Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Towns by district

    About these statistics Staff members at Greater Media Newspapers recently studied the legislative records of each lawmaker in our coverage area for the 2006-07 legislative session. All figures were current as of Aug. 5, while the Legislature was on summer recess. The New Jersey Legislature’s Web site was used to chart the success of each…

  • Moth Night 2007

    Above, attendees of Moth Night 2007 check out some insects on a lighted sheet at the East Brunswick Butterfly Park Aug. 28. The Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission sponsored the event, bringing lights specially designed to attract moths, and “sugar-baiting” trees with a fermented mixture of beer, rum, banana, brown sugar and molasses,…

  • Rafano to sit on state’s new teen driving panel

    M iddlesex County Freeholder Christopher D. Rafano, of South River, has been named to the New Jersey Teenage Driver Safety Study Commission, which is charged with studying and evaluating a wide range of topics and programs associated with teenage drivers. State Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts (D-5) appointed Rafano to the commission. In a letter…

  • Visitors can better enjoy trail, lake, thanks to teen

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – If you’ve walked the nature trail near Dallenbach Lake recently, you have an Eagle Scout to thank. Timothy White, a recent graduate of East Brunswick High School and new Eagle Scout, worked to improve the nature trail and spruce up the area around Dallenbach Lake, adjacent to…

  • Photo

    ANDREW MILLER staff Patrick Vogel, 16, (r) and Mike Canfield, 15, spread the suds around to raise money for the East Brunswick High School cross-country and track teams Saturday. The runners held car washes on Saturday and Sunday at the high school, Cranbury Road.

  • Archeologists say artifacts are confined to 3.6 acres

    Firm, township ask state to allow work on rest of park land BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MONROE – Most of the proposed high school site in Thompson Park is not home to any substantial historical artifacts, according to the results of the latest archeological investigation. “We recommended that restrictions be lifted in that area,”…

  • Lacking state decision, board looks at options

    Issues surrounding new high school to be hashed out Monday BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer As the deadline for a December referendum looms large, the Monroe Board of Education is trying to hash out a workable plan for moving forward on the new high school. Short on funds to complete the proposed school, and still…