Category: Sentinel-EBS News

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Parents of children who will attend a different school under the Monroe Board of Education’s redistricting plan will receive a letter from their new school principal after April 24. Interim Superintendent of Schools Dennis Ventrello said the redistricting plan is necessary to make use of empty classrooms in some…

By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Harpo Marx dines with Michael Colby’s grandparents, Ben and Mary Bodne, who owned the Algonquin Hotel. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL COLBY One might say Michael Elihu Colby is the real-life counterpart of Eloise, the fictional children’s book character who lived at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Though the Metuchen resident and…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — The $16.5 million municipal budget adopted by the Borough Councilincludesa3percentincreasein municipal taxes for 2015. Under the budget adopted at the April 13 council meeting, the owner of a home assessed at the borough average of $81,994 would pay $1,602 in municipal taxes this year — a…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer South Brunswick resident Sherry Rubel has a vision to help empower homeless citizens in a tight-knit community of tiny homes. After photographing people living in Lakewood’s since-disbanded Tent City — a community of the homeless living in tents and shacks in a wooded area — Rubel has focused her…

By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The next Martin Scorsese might be living in East Brunswick. The East Brunswick Public Library is accepting film submissions for its second annual Record.Play Film Competition and Festival, and all East Brunswick residents are encouraged to submit entries. Film submissions will be accepted in three categories: youth…

By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Rooms at the Cornelius Low House/Middlesex County Museum have been decorated to resemble traditional diner settings with food, tables and jukeboxes. JEREMY GROSSMAN/STAFF New Jersey diners represent more than hamburgers and French fries; they are emblematic of an entire history and mythology of the state, according to historian Michael C.…

By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer A public health advocate has agreed to add his views to the debate over whether fluoride should be removed from East Brunswick’s water supply. Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network — an international coalition that maintains fluoride has negative health effects — was invited to speak at a…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Volunteers prepare floating wetlands islands for installation. Native wetlands plants are secured into a “mattress” made of recycled plastics, which is then placed into a lake or pond. The plants’ roots grow through the recycled bed and help to improve water quality by removing sediment and excess nutrients. PHOTO…

By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — A decrease in the net assessed valuation of properties, combined with rising health and pension costs, will contribute to an increase in municipal taxes for the borough in 2015. The borough’s nearly $10 million budget for 2015 was unanimously approved at an April 8 meeting of the…