Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Car strikes pole, tree on Cranbury Road

    EAST BRUNSWICK — A township woman was injured Aug. 11 after a one-car accident on Cranbury Road. Police said Elizaveta Kuznetsoff, 27, had been traveling northbound at a high rate of speed around 10:41 p.m. when she lost control of the vehicle, a 2008 Honda Accord, near Evergreen Boulevard. The vehicle struck the curb on…

  • Two hospitalized after Rt. 18 crash

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in an accident at 1:34 p.m. Aug. 17 on Route 18 south near Naricon Place. According to police, all three vehicles were proceeding south on Route 18 in different lanes. The vehicle in the left lane, a 1995 Infiniti operated by Fady Aziz, 18, of…

  • Debate heats up over use of recycling funds

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The fire department is discontinuing its decades-old scrap metal recycling program, and laying the blame for that on elected officials. In a fundraising letter sent to residents, Spotswood Enterprise Hook & Ladder Co. President Richard Goglia said that after Sept. 1, residents should instead call the mayor’s office…

  • S.R. implements new notification system

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — With the recent implementation of Global Connect’s emergency notification system, borough officials can notify thousands of residents in a split second. The system launched on Aug. 3 with a message to residents about the following night’s National Night Out event. “With this system, we can notify residents…

  • Monroe moving forward with senior center plans

    New round of construction bids expected this month BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MONROE — Work on the long-awaited senior center, slated for a 20-acre parcel at Applegarth and Halsey Reed roads, is expected to soon get off the ground. The township advertised the legal public notice for construction bids on July 29. Bid opening…

  • Road improvements to help rescue squad

    County, E.B. team up for work on Cranbury Road BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Middlesex County will perform road improvements on Cranbury Road in front of the township’s rescue squad building in the hope of making it easier for responders to avoid traffic while leaving the site. Traffic at the intersection of…

  • S.R. community enjoys a night on the town

    Borough departments collaborate on inaugural National Night Out BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Abig success. That is how South River officials, the police department and the South River Municipal Alliance described the town’s inaugural National Night Out, held Aug. 4 in the parking lot of South River High School. JEFF GRANIT staff Elizabeth Chordas, 10,…

  • Builder of residential, retail asks for changes

    Arisa asks E.B. to drop age restriction from 90 apartments BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Adeveloper that has approval to build age-restricted housing and a retail building on Main Street will ask East Brunswick to make some of the housing open to people of all ages. Arisa Realty Inc. recently submitted an application seeking a…

  • Fair fun

    Top: Old Bridge’s Taylor Rhodes, 10, East Brunswick’s Claudia Bykowski, 8, and Monroe’s Ashley Bondea, 6, enjoy a hair-raising ride during the Middlesex County Fair in East Brunswick Aug. 3. Top right: A member of the Victoria Circus performs a routine. Middle right: New Brunswick’s Elizabeth Christ, Stacy Brody, Tim Friday, Winston Prendergast and Jess…