Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Seeking the perfect shot, from China to Milltown
Photography of Uri Thier on display at borough library BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer JESSICA SMITH Uri Thier, standing before some of the photographs on display at the Milltown Public Library this month, has traveled extensively, capturing images around the world. MILLTOWN – Whether across the world or around the corner fromhis home in the…
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Pianist’s goal is jazzing it up, and entertaining
East Bruns. native to perform Saturday at Old Bridge library BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE- Though Dave Schlossberg has been honing his skills as a pianist since the age of 5, he does not necessarily see skill as a top priority. The 24-year-oldEastBrunswick native is good enough atwhat he does tomake a livelihood…
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Family gets support as two recover from cancer
Old Bridge hockey event will help family with medical costs BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Brett Fegel, 5, and his parents, Fred and Kristen, peek inside a gift bag containing a New Jersey Devils cap, one of several gifts presented to the family by the K. Hovnanian Trade Partners Council in December. The East Brunswick…
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Celebrating Chinese culture and a new year
State’s oldest Chinese school marks 45th anniversary BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent Local residents didn’t need to travel to China or even Chinatown to enjoy the beauty and pageantry of an authentic Chinese New Year celebration. JEFF GRANIT staff Christina Tan, 8, of East Brunswick, tosses a ring onto a soda can during the Chinese…
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Tolerance and understanding
PHOTOS BY MARTIN HEWITT Some 60 children from East Brunswickarea houses of worship and youth groups came together Jan. 21 for the third annual Daniel Pearl Education Center trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Students from the Pearl center at Temple B’nai Shalom, St. Bartholomew’s School, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, India…
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Corzine coming to E.B. to discuss toll hike plan
Boisterous crowd pans proposal during gov’s Marlboro stop Monday BY REBECCA MORTON & VINCENT TODARO Staff Writers Gov. Jon Corzine is scheduled to hold a “town hall” meeting in East Brunswick Sunday and will discuss his controversial proposal to raise tolls. Corzine is making stops in all 21 counties in New Jersey to explain his…
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Board majority approves lower tuition for J’burg
Two members say board wrongly stifled their questions BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Jamesburg taxpayers will be spared about $400,000 in tuition costs for students sent to Monroe Township High School. The Monroe Board of Education voted Jan. 23 to use its own rate for students and charge Jamesburg $13,715 per student, which excludes interest…
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Crabiel in, Fernicola out for freeholder race
Director, 77, says he wants to see projects through to fruition BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer While one longtime Middlesex County freeholder will retire later this year, another with more than double the years under his belt will seek to hold on to the post. Camille Fernicola Freeholder Camille Fernicola said she will retire at…
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Student discusses need, rules for service dogs
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD- First she learned the importance of a service dog, now she’s teaching others about it. For Katlin Miller, it’s been quite an experience. She recently began using a service dog to warn her or retrieve help in the event that she has an epileptic seizure. She had to learn…
