Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Advocates seek safe homes for racehorses

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Barbara Luna of Long Branch has a mission: Placing racehorses in safe adoptive homes or retirement organizations. If a racehorse trained by a Philadelphia Park trainer is found at an auction where the horse is in danger of being sold to a dealer who in turn sells to socalled “kill…

  • End of line for trees on Timber Rd. in E.B.?

    Court rulings allow pipeline co. to clear right of way BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer After three years, it appears that a group of residents in East Brunswick has finally lost its fight to keep the trees along their street. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Neighbors who live on Timber Road talk about the trees that…

  • EAT RIGHT TO PLAY RIGHT – Advertorial

    By Gloria Averbuch Advertorial EAT RIGHT TO PLAY RIGHT   Active children–whether simply on the go or on the playing field–have special nutritional needs. Although that goes without saying, young people often skip on the essentials, and need education and guidance on the importance of good nutrition. Food choices have been shown to affect performance…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff East Brunswick High School student David Kolchmeyer, 17, performs with saxophonist and composer Grace Kelly in front of the school’s secondary instrumental students March 17. Kelly, 16, of Brookline, Mass., who has recorded or performed with many notable musicians, taught a master class last week thanks to an East Brunswick Education Foundation…

  • Milltown board makes cuts to defray tax hike

    District absorbs increases in tuition, transportation BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The average Milltown homeowner would see an increase of $155 in their school tax bill under a 2009-10 budget proposed by the Board of Education. The increase comes despite cuts made in several areas of the budget. The reductions were necessary in order to…

  • Students get help from boro officials in musical

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer IMAGE BY JOE CHURCH Spotswood Borough Council members Charlie Spicuzzo (clockwise, from bottom left), Ed Seely and John Shaughnessy, and Board of Education member Donna Faulkenberry, make up the singing quartet for the Appleby School’s “The Music Man Junior.” SPOTSWOOD — Appleby School’s annual stage show is always a community…

  • Municipal taxes level in South River budget

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — The Borough Council unanimously introduced a tentative budget that calls for no tax increase, a drastic difference from the 19-percent increase that loomed over taxpayers last year. Mayor Raymond T. Eppinger, in his second year as mayor this year, stressed that last year’s lofty increase was necessary,…

  • Brawl outside bar leads to Jackson man’s arrest

    MONROE — Police broke up a reported melee at a township bar, arresting and jailing an Ocean County man in the process. Police were dispatched to the Clubhouse Bar on Spotswood-Englishtown Road at 1:33 a.m. March 21 on a report of a large fight. The first officer arrived to find 15 to 20 people yelling…

  • Garage Sale to aid Project Graduation

    The Spotswood High School Project Graduation Garage Sale is set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 4, rain or shine, at Memorial Middle School, 115 Summerhill Road, Spotswood. Interested individuals may help support Project Graduation by donating a percentage of their sales from the event, donating some or all of their items, or by renting a…