Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Jamesburg tree lighting kicks off holiday season

    JAMESBURG — The holiday season may be under way, but it never officially begins in this borough until the annual tree lighting at Veterans Park. The ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in the park, located behind Jamesburg Hardware, between East Railroad and West Railroad avenues. Santa Claus will arrive on a…

  • Scout spruces up area in front of his former school in Monroe

    Michael Baumann works on the landscaping in front of the Woodland Elementary School in Monroe Nov. 21. For his Eagle Scout project, Baumann led a team of Boy Scouts from Troop 3 of Monroe in planting shrubs, installing a paver walkway and putting in benches in the area of the flagpole. SCOTT FRIEDMAN MONROE —…

  • Economy has club’s membership booming

    Breakfast Club holds monthly networking meetings in E.B. BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Breakfast Club co-founders Frank Kovacs (l-r) and Paul DeSantis work with website administrator Frank Perrone and Alex Freund, who handles guest speaker services. EAST BRUNSWICK — As the economy continues to struggle, the Breakfast Club, a job-networking group, has seen its membership…

  • Fundraisers

    Dec. 3 • Holiday Shoppe, sponsored by the St. Bart’s Buffalos organization, to benefit St. Bart’s Buffalos JPW (Junior PeeWee) Cheer Team, 7-9:30 p.m., at the Milltown Firehouse, South Main St. Cash for Gold — individuals offered cash for unwanted gold, silver, stones, coins. Vendors offering handbags, chocolates, jewelry, makeup, more. Proceeds help the cheer…

  • St. Bart’s Junior Pee Wees to compete for nat’l title

    EAST BRUNSWICK — The St. Bart’s Buffalos Junior Pee Wee cheerleaders are going to Walt Disney World. The squad will compete for a national title this month after winning the 2009 Pop Warner Eastern Region Championship on Nov. 21 in the Small Novice division at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton. This marks the…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rachel Fernandez, 10, puts the finishing touches on her “Dreidel Man” creation during the Nov. 22 Maccabee Mayhem celebration at Temple B’nai Shalom in East Brunswick. The pre-Hanukkah event featured crafts, games, music, discussion, storytelling, dancing and latke making. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Road, water line work on tap in East Brunswick

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Thanks to some generosity from the state, as well as the sluggish economy, the township will be able to improve even more roads in the year ahead. The township will receive a $340,000 grant from the state Department of Transportation in order to reconstruct Church Lane. The…

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    Jillian Regis of Monroe participates in the recent “Beauty and the Beach Run,” held along the Long Branch oceanfront in Monmouth County. The event benefited the Aslan Youth Ministries in Red Bank. CHRIS KELLY staff

  • Jamesburg officials look at master plan

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer JAMESBURG — Borough officials are reexamining its master plan with hopes of improving it to spur the type of development they believe is needed. Councilman John Longo, who has been revisiting the plan as a member of the Land Use Board, said one goal is to stop the growth of…