Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Splish splash

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Left: Ray Graulich and son Ray III, 6, of North Brunswick, make their way along the Lazy River at Crystal Springs Aquatic Center in East Brunswick Saturday. Right: Paxton Furr, 2, of South River, gets a splash courtesy of his father Joshua and mother Tracy, as 9-month-old brother Benjamin looks on.

  • Area officials weigh in on diploma mill matter

    Monmouth County school administrators’ doctorates at issue BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer While the N.J. Department of Education (NJDOE) says it can do nothing to stop educators from obtaining degrees from “diploma mills” on the taxpayers’ dime, officials from Middlesex County school districts say it is a practice they do not tolerate. The NJDOE released…

  • The long hot summer

    While you dig the hole to find a home for your latest native plant, you can run the risk of adding another crick to your lower back. Watch how you handle your tools, be aware of your stance when digging, lift properly, and don’t even attempt to move a 100-pound boulder without assistance. And once…

  • Resident celebrates 100th

    Friends and Chelsea staff members present Teresa Carlucci with a birthday cake. EAST BRUNSWICK — When you ask Teresa Carlucci the secret to a long life, she shrugs and says simply, “No secret. Take one day at a time.” Carlucci, born July 30, 1908, celebrated her 100th birthday at her home, Chelsea Assisted Living, Cranbury…

  • Husband-wife team set for night of Italian opera

    BY KRISTINE TANGEL Correspondent Annamaria Stefanelli MONROE — Soprano Annamaria Stefanelli and her husband, tenor Rory Angelicola, will perform “A Sunday of Italian Opera” on Sunday at Villa Laura Ristorante, Spotswood-Englishtown Road. “It’s to recreate the excitement and passion of the opera,” Angelicola said. Accompanied by pianist James Lubrano, the pair will perform a variety…

  • Conservation group seeks volunteers to count bats

    Collected information helps biologists monitor population trends Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey is looking for volunteers to help protect one of the most endangered land mammal groups in the United States — bats. According to a press release, New Jersey is home to nine species of bats, including the Indiana bat, a federally protected…

  • NJ Transit bus customers can receive e-mail updates

    NJ Transit bus customers can now receive up-to-the-minute travel information for their specific trip through the My Transit alert system, which sends a text alert directly to customers’ cell phones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDA) or e-mail whenever there is a delay affecting their designated itinerary. “We are expanding our My Transit alert service to…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rachele Gardner, 11, of South River, dusts a window for fingerprints as borough Police Officer Jason Klein supervises on Friday. The borough Police Department and municipal drug alliance held the town’s first Junior Police Academy last week, with 30 middle school students participating.

  • Unfit buildings law OK’d amid concerns

    Designed to streamline process of addressing structures in disrepair BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer After roughly two hours of discussion, the South River Borough Council voted in favor of a new ordinance regulating unfit buildings. Councilman Anthony Razzano, the only Democrat on the governing body, was the lone dissenter in the 5-1 vote to adopt…