Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • School tax increase proposed in Helmetta

    HELMETTA – Voters will decide the fate of a $4.36 million budget for the 2008- 09 school year that includes a 6.6-cent increase in the school tax rate. The tax hike means that the owner of property assessed at the borough average of $273,182 would pay $180 more in school taxes for the next school…

  • Events will help teen recovering from cancer

    E.B. resident endured three months of chemo, 13 hours of surgery BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – If anyone can use a night out at the Stress Factory comedy club, it is Tommie Lukowski. The 18-year-old township resident has been fighting cancer for more than a year, and though it is a struggle,…

  • Calvano gets GOP nod to run again for mayor

    Republican ticket includes DeMarzo, Wendell for council BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Christi Calvano EAST BRUNSWICK – Former township councilwoman Christi Calvano will make her second bid for mayor this November. The Republican became the youngest council member in township history when she was began a four-year term at the age of 27 in January…

  • Teenage girl trying to cope with osteosarcoma

    Tricky tray fundraiser planned for April 13 in Milltown BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Caitlyn Brown NORTH BRUNSWICK- At the age of 14, most girls are worrying about starting high school, when they can date and what the latest fashion trend is. For Caitlyn Brown, life was a little different. In the spring of 2004,…

  • Five seek three seats on E.B. Board of Education

    One incumbent, four newcomers vie in April 15 vote Sophia Brydbord Brydbord has been a resident of East Brunswick for over 20 years. She has two children attending the Central and Hammarskjöld schools, and is a Realtor with Orange Key Realty. During her career in the real estate industry, Brydbord had the opportunity to work…

  • Field of four seeking three So. River seats

    Three incumbents, return candidate vie in April 15 election BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Voters will decide next week which of four candidates will get three seats on the Board of Education. In addition, they’ll vote on a school budget that calls for no increase in school taxes, thanks in part to…

  • Monroe tab calls for new staff, buses, more courses

    MONROE – School taxes would increase by 3.7 percent if a 2008-09 budget is approved by voters April 15. The $85.4 million general fund budget includes increased staff to accommodate the projected 200 additional students coming to the school system, as well as the opening of the Oak Tree Elementary School on Applegarth Road. It…

  • E.B. residents’ pastels on display in Spotswood

    “A Break in the Clouds,” by Harvey Rogosin. SPOTSWOOD- An exhibition featuring pastel works by Harvey Rogosin will be on display at the Academy of Music on Main Street through June 25. Rogosin, a native New Yorker who has resided in East Brunswick for the past 23 years, is a selftaught artist. He began experimenting…

  • Book bonanza

    CHRIS KELLY staff Stu Glasser, of New York, was among the many who came to the Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick Monday morning for the opening of the 34th annual Bargain Book and Media Sale, sponsored by the Friends of the East Brunswick Public Library. The sale continues through Sunday. For more photos, see…