe are part of a long line of marchers during the 127th edition of the Jamesburg-Monroe-Helmetta Memorial Day Parade in Jamesburg on May 31.

  • Four new cops hired after stringent selection process

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — Mayor Richard Pucci recently swore in four new police officers to help replace a number of others who are retiring. “It’s certainly wonderful to have you in our family in Monroe Township,” Pucci told the officers. “It’s a very special community. It was a very difficult process…