Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • ‘Same sweet kid,’ but now he’s a movie star

    Jesse Eisenberg, 23, tells local audience about his roles in major films BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent PHOTOSBYSCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: East Brunswick native Jesse Eisenberg takes questions from the audience prior to a screening of “The Squid and the Whale,” in which he co-starts, at the township’s library Sunday. Below: Linda…

  • New Jersey’s standardbred industry on shaky ground

    Breeders call for bigger purses and slot machines at the racetracks BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Horses graze in the pasture of Fair Winds Farm in Upper Freehold Dec. 1. UPPER FREEHOLD — While the annual standardbred horse sale in Harrisburg, Pa., on Nov. 3-8 set record numbers…

  • Damage minimal after car strikes front of store

    HELMETTA — A convenience store was closed for part of the day Friday after a customer accidentally crashed into the front of the building. The accident occurred at 9:42 a.m. when a 1992 Honda Accord being driven by Lauren Lopez, 21, of Monroe, hit the front door area of Helmetta Foods, located at Main Street…

  • Forum probes the pitfalls of life as a teenage girl

    MADD founder tells county students they can change their world BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer MONROE — Girls just wanna have fun. And learn. And be social. And share their experiences. The third annual Young Women’s Conference, hosted by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence of Middlesex County and…

  • Demolition approaches on Helmetta water tank

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff A worker for a phone company is lifted to the top of the new water tower in Helmetta last week. The last of the cellular equipment from the old tower is still being moved. HELMETTA — With the last of three cell-phone companies…

  • Scout goes to bat for oft-dreaded creature

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Keith Obzut, of East Brunswick, is pictured with Milltown Mayor Gloria Bradford during the recent sign presentation at the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership headquarters in Milltown. Thanks to Keith Obzut, Milltown has gone batty.The 16-year-old Eagle Scout decided to earn the highest Scout rank attainable by…

  • Dozens sick as E. coli outbreak hits county

    Public health officials said yesterday that 26 people, most of them children, are believed to have contracted the E. coli bacterial infection in Middlesex County. Those people have either been hospitalized or otherwise sought medical attention in the county, and 24 tested positive for E. coli; two are pending lab results. The suspected source is…

  • Chabad House plans first permanent home

    Facility would provide space for synagogue, activities, classes, shop BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Rabbi Yehuda Spritzer lights the menorah last December outside the Concordia Shopping Center in Monroe. MONROE – Saying it would be “the nicest building in Monroe,” Rabbi Yehuda Spritzer has big plans indeed for the…

  • Former E.B. man killed by alleged drunken driver

    Eric J. Ng, 22, was biking on a path next to Hudson River BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – A 22-year-old township native was killed Friday when the bicycle he was riding along a path in Manhattan was struck by an allegedly drunken driver. Eric J. Ng, who was…