Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Officer alleges abuses on part of E.B. police
Patrolman says dept. retaliated against him for raising concerns BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – A longtime police officer is claiming the township’s police department punished him for his whistle-blowing activities. Joseph Marcantonio, a 17-year department veteran, filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court against the township and his superiors at the police…
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Boro gets two months to mull housing plan
Public comes out in force to debate Ford Ave. proposal BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Milltown secured a 60-day extension of the courtordered deadline to approve a controversial affordable housing plan that will affect the redevelopment of Ford Avenue. Mayor Gloria Bradford announced the news to a standing room-only crowd during Monday’s Borough Council meeting,…
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Family Fun Night
PHOTOS BY ANDREW MILLER staff Left to right: Marlena Stein, 4, of East Brunswick, works on building a scarecrow during Family Fun Night at Kiddie Academy of East Brunswick on Oct. 11. Marissa Ardito, 4, of East Brunswick, and her mother, Nicole, get in the Halloween spirit by making a scarecrow.
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Planned school building shifted to avoid dig site
Cost of redesign incorporated into Dec. referendum BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer The Monroe Board of Education has devised a way to bypass its land conundrum at the proposed site for a new high school. The board voted on Oct. 17 to move the footprint of the school so that it will not have to…
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Mayoral hopefuls debate the year’s hotter topics
Discussion ranges from Ford Avenue to civil unions BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Gloria Bradford MILLTOWN – Three mayoral hopefuls shared their views on key issues, with the controversial Ford Avenue redevelopment project predominating, at an annual candidates’ forum Oct. 17. Republican incumbent Mayor Gloria Bradford and her challengers, Democratic Borough Councilman Mike Skarzynski and…
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Rain-slicked road
STEVEN M. BARON East Brunswick Patrolman Robert Zielinski and members of the East Brunswick Independent Fire Co. look over damage to a sport-utility vehicle that ran off a rain-slicked Cranbury Road and struck a telephone pole at 4 p.m. Friday. The driver of the vehicle was not seriously injured.
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Mayoral candidates sound off on S.R. issues
Szegeti, Eppinger, Londensky on ballot in Nov. 6 election BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Mayor Robert Szegeti doesn’t need to be reminded of the significance of this year’s borough election. The Democratic incumbent has during the past year broken several tied votes from a Borough Council that is split evenly with three…
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Helmetta gets first ladder truck, and free of charge
South Brunswick firefighters donate truck after obtaining new one PHOTO COURTESY OF HELMETTA FIRE DEPARTMENT The Helmetta Fire Department’s new ladder truck, a 1982 American LaFrance, was donated by South Brunswick Township Fire District No. 1. HELMETTA – Christmas came a couple months early for the borough’s fire department this year. The department received a…
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Commuters, officials talk about issues
Traffic around TCC, mailer sent to E.B. residents at issue BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Commuters were back before the Township Council Monday night, raising concerns about the township’s contracted bus service and traffic conditions around Route 18. Reading a lengthy note from one commuter disillusioned with the bus service, Commuter Parking…
