Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • In Tune

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Music Director Lori Goldstein conducts for her students during their spring concert at Warnsdorfer Elementary School in East Brunswick May 20.

  • Boro grants temporary license for junkyard

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – Borough officials granted a temporary license for Big AAuto Wreckers to continue its operation, on the condition that it build a cement fence on its Manalapan Road property byAug. 15. The Borough Council agreed to issue the license to junkyard owners Perry and Fernando Giancola after a special…

  • Fundraisers

    May 29-June 21 • Book Sale, during regular library hours, at the Spotswood Public Library, 548 Main St. Hardcover books, paperbacks, children’s books, VHS videos, audiocassettes. Paperbacks, 50 cents each or three for $1; hardcovers, 75 cents and up; VHS videos, $1. All-You-Can-Carry-for-$5 Sale during last two days, June 20 and 21. All sales final.…

  • E.B. girl, 10, twirls her way to NJ championship

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Allie Warren EAST BRUNSWICK – Her mom twirled a baton at the Rose Bowl, and if Allie Warren keeps going at this rate, she too may be twirling at Bowl games someday. A llie, a 10-year-old student at Memorial Elementary School, recently won the New Jersey State Baton Championship in…

  • Remembering

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Top to bottom: Ira Roth, commander of Jewish War Veterans Post 311, East Brunswick, proudly holds the flag. Wearing the original World War II uniform he donned 65 years ago as aerial gunner on a fighter bomber, Frank Maltese participates in the East Brunswick Memorial Day observance. Members of the U.S.…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN East Brunswick Mayor Bill Neary and World War II veteran Ben Roth, of Monroe, take part in East Brunswick’s Memorial Day observance Sunday. Roth, who flew many missions in combat and noncombat areas, remains active in the state office of the Jewish War Veterans. He served as guest speaker Sunday. More photos, page…

  • Positions, purchases among $1.1M in cuts

    Board switches last remaining school-funded field trip to parent-paid BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Staff positions, district publications and school supplies are among the many items cut from the school budget to achieve the $1 million in reductions ordered by the East Brunswick Township Council. The Board of Education approved a list of 28 cuts…

  • Fiscal woes have library renovations on hold

    Officials to consider moving it downtown to a multiuse building BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer In the wake of what’s been described as a financial crisis for South River, officials are weighing their options for the long-anticipated library expansion project. Mayor Raymond Eppinger and the Borough Council announced in January that they put the plans…

  • Memorial Day parade steeped in tradition

    Sayreville, E. Bruns., Spotswood, Old Bridge to hold services When the Jamesburg-Monroe- Helmetta Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. Monday from Veterans’Memorial Park in Jamesburg, it will be doing so for the 125th time. The town’s first Memorial Day Parade took place May 30, 1883, when the members of Sumner Post 74, GrandArmy…