Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Game day a slam dunk for buddies, pals
Fast Break gives players a rare chance to enjoy the spotlight BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent More than 200 friends, family members, East Brunswick officials and other fans came out to cheer on the players at a unique event Saturday, the inaugural “My Buddy My Pal” basketball game day.T SCOTT FRIEDMAN Frank Harris charges onto…
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Helmetta to set course on restructuring P.D.
Proposes director instead of chief; no J’burg coverage BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Helmetta may do away with the position of police chief in favor of a restructured department that includes a civilian director of public safety. The Borough Council was scheduled last night to vote on introducing an ordinance that would make the position…
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Municipal tab carries 11-cent tax rate hike
Neary’s ’08 budget includes position cuts, freeze on travel costs BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Residents would face an 11- cent increase in the municipal tax rate under a 2008 budget introduced by the Township Council on Monday. If the budget is adopted, the increase would see the owner of property assessed…
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Snow Day
Top: Dominic Acosta, 13, of East Brunswick, takes advantage of Friday’s weather by snowboarding on the hill behind East Brunswick High School. Right: A snowplow clears Davison Avenue in Jamesburg after several hours of snowfall Friday. Bottom: Jim McCabe and his son, James III, 3, of Monroe, enjoy a sleigh ride in Thompson Park Friday…
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Afternoon of Israeli music coming to E. Bruns. library
The Makhelat HaMercaz Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey will present a tribute to the land of Israel Saturday at the East Brunswick Public Library. The free concert is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EAST BRUNSWICK – Think Israeli music consists only of “Hava Nagila?” Think again. On March 2, Makhelat HaMercaz Jewish Choir…
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Scholarships memorialize youth sports enthusiast
Jeanne P. Alessandro, who was known for her love of sports and family and was a regular at her children’s baseball and softball games, is being remembered through scholarships at East Brunswick and Raritan high schools. EAST BRUNSWICK – A woman who loved sports and family will be memorialized through scholarships given to high school…
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Mall kicks off Kidgets club for kids, age 3-8
EAST BRUNSWICK – The Simon Kidgits Club is coming to the Brunswick Square Mall, Route 18. The club, first introduced bymall owner Simon Property Group in 2003 for children ages 3-8, is currently offered at 104 Simon malls nationwide. Children in the Middlesex County area who join the club will experience a yearlong calendar of…
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Indoor soccer center plan for Cotters Lane pulled
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUSNWICK – A plan to bring an indoor soccer facility to the township has been pulled, for now. The proposal called for an amateur indoor soccer facility and training center in a building that formerly housed a gymnastics school. Though the application was scheduled to be heard by the…
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Child’s plight inspires outpouring of help
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer What started out as a community effort to find a miracle for one Marlboro boy has spread across the nation. Marc Weinstein Born with the rare blood disorder Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Marc Weinstein, 9, is in need of a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. According to the Histiocytosis…
