Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Council pushes off vote on new union contract

    Diem: More time needed to reach a fair agreement BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Despite a strong turnout from members of the municipal employees union, the Township Council opted not to vote on a new contract for them last week. Members from United Services Workers Union Local 1996 packed the council chambers…

  • Police arrest borough man in Feb. attempted robbery

    SPOTSWOOD — A borough man has been arrested on charges that he allegedly tried to rob the Exxon gas station at Main Street and Summerhill Road. Joseph Sicola, 29, was arrested some eight months after he allegedly attempted to hold up the gas station while brandishing a knife. The attempted robbery took place at 9:20…

  • Cell antennas approved

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township Zoning Board of Adjustment recently granted approval for the placement of cellular antennas on a Route 18 site. The board granted use and bulk variances, as well as minor site plan approval, to Metro PCS to locate antennas on an existing monopole tower on property…

  • Pop art’s bold imagery on display at Zimmerli

    Left, Andy Warhol’s “Vegetarian Vegetable,” from 1969, is among the prints on exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. Below, “Reverie,” by former Rutgers professor Roy Lichtenstein, is from 1965. NEW BRUNSWICK — They’re now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era, known as proto-pop and pop…

  • Judges pick dessert pizza winner

    Left: Greater Media Newspapers’ Bob Noppe (second from left) judged the dessert pizza contest along with Todd Mayo and Alfredo DeBonis, pictured with Dawn and Colm Shanahan. Above: Judges Alfredo DeBonis and Todd Mayo try out the top five contenders. Below: Elizabeth Cappel’s blueberry lemon pie dessert pizza took third. MILLTOWN — There’s dessert, and…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Runners make their way through Thompson Park in Monroe during Saturday’s second annual Friends and Neighbors in Action 5K, which raised money for families and organizations in the struggle against type 1 diabetes.

  • Monroe adjusting to new COAH rules

    Town required to add 1,505 units of affordable housing BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer As municipalities throughout New Jersey face a Dec. 31 deadline for affordable housing plans that meet with new regulations passed down by the state, Monroe officials are charged with formulating an alternate plan to meet the current rules. “Believe it or…

  • Officials pleased with opening of new deck

    Parking permits given out to those on waiting list BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer The new Transportation and Commerce Center (TCC) has had minimal problems since opening earlier this month, East Brunswick officials said. Mayor William Neary said he knew of only a couple of issues with the new township operated parking deck at Route…

  • Alumni enjoy weekend back at school

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer School spirit is alive and well, at least when it comes to 50 years’ worth of classmates from East Brunswick High School. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Top: Friends from the class of 1963 at East Brunswick High School take a group picture after signing a commemorative banner at the alumni…