Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Three inducted into SRHS Wall of Fame

    Scientist, educator, football player honored at alma mater BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Russell Krug (l-r), Al Losiewicz and Kenny Jackson are pictured during the recent South River High School Wall of Fame induction ceremony. As a teenager, Russell Krug rode his bicycle from South River to Princeton University regularly to…

  • Residents asked to help find E.B.’s biggest trees

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Who says older isn’t better? When it comes to being the biggest tree in town, age will be a key factor. Trees, most of them anyway, have been able to withstand the onslaught of highways and modern development, and the East Brunswick Environmental…

  • Alligator is confiscated from Spotswood man’s tub

    SPOTSWOOD – Police and state wildlife officials confiscated an alligator from a borough man’s bathtub last week and charged the man for having the dangerous animal. Two police officers, having received an anonymous complaint about an alligator being kept as a pet in a residence on Main Street, responded to the home of Steven M.…

  • Library expansion work to kick off this spring

    Children’s reading area to be expanded; more services being planned A sketch provided by the borough of South River shows the proposed look of the expanded public library. SOUTH RIVER – Expansion plans for the South River Library on Appleby Avenue are on track as the design phase nears completion and the construction bidding process…

  • Fiber Revolution show runs through March 21

    SPOTSWOOD – Fiber art from nationally recognized artists’ group Fiber Revolution is on display as part of a new show at the Academy of Music on Main Street. “Art Concentrated: A Big Show of Petit Art” opened earlier this month and will run through March 21 at the gallery inside the academy, located at 508…

  • Caregiver indicted in theft

    SOUTH RIVER – A borough woman who stands accused of taking more than $90,000 from an elderly man she was hired to care for was indicted last week by a Middlesex County grand jury. Margarida De Jesus, 32, was indicted on one count each of theft by deception and attempted theft by deception, both second-degree…

  • “Radiant Suns,” a fiber art work by Carol Sara Schepps, is among the works that will be on display at the Academy of Music on Main Street.

  • For the Record

    The long-term care center proposed in Old Bridge by Middlesex County officials would be for nursing and rehabilitative care, not for tuberculosis patients as was stated in a Jan. 11 story. Also, the county is pursuing a new Academy for Medical Science and Information Technology in Woodbridge, not at Middlesex County College.

  • SCOTT FRIEDMAN

    Taylor Asciolla, 8, of Helmetta, takes part in a dry ice experiment with “Genius” Jessica Constandelis during the borough’s Winter Mad Science Show at the Holy Trinity Church Hall, Main Street, on Sunday afternoon.