Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Splish- splash

    Top: Amy Mitchel and daughter Olivia have fun in the pool July 12 at the Village Swim Club, Tower Center Boulevard, East Brunswick, during the third annual Rock and Roll Party. Above: Many had fun playing water basketball at the swim club as local band the VooDUDES got ready to perform. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Walling back in jail due to probation issues

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Richard Walling, the former township resident and official, has again been jailed on charges he violated probation related to a 2005 third-degree theft charge. The one-time township councilman and land use board member, also a noted local historian and school teacher, was brought to the Middlesex County…

  • Police seek suspect in botched burglaries

    Man flees homes after encountering juveniles inside BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Police are looking for a suspect who may have committed a string of burglaries in area towns recently, though many of the break-ins were aborted when residents spotted the suspect in their homes. Old Bridge police released this sketch of a suspect who…

  • Police: Man raced, had marijuana

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Police believe an 18-year-old man was racing his vehicle on Route 18 when he crashed and was subsequently arrested on a drug charge. Police responded to the one-car accident on Route 18 south near the Hillsdale Road intersection at 11:48 a.m. July 23. Officers determined that Matthew C. Macagnone, of Marlboro, was…

  • He … is … Ironman, after 12½ painful hours

    O.B. man, family revel in achievement; advise others not to try it BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Old Bridge resident Dan Fishman, 35, crosses the finish line at the Ironman competition. As he made his way into the stadium, he heard the roar of the crowd, spotted his family, and “all the pain went away.”…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Dick and Jane Brief dance to the calypso sounds of Caribbean Steel Beat, which performed at the gazebo in Thompson Park on July 17. The show was the second of six free “Music in the Park” concerts being held on Thursdays this summer. The David Aaron Quintet will play Broadway hits and…

  • Kittens have showers too

    BY KRISTIN TANGEL Correspondent ERIC SUCAR staff John Stellingwerf, 4, of Old Bridge, and Denise Walsh, of Sayreville, look on as Barbara Keegan, director of the Sayreville Pet Adoption Center, holds a cat named Sterling during the center’s “Kitten Shower” Saturday. SAYREVILLE – The Sayreville Pet Adoption Center held a “Kitten Shower” on Saturday to…

  • Jamesburg residents to decide library’s fate

    Borough officials expect to hold referendum in fall BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Voters will likely decide this fall whether to keep Jamesburg’s public library open or save money by using Monroe’s facility. Mayor Anthony LaMantia said residents would get a "bigger and better" service in the Monroe Township Library, located in the township’s municipal…

  • Memorial School is out of service for 2008-09

    Students to be housed in portable classrooms outside 3 other schools BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer The fire that ripped through a portion of Memorial Elementary School in East Brunswick July 10 has rendered the school unusable for the coming school year, officials said last week. Flames shoot through the walls and roof of the…