Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • New digs

    Brill’s Karate students (l-r) T.J. Scarpa, Michael Cesareo, Ava Winters, Danny Homnick, Jordan Taha and Aaron Ahr work with Master Barry Brill recently at the school’s new digs at Main Street Market Plaza in Spotswood. Brill moved the facility from Milltown, saying he wanted to take his students to a large, light and bright facility.…

  • Construction official may sue over lay-off

    Old Bridge takes over building inspections for South River BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER – The borough’s building department has been disbanded, and Old Bridge’s employees took on its services starting last week. South River construction official David Wroblewski was laid off as a result of the change, and his attorney, Stephen Hunter,…

  • Borough, unions agree to new contract terms

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – Borough police officers have come to terms with the governing body on a new four-year contract. The deal will provide yearly pay increases of 4 percent, according to Borough Business Administrator Ronald Fasanello. The contract talks went into arbitration, but the two sides recently settled. Officials also came…

  • For the Record

    A Sept. 13 article regarding Monroe Township’s efforts to build a high school in a section of Thompson Park included a quote from Richard Walling, an opponent of the township’s plan, who claimed that the township’s hired archeologist, Richard Grubb & Associates, had been “paid to report that there was no Indian connection” to the…

  • Taking a spin

    CHRIS KELLY staff Faccin Euclides, 10, (far right) enjoys a spin on one of the rides during the second annual Cultural Heritage Festival in South River at Edward A. Grekoski Park on Saturday.

  • Building owner to pay fine, address violations

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – A municipal court judge recently fined the owner of the old Asbury Fuel building for various code-related violations. The owner, Evangelos Dimitrakopoulos, of Edison, was given a $1,500 fine, and agreed to drop any legal action against the borough, according to borough Business Administrator Ron Fasanello. The owner…

  • Heritage Day festival

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Nick Lazos (l) and Harold Blumenbrantz, both of Monroe, serenade the crowd with “It’s a Small World” at North Brunswick’s 25th annual Heritage Day festival held Saturday at Babbage Park.

  • Boro seeks bidders for Lincoln School property

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer MICHAEL ACKER South River officials are auctioning off the former Lincoln School site in South River. SOUTH RIVER – The borough will put the former Lincoln School up for auction. The vacant school property at William and Prospect streets was previously included in the borough’s redevelopment plan, but that was…

  • New PBA contract raises salaries, changes schedule

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Police have a new four-year contract that includes average costof living increases of about 3.8 percent per year. The Township Council voted last week to accept the agreement, which is retroactive to the beginning of the year, Township Business Administrator James White said. The contract includes a…