Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Hanukkah workshop

    Chabad of East Brunswick recently provided education about the holiday of Hanukkah the fun way, with an olive press. During a Dec. 21 workshop at ShopRite, participants pressed, pounded and pulverized real olives into fresh olive oil like the ancient Maccabees. Children were able to use the olive oil to light the menorah, and also…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Students from Spotswood’s Appleby Elementary School perform during the annual holiday party at the borough’s Office on Aging on Dec. 17. Nick Toth (from right) and Kelly Kresge take part in the spirited dance and singalong. More photos, page 17.

  • Spotswood family honors son’s legacy

    Ida and Pedro Gonzalez seek to ‘make a difference’ BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent One life can make a difference in the world, and so can one death. Michael Gonzalez’s was one such life, and sadly his death this past summer in Iraq was one such death. Left: U.S. Army Spec. Michael Gonzalez is pictured…

  • A Happy Hanukkah

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: A children’s singing group sings Hanukkah songs during an event Sunday at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe on Gravel Hill Road. The event featured the lighting of what is billed as Monroe’s largest menorah. Left: Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky addresses those present for the Hanukkah party.

  • Three seek to fill freeholder vacancy

    Party to select successor to the late David B. Crabiel BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Three candidates have filed to fill the former seat of David B. Crabiel on the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Democrats Amy Papi of East Brunswick, Carol Barrett of South Brunswick and Charles Tomaro of Edison are in competition…

  • Library users starting to enjoy new features

    Facility reopens; construction continues until early February BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE — The township library is in the final chapter of its renovation project. The facility reopened for business last week after two weeks of closure, and construction is slated to be complete by the beginning of February, library Director Irene Goldberg said.…

  • Volunteers bring smiles to hospitalized children

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Retired NFL wide receiver Lonnie Allgood (center), Spotswood Police Sgt. Chris Bierman and Alliance on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse President Dawn Crandall share a moment with one of the children at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, on Dec. 18. SPOTSWOOD — A special group of people from the borough…

  • Triple is a home run for South River group

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KATHY CHANG Paul Zelanko, second from left, president of the South River Board of Health, and Diane Rondesko (from left), Carolyn Baptista and Pat Barnhart sort donations that were collected for Operation Reaching America’s Military on Dec. 20. SOUTH RIVER — Despite the icy and snowy weather conditions on Dec.…

  • Raccoon that bit resident is found to have rabies

    EAST BRUNSWICK — An aggressive raccoon that bit a resident last week tested positive for rabies. The resident was bitten Dec. 16 while in the garage of a home in the area of Vauxhall and University roads, according to Middlesex County Public Health Department Director David A. Papi. The resident tried to fight off the…