Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Family sets yard sale to give back to RWJ
Helmetta boy, 4, doing well after treatment for leukemia BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer After being diagnosed with leukemia, Jason D’Angelo, 4, of Helmetta, received two bone marrow transplants thanks to his sister, Mya, who served as the donor. HELMETTA — The past year has been a difficult one for the D’Angelo family, to say…
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Shuttle driver charged in theft
ASayreville man who drove a shuttle bus for Middlesex County has been charged with third-degree theft for allegedly stealing cash from the suggested fare box on the bus. Mark B. Wolfthal, 50, of the borough’s Parlin section, was charged Sept. 24 on allegations he took at least $80 from the box, according to a press…
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So. River parents upset over teacher resignation
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — A teacher’s resignation and school safety both became topics of discussion at a Board of Education meeting last week. More than a dozen parents and students told the board on Sept. 24 that they wanted German language teacher Antje Weymann, who has been with the school district…
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Coney Island photographs featured in new exhibit
Neil O. Lawner will speak Sunday at the Academy of Music on Main Street. SPOTSWOOD — A new exhibit at the Academy of Music on Main Street features an artist’s colorful, whimsical photographs of Coney Island. The works are that of Neil O. Lawner, a former East Brunswick orthodontist who is now a college professor.…
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Parents charged with leaving kids in car while in restaurant
EAST BRUNSWICK — A New York couple was arrested on charges of child abandonment after police were called to a Route 18 shopping center about children trapped in a car. A woman called the police shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday to report that two small children were locked in a motor vehicle at the Mid-…
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Driver, 88, becomes third victim of accident on Cranbury Road
EAST BRUNSWICK — The driver of a vehicle that police said struck a garbage truck on Cranbury Road passed away four days later.Raymond L. Brightman, 88, of Monroe, died at 6:35 p.m. Sept. 21 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, police said. Brightman was driving a silver 2008 Lincoln MKZ that crashed…
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Merged district working on its new arrangement
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Busing and other issues related to the consolidation of the Helmetta and Spotswood school districts have been squared away, while others, including the important question of funding, remain unresolved. Spotswood Board of Education President Richard O’Brien said district officials have been working to determine how finances will be…
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Living history
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Left: Soldiers representing the Union’s 7th New Jersey Infantry practice their march during the Civil War Living History Weekend held last weekend in Monroe, featuring re-enactors and demonstrations. Right: The “Union camp” comes to life Saturday morning at the Dey Farm Historic Site on Federal Road.
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Re-enactors march past spectators at the Dey Farm Historic Site on Federal Road in Monroe Saturday during the Civil War Living History Weekend. The 2nd New Jersey Brigade and the Monroe Township Historic Preservation Commission sponsored the event, reportedly the first of its kind in New Jersey.
