Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Crowd thanks Zagnit, Shearn at last meeting

    Pair credited with improving town over 12 years in office BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer It was a night filled with emotion and fond remembrances of the past 12 years as Spotswood Mayor Barry Zagnit and Councilman James Shearn said goodbye Monday, which marked their final meeting on the governing body. The Borough Council chambers…

  • Architect suggests new building layout for boro

    Study: Library needs more space; new fire, rescue buildings needed BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer An architect hired by South River has recommended ways to reconfigure municipal facilities so the borough can operate more efficiently. Anthony Iovino, charged with looking at the town’s facility needs and finding ways to better configure the buildings and departments,…

  • Circus act

    Top to bottom: Performers with the Alain Zerbini Family Circus entertain the crowd at John F. Kennedy School in Jamesburg June 12. The day’s two performances were presented by the Jamesburg Civic Association and sponsored by E.P. Henry and Gray Rock Supply Co. Elmer Lepri and Erma Durko, of Monroe, watch a juggler. The circus…

  • Parking rates to increase in October for new TCC

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Parking rates at the new Transportation and Commerce Center (TCC) will be adjusted in October to bring them in line with the township’s other park-and-ride facility, Neilson Plaza. The TCC, formerly an 1,130-space parking lot adjacent to Sam’s Club, will open this fall as a six-story deck…

  • 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

  • Police: Two arrested after alleged road-rage incident

    Two area men were arrested in what police described as a road-rage incident that began in Sayreville and ended in East Brunswick on June 6. Police said the incident began around 8 p.m. when Samuel Cruz, 25, of East Brunswick, accused 29-year-old Christopher Ohara, of Sayreville, of striking Cruz’s 1999 Honda at a merge near…

  • Greater Media’s CEO stresses sense of community in media, banking

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Members of the New Jersey League of Community Bankers were treated to a presentation on the benefits and future of the radio market by Peter Smyth, president and chief executive officer of Greater Media Inc. Peter Smyth, president and CEO of Greater Media Inc., speaks at the annual marketing conference…

  • Teachers hope to raise $14K-plus for research

    BY KRISTIN TANGEL Correspondent Nicole Haggiag, a fourth-grade teacher at East Brunswick’s Lawrence Brook Elementary School, is passionate about raising funds for breast cancer research. Lawrence Brook Elementary School teachers (l-r) Dana Hauenstein, Nicole Haggiag and Erica Dean are part of a team of eight that is walking in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer…