Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • To make the season bright

    More than 100 local children in need will receive about three gifts each thanks to a recent drive by the Kiwanis Club of Rossmoor and the Friends of the Monroe Senior Center. Pictured with the gifts are Monroe Office on Aging Director Bonnie Leibowitz and Kiwanis Club member Art Moulton.

  • Frosty’s birthday

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Above: Magician Bruce Bray gets a reaction from the crowd during a performance Dec. 14 at the Spotswood Public Library. The event, “Happy Birthday Frosty,” also featured an appearance by the famous snowman himself. At right: Children wait their turn to meet Frosty.

  • Santa’s helpers

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: Maria Karcz-ewski, of Helmetta, places a large bag of gifts in a car for the St. Vincent de Paul Society of East Brunswick, whose representatives came to Spotswood’s Appleby School Friday to pick up more than 200 gifts. The items were purchased with funds raised by the students for…

  • Feeding the children

    Middlesex County College Purchasing Director David Fricke, of Milltown, was one of a group of college staff and students who volunteered for three evenings in December at the Feed the Children distribution center in North Brunswick. The group packed food and hygiene supplies for needy people in New York City. During the three-day period, Middlesex…

  • Pro-Lynch letters fail to move judge in sentencing

    Former state senator gets 39 months for deal with S. Bruns. sand company BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Former state Sen. John Lynch stood and waited to hear his sentence Tuesday. When it came, he didn’t weep, gnash his teeth or embrace despairing relatives. The disgraced former senator’s courtroom theatrics consisted,…

  • Soldiers’ release called for at Hanukkah event

    Wife of captive Israeli soldier speaks to crowd in Monroe BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer JESSICA SMITH Floyd Langher (clockwise from bottom left), Levi Slonim, Stanley Edelman, Mendel Zaklikovsky, Schmueli Slonim, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky, Martin Suchin and Edward Thompson dance and sing during Sunday’s Hanukkah event. MONROE — The Chabad Jewish…

  • Falling tree kills man, 28

    JAMESBURG — A Monroe man was killed last week when a large tree fell on him during a tree removal job he was working on with his brother’s company on Woodland Road in the borough. Jerrold Love, 28, of Buckelew Avenue, was working with his brother and father to remove a giant, 2-foot-thick red oak…

  • To our readers

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  • Traffic signal coming to prominent location

    Work at Perrineville, Schoolhouse roads coming in spring BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE — The township has been given the green light to put up a traffic signal at the heavily-trafficked intersection of Perrineville and Schoolhouse roads. The roadways will also be widened approaching the intersection, with new curbing put…