Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Monroe taxes to increase with 2008 municipal tab
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE- Under the 2008municipal budget, residents can expect to pay close to $100 more in property taxes on an average home than they did last year. For the homeowner with property assessed at the township average of $174,226, the yearly tax bill will be $1,068, a $98 increase from last…
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Lab on wheels
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Lab partners Joanna Haines (l) and Kasey Lam, both 11, examine a bone inside the Rutgers Science Explorer, a mobile laboratory that was brought to the East Brunswick Public Library March 5. Bottom: East Brunswick Public Library’s youth services librarian, Carol Phillips, emerges from the science lab.
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Officials do battle over budget philosophy in E.B.
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – It’s not just small towns being hit by the latest wave of state aid cuts. Township residents could see another 3 cents added to the proposed 11-cent increase in the municipal tax rate this year. The 11-cent increase included in Mayor William Neary’s budget proposal would have…
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Holder of most records breaks his latest in O.B.
Queens man pushes Ford more than 17 miles at local drag strip BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Pushing a car is one of the last things most people would want to end up doing on a chilly Saturday. But then, Ashrita Furman is not most people. JEFF GRANIT staff Ashrita Furman, 53, pushes a Ford…
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Helmetta officials: Aid cuts will be ‘devastating’
Boro to lose more than $136,000 in aid with governor’s budget BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Helmetta will bear the brunt of state aid cuts proposed in Gov. Jon Corzine’s latest state budget proposal. In fact, Corzine plans to eliminate all of the municipal aid to Helmetta and all other towns with populations of less…
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Jeazzed up
PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Left: Robert Braun, 16, (r) performs as part of the East Brunswick High School Jazz Ensemble during the annual Community Day at the Brunswick Square Mall on Route 18 Sunday. Above: Joanne Zou, flanked by Mike Ying and Lewei Shang, perform a tai chi sword demonstration.
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Boro faces opposition in police restructuring
Attorney vows lawsuit if council eliminates police chief’s position BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer “I don’t hold any ill feelings toward Cully or the people who voiced their displeasures with us. It really is not a personal thing at all.” – Peter Karczewski HELMETTA- A plan to do away with the borough’s police chief position…
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Father & son face drug manufacturing charges
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTHRIVER- Police visiting aMain Street homewith a searchwarrant allegedly discoveredmarijuana plants,manufacturing equipment and two suspects. Sgt. John McKenna of the South River Police Department said police went to the Main Street home at 3:27 p.m. Feb. 14, following an investigation into alleged drug manufacturing and distribution, and found a hydroponic…
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Fire dept. gets $237K to buy vital equipment
SPOTSWOOD – The borough’s volunteer fire department will receive $237,400 in federal funding to purchase air packs, firehouse ventilation systems, medical physicals and immunizations for firefighters. The grant award is the first for the Spotswood department since 2001, when it received $107,000 to improve its communications system, according to Nick Poliseno, assistant fire chief. Poliseno…
