Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Diversity day

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above left: Martha Bennett of East Brunswick displays her collection of ethnic dolls at her exhibit during the township’s annual Cultural Festival Sunday at the municipal complex. Above right: Rory Leonard, 12, of East Brunswick, attaches the glove he decorated to the “Rubber Hand Pipe,” a project started five years ago…

  • Couple builds studio, creates reality show

    National bands recording at new Sayreville facility BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Joe and Crystal Cattano, of Sayreville, have seen bands break up right in their music studio. JEFF GRANIT staff Jersey Syndicate rehearses last week at AARIUS Studios, opened recently by Joe and Crystal Cattano. The two have been filming a reality television show…

  • Photo exhibit explores Italian countryside

    The photographs of Mark E. Chernin will be on display at the Academy of Music on Main Street in Spotswood starting Sunday. SPOTSWOOD — The Academy of Music on Main Street will present a new show at its art gallery featuring photographs by Mark E. Chernin. An opening reception will be held from 1 to…

  • Playgroup’s message: go play and go green

    Two area moms start playgroup with a twist BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SCOTT FRIEDMAN Kathleen Dolphin of Milltown (from left) watches her son Zachery, 18 months, play as greenKidsPlay! co-owners Allison Myron and Patty Crowdell (right) look on during a Sept. 8 open house at the 4-H center on Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. EAST…

  • Council names successor after Bodall resigns seat

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer JAMESBURG — Officials have named a new Borough Council member to replace Tom Bodall, who resigned his seat after being arrested earlier this month. At its meeting Sept. 10, the council voted unanimously to appoint Daria Ludas to serve the unexpired, one-year term that Bodall began in January. Ludas is…

  • Officials praise Plans for dedicated service

    Longtime chairman of Zoning Board passes away at 69 BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE — The township has lost a friend. Longtime Zoning Board of Adjustment Chairman Alan Plans, who served Monroe in a number of capacities, died Sept. 8 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after a long illness. He…

  • $600K in improvements set for Pine Ridge Park

    VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Pine Ridge Park will receive the upgrades residents of the area have asked about for years. During last week’s Township Council meeting, officials announced that the park, at Daniel Place and Ainsworth Avenue, will receive about $600,000 worth of improvements, including new playground equipment. Township Business Administrator James…

  • Massages to fund cancer research

    EAST BRUNSWICK — In the next 25 years, 25 million men and women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Jennifer Walling, a 25-year-old North Brunswick resident and massage therapist at Massage Envy in the Mid-State Mall, Route 18, has seen the effects of cancer firsthand. Her mother was diagnosed with the disease in…

  • Town newspaper may be coming to an end

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The township may stop publishing the East Brunswick Quarterly after its end-of-year issue. Despite its name, the publication only came out once this year, and the township is now working on the second and final edition of the year. Township Business Administrator James White said last week…