Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Spotswood budget calls for nearly 10-cent hike

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – Residents would see their school taxes rise by 9.7 cents per $100 of assessed valuation based on this year’s school budget. The Board of Education adopted a 2007-08 school budget that, if approved by voters Tuesday, would raises the tax rate by about 6…

  • Official’s suicide has many asking, ‘Why?’

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – Township Construction Official Ronald Appleby, 60, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on his front lawn last Thursday. Police and emergency workers responded to Appleby’s home on Geraldine Drive after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor who found his body around…

  • Jeep driver reportedly cut off victims’ car

    Friends, strangers pay respects at scene of accident on Route 18 BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Emergency personnel work at the scene of a car accident that claimed the lives of two teenagers Sunday alongside Route 18 in East Brunswick. EAST BRUNSWICK – Friends of Jon Mustafa’s who…

  • Fundraisers

    April 13 + Art Auction, sponsored by the South River Public Library board of trustees, in conjunction with Ria Mar Restaurant, doors open at 6:30 p.m. for advance viewing, event begins at 8 p.m., at Ria Mar, 25 Whitehead Ave., South River. Marlin Art, New York, will offer approximately 160 pieces of art, memorabilia and…

  • Group seeks out E.B.’s breeding hawks, owls

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer PHOTOSBYJEFF GRANIT staff Above: A red-tailed hawk takes off from a tree in a neighborhood near East Brunswick High School last week. The breeding bird is among the initial findings in the township’s first annual Raptor Survey. At left: An owl sits in his nest high…

  • Survivors, community set for commemoration

    Annual Holocaust remembrance program to be held Sunday BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent MONROE – The public is invited to participate in the statewide Yom HaShoah (Holocaust) Commemoration program to be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Monroe Township High School’s Marasco Performing Arts Center. The event, a collaborative effort of…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Friends, loved ones and other visitors set up a memorial shrine at the site where two teenagers were killed in an accident Sunday. Seen paying respects Tuesday are Vladimir Prokopchuk (l-r), 17, his mother, Lesia, and Danielle Barker, all of East Brunswick. A photo on display at the shrine shows Jon Mustafa…

  • Teachers recall two mature, caring teens who enjoyed life

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer A junior at East Brunswick High School and a recent graduate were killed Sunday in an accident that may have been caused by road rage on the part of another driver. As authorities investigate witness accounts and other evidence near the accident scene on Route 18,…

  • Fundraisers

    April 5 + Book Sale, sponsored by the Spotswood Public Library, during regular hours, at the library, 548 Main St. Hardcover books, paperbacks, children’s books, audiocassettes, VHS videos. Paperbacks sell for 50 cents each or three for $1, hardcovers for 75 cents and up, VHS videos for $1. All-You-Can-Carry for $5. All sales final. Proceeds…