Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Middlesex, Monmouth to share juvenile center

    Move expected to save tax dollars in both counties Officials in Middlesex and Monmouth counties have announced an agreement to share youth detention services in hopes of saving taxpayers in each county more than $20 million over the next 10 years. The Monmouth County juvenile facility in Freehold Township will be closed, and all juveniles…

  • E.B. will walk down memory lane Sunday

    Program kicks off series of celebrations as township turns 150 BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Stock up on candles and leave room for cake. East Brunswick is celebrating its well-over-the-hill 150th birthday. In honor of the milestone, several events are planned throughout the next few months, but the festivities will kick off with music, reminiscence…

  • South County Day Care

    Adrienne Craparotta, 4, of Monroe, plays darts during the South County Day Care Center’s Winter Festival, held Feb. 12 in Ericson Hall at St. George’s Church, Helmetta. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Union leader lashes out over axing of firefighters

    Animosity between union and District 1 Board of Fire Commissioners heats up BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer To say the president of the local union for paid firefighters in Monroe is angry over the District 1 Board of Fire Commissioners’ Feb. 17 decision to lay off two career men would be an understatement. “We…

  • Remembering

    Veteran Chuck Peins looks over pictures on display at the Spotswood American Legion Post 253 on Feb. 7, when the post held a luncheon for residents of the Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park, Edison. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Craig Christie of Jamesburg

    Craig Christie of Jamesburg shovels snow from his driveway on Hillside Avenue Feb. 11 after last week’s heavy snowfall. A tree sits snapped in half behind him on the front yard. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Sabbath-friendly theater group forms in Monroe

    Resident eager to engage local audience with Bimah Players BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Myra Cohen Klenicki had often wanted to put her theatrical skills to good use in a community theater group. But Klenicki, who is Jewish, couldn’t perform on the Sabbath, which runs from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. “My husband was…

  • Nazi link prompts call for street name change

    Pétain, who was considered a hero in WWI, worked with Hitler during WWII BY KATHY CHANG Milltown officials are looking into a local teenager’s request that they change the name of a borough road due to the association of its namesake with the Nazis. Petain Avenue, the student wrote, is named for Philippe Pétain, who…

  • American Legion Post 253

    Volunteers Debbie Habib and Karen Prenderville serve dessert to veterans Chuck Peins (l-r), Don Desco and Roy Glenn on Feb. 7, when the Spotswood American Legion Post 253 organized a luncheon for residents of the Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park, Edison. SCOTT FRIEDMAN