Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Charity prodigious with cancer survivor aid

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer GeorgeYuhasz has turned his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in 1999 intowhat he and others call “a labor of love.” Yuhasz,who has been a special education teacher at the Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School system in East Brunswick for 30 years, formed the nonprofit group Prodigal Foundation Inc., 208 Main…

  • New bike path in works thanks to county funds

    EASTBRUNSWICK- An $80,000 grant from Middlesex County will allow the township to extend its bicycle path. The pathwill be extended fromFernRoad toHeavenly Farms and run throughDideriksen Park, said council President Catherine Diem. She said the plan is for construction to take place this spring when the weather is more accommodating. “The term ‘bike path’ is…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • $6.7M price tag puts library project on hold

    So. River to conduct needs assessment on public buildings BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Amillion-dollar increase in the cost of expanding the South River Public Library has put a stop to the project before it could get started. “We’re not sure we can go forward,” Mayor Raymond Eppinger said at Monday’s Borough Council meeting. Though…

  • Recycling plant proposal goes back to freeholders

    Battle continues over planned facility on Edgeboro Road BY VINCENT TODARO & BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writers EAST BRUNSWICK- Alongstanding battle over a proposed recycling plant on Edgeboro Road is not over yet. Triple M Sanitation is appealing a December 2006 decision by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders that rejected the firm’s application to…