Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • 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-…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Memorial School vote goes before residents

    New school would be built on site of fire-ravaged facility BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer East Brunswick residents will vote next week on a $17.96 million bond referendum for the construction of a new Memorial Elementary School. FILE PHOTO A fire seriously damaged East Brunswick Memorial School in 2008. A Sept. 29 referendum will ask…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN M.J. Clacko, of Monroe, checks out the interior of this 1957 Chevy BelAir sedan during Jamesburg Fall Festival on Railroad Avenue on Sept. 20.

  • Charter school awaits decision from state

    E.B. board opposes school due to budget, other concerns BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer The state Department of Education is scheduled to render a decision next week on a charter school application that is being opposed by East Brunswick’s Board of Education. The Hatikvah International Academy Charter School would use a curriculum developed by the…

  • Two Monroe women killed in crash with garbage truck

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Two residents of Monroe were killed when the vehicle in which they were passengers collided with a garbage truck on Cranbury Road Sept. 17. Gloria Bagatelle, 82, and Miran Staloff, 85, were traveling in a vehicle driven by Raymond L. Brightman, 88, also of Monroe, according to East Brunswick police. The accident…

  • Woman seeks help giving troops a belated welcome

    Mom hopes to send soldiers on dinner cruise around NYC BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent EAST BRUNSWICK — When the men and women of the 50th Chemical Company of the New Jersey Army National Guard returned to the Garden State in June after 14 months in Iraq, there were no waving flags, no marching bands…