Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Stahl: Attrition, sacrifices to result from loss of aid

    Township, like school district, is being forced to absorb sizable reduction in state aid BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Township officials have begun reworking the tentative 2010 municipal budget in anticipation of a substantial state aid reduction. As with the township’s school district, the state aid loss is expected to impact the…

  • Drozd a finalist for nursing award

    SPOTSWOOD — Borough Councilwoman Marge Drozd, a registered nurse at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, has been named a regional finalist in the 2010 Nursing Spectrum Excellence Awards. Drozd, manager of Saint Peter’s CommunityMobile Health Services, is among five nurses in each of six categories to be named a finalist in the greater…

  • NJ Transit sets hearing on bus lines

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer NJ Transit will hold a public meeting Saturday in East Brunswick where residents will be able to air their concerns regarding proposed bus route eliminations and fare increases. State Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) has called on Gov. Chris Christie and NJ Transit to reconsider the proposed bus route eliminations, which…

  • Monroe dist. reeling from massive state aid cut

    Layoffs, program cuts in works, superintendent says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Stunned would be an appropriate word to describe the reaction of Monroe Township Schools Superintendent Kenneth R. Hamilton to Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address last week.   Hamilton was crunching numbers to try to deal with the district’s $4.4 million cut in…

  • E.B. school tab calls for numerous layoffs

    2010-11 budget would also increase tax rate by 3% BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Hundreds of teachers, administrators and staff members turned out Monday to learn of extensive cuts being proposed by the East Brunswick Board of Education. School Business Administrator Bernardo Giuliani said at the meeting that the board is facing an $8.4 million…

  • Cub Scout Pack 4

    Cidalia Pisco places another bag of clothing on the pile of donations collected by members of Cub Scout Pack 4 of South River. The Scouts coordinated a months-long drive for slightly used clothing and, after packing the items at the South River Primary School Saturday, they delivered the items to Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick.…

  • Cop helps woman deliver baby in van

    EAST BRUNSWICK — A township police officer helped deliver a baby in the back of a minivan March 20. Patrolman Dan Unkel responded to the parking lot of the Shell gas station located at 1010 Route 18 in reference to a call about a woman about to have a baby at 11:35 p.m. March 20.…

  • New Hooters restaurant draws concerns in E.B.

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Hooters recently celebrated its grand opening in the township, but some residents are none too pleased with the restaurant’s arrival. The franchise has been the subject of much derision among members of the community since it was first proposed in East Brunswick five years ago in a…

  • Two tracts being considered for open space preservation

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — The goal is 50 percent green. That’s how much open space local and county officials hope to eventually preserve in the 43.8-square-mile municipality. They are slowly working toward that goal, parcel by parcel, tract by tract. “We are almost interchangeable,” township Environmental Protection Manager John Riggs said…