Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • County transportation group rewards ‘smart’ employers

    Middlesex County’s nonprofit transportation management association has designated 17 local employers as NJ Smart Workplaces. Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., working with the state Department of Transportation, awarded the businesses, towns and other organizations at aMay 13 ceremony. Companies can earn the prestigious NJ Smart Workplace designation by providing and supporting employee transportation programs for reducing…

  • Seniors get in the game throughout Middlesex

    Offices on aging say Wii can help keep users active and healthy BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Afitness pilot programlaunched at area senior centers has its participants saying, “Wii want to play.” PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Clockwise from top: Monroe Township Council President Gerry Tamburro lines up a putt on the Wii gaming system at…

  • Second rabid skunk turns up in Monroe

    MONROE – A skunk tested positive for rabies last week, marking the second reported case of a rabid animal in the township this year, and the fifth for the county. Township police received a report that a skunk was acting aggressively in the area of Linwood Drive and Cranbury Station Road on May 22. The…

  • Some aid comes back to local small towns

    Officials not pleased with limited restoration of state aid BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – Cuts to state aid for small towns such as the borough won’t be as bad as Gov. Jon Corzine proposed earlier this year. Mayor Barry Zagnit said the state will restore $66,000 in aid, and officials hope to receive…

  • Bill would move school election, end budget vote

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer New JerseyAssembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) has introduced legislation that would eliminate the state’s April school election and move the election for school board members to the date of the November general election. The bill recently had a hearing before theAssembly Education Committee.Under the terms of the bill, residents of…

  • Observance holds special meaning for local Marine

    To serve in Iraq after two tours in Afghanistan BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Left: U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Neilsen, of East Brunswick, with girlfriend Kelly Williams during East Brunswick’s Memorial Day observance on Sunday at the municipal complex. Above: Neilsen is pictured during one of his two tours of duty in Afghanistan. EAST BRUNSWICK…

  • Grandparents Day

    Students at Schoenly School in Spotswood celebrated Grandparents Day recently. Grandparents were invited to sit in the classrooms as the children read stories and sang songs to them, and all participated in a craft activity. Here, Anthony Dove and grandmother Dorothy get crafty in Debra Generelli’s kindergarten class.

  • Group makes new Strides with therapeutic driving

    Horse-and-cart program dedicated to late NYC firefighter BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE – Horse-drawn carriages might seem a little old-fashioned to some, but to the Special Strides program at Congress Hill Farm they are a useful innovation. Staff members at the nonprofit organization are raring to go for the Joseph Farrelly Therapeutic Driving Program,…

  • Driver, 18, gets DUI charge after Memorial Day crash on Route 18

    STEVEN M. BARON A vehicle belonging to a Piscataway man lies upside down on Route 18 in East Brunswick after striking a utility pole and downing wires Monday morning. The driver, who suffered what police described as minor injuries, was charged with DUI. EAST BRUNSWICK – A Piscataway man was charged with driving under the…