Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Charity softball game to benefit local girl, 8

    Police, firefighters, EMTs to play ball for Frost second-grader BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer East Brunswick EAST BRUNSWICK – The township’s emergency personnel will step up to the plate Saturday to score one for a local 8-year-old girl who has Ewing’s sarcoma. The fourth annual Guns & Hoses softball game will…

  • Councilman upset over Golden Triangle papers

    Mayor’s agreement entitles bank to land should builder default BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – If Toll Brothers defaults on its agreement to purchase the Golden Triangle redevelopment area, a bank would have to take over as owner of the Route 18 property. In August 2006, Mayor William Nary…

  • Town looks to unload land off Rues, Cranbury

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The Township Council last week adopted an ordinance that declares a portion of township-owned property at Rues Lane and Cranbury Road as surplus. Part of the land, which amounts to less than an acre, will be given to Middlesex County. The rest will…

  • E.B. police charge three with setting brush fires

    EAST BRUNSWICK – A township man and two residents of South River are accused of setting a series of brush fires at various locations over the past three months. The trio was arrested May 9 after police responded to a brush fire at 7:46 p.m. in the area of Port Street and Helmetta Boulevard, near…

  • Police believe man, 70, committed suicide in lake

    EAST BRUNSWICK – A 70-year-old township man whose body was found in Farrington Lake at 4:45 a.m. yesterday is believed to have committed suicide. Family members reported the man missing at 11:22 p.m. on Tuesday, about five hours before his body was discovered by police. The man had last been seen leaving his residence at…

  • County program could mean ‘greener’ future

    Local officials meet to discuss county’s sustainability plan BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer “We are all starting together to work toward these designations. Don’t feel like you’re late out of the box.” – James Polos EDISON – Middlesex County is coming out of its industrial past and trading concrete gray for…

  • Community arts center bids come in too high

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The township may have to wait a little bit longer for its new arts center and theater. The Township Council last week rejected a set of bids for construction of the community arts center, which will replace the former Playhouse 22. The bids…

  • Residents set to battle plan for 90 senior units

    Multifamily buildings proposed at corner of Ryders, Guernsey lanes BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Ed and Anna Rella, of Tall Oaks Drive in East Brunswick, give a sign to Edward Samson, of Beacon Hill Road, last week as part of the residents’ campaign against an application to build…

  • Teen works with friends, town to plant 300 trees

    Above: East Brunswick Parks Supervisor Greg Hurley hands a seedling to Sean D’Andrea, who recently organized the planting of 300 white pines near Dallenbach Lake, off Dunhams Corner Road in East Brunswick on April 28. Below: Amy Chou and Gabrielle D’Andrea plant seedlings. EAST BRUNSWICK – Why not do something today to combat the world’s…