Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Fiber revolution returns to Spotswood art gallery
Fiber Revolution artist Gwyned Trefethen’s piece “Entwined” is among the works featured in the Spotswood exhibit. SPOTSWOOD — Fiber artworks by the nationally recognized artists’ group Fiber Revolution are featured in a new exhibit at the Academy of Music on Main Street. The show, “Fiber Revolution: A Patch of Color,” is on display through March…
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So. Brunswick official selected as freeholder
Barrett takes vacant seat; Dalina will be director BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Middlesex County has a new freeholder and for the first time in over a decade, a new director. Carol Barrett During a special convention Sunday in East Brunswick, county Democrats elected South Brunswick Deputy Mayor Carol Barrett to the freeholder seat vacated…
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Two arrested after m.v. stop
EAST BRUNSWICK — A motor vehicle stop on Route 18 led to the arrest of two suspects on charges including possession of a weapon Dec. 29. Patrolman Jason Rios was patrolling Route 18 northbound at 9:21 p.m. when he observed a white, 1999 Pontiac Grand Am make an abrupt turn from the left lane of…
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Teams take inventory of E.B.’s feathered friends
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Ray Acquista (from right) of Spotswood, Ray Deeney of Monroe and Rich Wolfert of East Brunswick scope out some birds during Saturday’s East Brunswick Winter Bird Count, sponsored by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission. Below: A flock of gulls ascend from the…
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Menorah lighting
Participants light the menorah during the Central New Jersey Chanukah Festival Dec. 27 at the Brunswick Square Mall. Hundreds attended the event, which was sponsored by Chabad of East Brunswick and featured master illusionist and ventriloquist John Carlson, as well as Hannukah hero “Judah the Macabee.”
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rich Wolfert and other participants in Saturday’s East Brunswick Winter Bird Count take inventory at the Edgeboro Landfill, one of several stops during the day. Wolfert and other members of the Environmental Commission asked residents to watch for birds and report their species and numbers.
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Tracts targeted for affordable housing
Units will be built for veterans, disabled, seniors BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Monroe officials have chosen two sites where they plan to fulfill the township’s state affordable housing obligation. In time for the year-end New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) deadline, the tracts were designated for developments that will include municipally sponsored affordable…
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Stahl gets to work in E.B.
Two new council members take oaths in East Brunswick BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Anew year has brought the township a new mayor and a partly new East Brunswick Township Council. David Stahl David Stahl was sworn in as mayor during the Jan. 1 Township Council meeting, and Denise Contrino took her first oath as…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Ruth Cronley (l) and Funmi Adedokun do the Zumba, a Latin-themed exercise-dance routine, during a Dec. 31 class at the Raritan Valley YMCA in East Brunswick.
