Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Taxes steady despite park, facility projects

    2007 improvements include more ballfields and new senior center BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – Residents will not face an increase in municipal taxes this year. Mayor Richard Pucci issued his 2007 budget message Monday, stating that the owner of the average-assessed home in the township will continue to pay…

  • Spotswood wants in on open space funds

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – A county open space fund that residents pay into has yet to buy much that would benefit borough residents within their own community. Mayor Barry Zagnit said that even though Spotswood residents have paid about $1.13 million since 1996 into the Middlesex County Open…

  • Donors sought for Society Hill blood drive

    The Blood Center of New Jersey will sponsor a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 10 in the Society Hill Clubhouse, 400 Thames Drive, Old Bridge. All donors will receive a free cholesterol test. A free continental breakfast, cookies and treats, coffee, tea and juice will be served. Donors must be…

  • Local rock cover band is goin’ to the chapel

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Glass Planet, which will perform March 10 at the Unitarian Society in East Brunswick, features Norm Weiss, Art Turnbull, Kimberly Andersen, Regina Pfohl, Rich Wilkins and David Cavuto. EAST BRUNSWICK – – It’s not often you see a rock band play in a church. But for…

  • Purim event

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN David Grossman, of Monroe, discusses his experience in the Normandy invasion in World War II during Sunday’s Purim event sponsored by the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe. The “Purim in the Shtetl” event was held at the Jamesburg Elks Lodge and re-created a scene reminiscent of a small village in eastern Europe.

  • Homes get new values after townwide reval

    Residents’ new share of property taxes will be revealed this summer BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer HELMETTA – Borough homes have new assessed values based on a townwide revaluation completed last year. And as a result, many of them will see a change in their share of the property tax burden.…

  • Stars and stripes

    Colin Joyce, of Boy Scout Troop 223, of East Brunswick, refurbished and decorated a retired U.S. postal mail box, converting it into an official flag drop station. Residents can now discard used and worn American flags at the township’s recycling center, Dunhams Corner Road, and they will be officially retired via ceremony and disposed of…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Spring may be around the corner, but ice fishing is still going strong in East Brunswick, as could be seen on the frozen Farrington Lake Sunday morning.

  • Residents to vote on construction in Sept.

    Milltown schools overdue for repairs, improvements BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer School officials are taking action to remedy areas of Milltown’s two schools that have been long in need of repair. Residents will be asked in a September referendum to approve construction estimated to cost in the vicinity of $6 million…