Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Two arrested in armed robbery
East Brunswick police recently arrested two suspects soon after the men allegedly robbed an Old Bridge motorcycle store at gunpoint. Two suspects entered ER Cycles on Englishtown Road and held up the 26- year-old storeowner and a 25-year-old employee at 3:45 p.m. Dec. 10. One of the suspects assaulted the employee, striking him in the…
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Nissenblatts recognized for making a difference
Temple B’nai Shalom also honors Challah Foundation BY CINDY PAUL Guest Writer Dr. Michael and Marlene Nissenblatt address the crowd of more than 300 who came to honor them at Temple B’nai Shalom’s recent “Spirit of Giving” gala in Manalapan. EAST BRUNSWICK — Temple B’nai Shalom recently honored Dr. Michael and Marlene Nissenblatt during its…
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Morgan- Stewart
Melissa Anne Morgan, Stephen Stewart Morgan- Shelley and Joseph Morgan of Spotswood announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa Anne Morgan, to Stephen Eric Stewart, son of Jean and Eric Stewart of Yorktown, Va. The future bride is a graduate of Spotswood High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a…
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Stork Club
Maria Suravalas and Joseph Perry of East Brunswick announce the birth of their daughter, Ava Victoria, Oct. 16, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. The baby weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces. Grandparents are John Suravalas of Sayreville and Joan and Joe Perry of North Brunswick. Godparents are Lee and Brandon Gray of Sayreville.
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Monroe eyes takeover of utilities authority
MUA chairman argues move not as fruitful as projected BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer The Monroe Township Council is working toward dissolving the Municipal Utilities Authority, a move that would do away with the MUA’s Board of Commissioners and hand the council the reins of the water and sewer utility. Three ordinances introduced by the…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Jamesburg’s tree lighting and holiday concert went on as planned at Veterans Park, despite the rain and wind Dec. 10. Here, Joshua Pemberton, 7, sings holiday songs with other borough youngsters under the cover of a roof on a portable stage.
