Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Council honors Monroe youths for achievement

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MONROE — A group of young athletes wearing their purple team shirts filled the front rows for the Oct. 5 Township Council meeting. The boys, otherwise known as the Monroe Dirty Birds, were there to receive plaques as the 2009 Cal Ripken 10-and- Under Mid-Atlantic Region champions. Monroe Township Baseball…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Gabriela Alvarez, 10, of East Brunswick, dressed as a hippie for the seventh annual Daisy Walk in the Park and Halloween Carnival on Sunday at Bicentennial Park, on Hardenburg Lane in East Brunswick.

  • Police: Suspects in stolen car fled cops by jumping into river

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — Two men were arrested last week after they jumped into the South River while allegedly fleeing from police. Tarik Jackson, 18, of New Brunswick, and Jamil Anthony, 22, of Newark, were charged at 8:44 p.m. Oct. 18 with receiving stolen property and being in possession of stolen…

  • Monroe Township Council race

    Voters will select members of the Township Council representing each of the three wards on Nov. 3. Incumbent Councilwoman Joanne Connolly, who served since 1992 as the Ward 3 representative, did not file for re-election. What proposals would you like to support if elected/ re-elected? WARD 1 Hoover: Monroe Township has at least 17 paid…

  • Police: Old Bridge man ran prostitution service

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Police arrested an Old Bridge man last week on charges that he was running a prostitution ring and that he threatened to shoot three of the alleged prostitutes. Anthony V. Lucciola, 29, was arrested at 7:35 a.m. Oct. 21 after police received a 911 call about a woman being threatened with a…

  • South River Borough Council race

    At stake: Two three-year Borough Council terms What do you feel is the top issue that the borough faces? Dr. Tom DeBari (D) DeBari, 57, has a wife, Linda, and two daughters, ages 16 and 23. A chiropractic physician, DeBari has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree…

  • Spotswood sets sights on improving lake area

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The borough is planning improvements to the dock and surrounding area at DeVoe Lake. According to Councilwoman Marge Drozd, the borough plans to build a new walkway along the shore of DeVoe Lake to replace a makeshift walkway that she said is “not pedestrian friendly.” Council President Curtis…

  • State awards Monroe money for sidewalk

    MONROE — The township will receive a $190,000 grant from the state Department of Transportation to construct a sidewalk extension on Perrineville Road. The sidewalk will be constructed on the easterly side of Perrineville Road between the current Monroe Township High School building and the U.S. Postal Service post office, where no sidewalk currently exists.…

  • Middlesex College to start construction on Crabiel Hall

    Building named after late freeholder director to be completed by early 2011 BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer In the 1980s, Dorothy Power served on the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders with the late David B. Crabiel and got to know him very well over the years. “He had a huge interest in so many things…