Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Tax hike anticipated in revenue-starved budget
Stahl: Further cuts possible to reduce 23-cent increase BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — An initial municipal tax rate increase of 42 cents has been trimmed to 23 cents, and could go even lower, according to Mayor David Stahl. Stahl gave his first budget presentation during Monday night’s sparsely attended Township Council meeting,…
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Salamanders late to cross Beekman Road this year
Spring has sprung, and usually that means the salamanders are on their way across Beekman Road. But that has yet to happen this year, due to a lack of heavy rains since the warmer temperatures began to arrive. “It will happen … we just don’t know when,” members of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission website,…
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East Brunswick bank robbed
East Brunswick police released this surveillance camera image of a suspect in the process of robbing the TD Bank on Milltown Road Monday. EAST BRUNSWICK — Police are looking for man who held up the TD Bank on Milltown Road on Monday. The robbery took place shortly after 3 p.m. The suspect entered the bank,…
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TLC show features area family of 12
Upcoming episode filmed at Special Strides in Monroe BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer If they weren’t famous already, the Hayes family of Marlboro will soon be known by Americans everywhere who tune in to the cable network TLC. PHOTO COURTESY OF TLC Tara Hayes, 4, and Kevin, 12, have some fun in front of the…
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Club names golf director
MONROE — Award-winning golf professional Carolyn McKenzie Andrews has joined the staff of Forsgate Country Club as director of golf. Staying within the RDC Golf Group, McKenzie Andrews moves from the company’s Tuscawilla Country Club in Winter Springs, Fla., where she served as head golf professional for nearly eight years. This is somewhat of a…
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Officials asked to hear commuters re: contract
Bids solicited for five-year bus contract, effective May 1 BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township’s commuter bus contract, always a contentious issue and at times a legal one as well, is back on the table. If last week’s Township Council meeting is any indication, the next contract, which will take effect…
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Students gaining skills as ‘young consumers’
PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Samantha Swiderski, 9, and Ryan Gregory, 10, have their groceries scanned at ShopRite of Spotswood Friday when Appleby School students were brought there to shop for a nutritious, balanced three-day menu for a family of four on a budget of $100. The fourthgraders are taking part in the ShopRite Young…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Abby Lewis, 10, weighs a bag of apples at ShopRite of Spotswood on Friday when Appleby School students shopped for a nutritious, balanced three-day menu for a family of four on a budget of $100. The grocery run is part of the ShopRite Young Consumers Program, designed to teach fourth-graders a variety…
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Monroe board proposes tab with 3.8-cent hike
School budget calls for more teachers, classroom trailers BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The Monroe Township Board of Education is proposing a 2009-10 budget that would raise taxes $67 on the average home. The budget includes added costs due to the installation of eight new temporary classrooms at Applegarth Middle School, and the equivalent of…
