Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Group improves park during ‘Day of Caring’

    Danielle Garvey, 6, granddaughter of Helmetta Councilman Sewell Peckham, works the wheelbarrow during the United Way Day of Caring Saturday on North Shore Boulevard. HELMETTA – Borough officials, residents and volunteers from the United Way of Central Jersey came together Saturday to improve Residents Park, located on North Shore Boulevard. The group removed the pea…

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    Spotswood High School’s graduating class of 2008 makes its way to the school football field for commencement exercises as the sun sets June 17. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Water line improvements expected for two streets

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The Borough Council has decided to continue with a relining and cleaning of the water lines in an effort to finally eliminate the water discoloration problems that have persisted for years. During its June 9 meeting, the council agreed that lines along Easton Avenue and Mott Place, both…

  • N.B. soldier fundraises for Marine Corps scholarship

    Maj. Chris Ieva wants to support children of Marines BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – An Iraq veteran who will be deployed again in 2009 is currently fundraising in support of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Maj. Christopher Ieva, 34, a 1991 graduate of the North Brunswick Township High School, is seeking donations…

  • South River residents arrested on drug charges at vacant home

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Police made two arrests and recovered numerous bags of cocaine at a vacant home on Henry Street recently. A caller told police at 10:51 p.m. June 10 that he observed lights on inside a vacant house that had been deemed unsafe and had its utilities turned off.…

  • Two new Milltown cops being deployed to Iraq

    Police academy graduates activated for military duty BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MILLTOWN – Two newly hired police officers in the borough had to put off starting their new careers to go serve in Iraq. Eric Wachenheim and Ryan Uzunis, both residents and recent graduates from area police academies, met when they were hired by…

  • Library invites community to enjoy a ‘model’ display

    BY KRISTIN TANGEL Staff Writer KRISTIN TANGEL A scale model of the USS Olympia is among those on display in East Brunswick. EAST BRUNSWICK – More than 25 model ships have made their way into the display cases at the East Brunswick Public Library. Furnished by the Ship Model Society of New Jersey, the models…

  • Locks of Love

    Emily Sullivan, 8, her sister, Elizabeth Sullivan, 5, and friend Camryn Andrulewich, 8, all of Milltown, show the ponytails they had cut for Locks of Love on June 20. The charity organization provides hairpieces to children dealing with medical hair loss.

  • Youth recognized for what flag means to her

    PHOTO COURTESY OF RUSS MENSCH, QUICK CHEK NEW JERSEY FESTIVAL OF BALLOONING Essay contest winner Halle Feeney (second from left), of Milltown, is pictured with PNC Central New Jersey President Kevin Tylus (left), pilot Sally Mazzocchi, Joyce Kilmer School Principal Janet Ferlazzo and Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning’s executive producer, Howard Freeman. MILLTOWN…