Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Local seniors, officials fear state bills’ impact
Legislation would regulate homeowners’ association practices BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Monroe MONROE – A group of township senior citizens have banded together to fight for their rights, and for their money. When Hadassah Linfield, of the Greenbriar at Whittingham community, heard about two state bills that would affect residents of…
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French posters at center of Zimmerli exhibition
The 1893 lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “Divan Japonais,” is part of the Zimmerli exhibition, which opens Saturday in New Brunswick. NEW BRUNSWICK – The Zimmerli Art Museum recently opened the largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date dealing with French posters from the early 19th century Romantic period to the Art Nouveau style of…
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Local nature notes site has many taking note
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – If all its awards were trophies, the Environmental Commission’s mantel would be getting full by now. The latest award comes courtesy of the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC), which recognized the local group’s Web site, www.njnaturenotes.com, with the 2006 Environmental Achievement…
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Fools for Christ bring laughs to J’burg church
Pastor’s clown group has been entertaining audiences for 18 years BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Clowning around in church is typically frowned upon, but some members of the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church consider it their mission. Fools for Christ encouraged the crowd to laugh, applaud and be awed by their performance of…
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Lucky winners
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Left, video gamers eagerly wait to purchase the new PlayStation 3 as dawn breaks Friday morning, three days after they began camping outside the Target store on Ryders Lane in Milltown. Above, after the long wait, Peter Bonakis of Staten Island, Vina Nguyen of Edison, and Jason DeMarko of East Brunswick…
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Office building OK’d next to real estate business
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MILLTOWN – A new office building will be going up on South Main Street next spring. The Planning Board granted approval to Main Street Real Estate to subdivide the property and construct a building for commercial office use at its meeting Nov. 8. The 2,160-square-foot building…
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Chiropractor honored for Olympic activities
Dr. Ira Shapiro (r) accepts the Special Service Award from Dr. Sigmund Miller, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Chiropractors. OLD BRIDGE – Dr. Ira A. Shapiro, director of the Plaza Chiropractic Center, Englishtown Road, has been honored by the Association of New Jersey Chiropractors (ANJC) with a Special Service Award. The honor,…
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County jail visits now done by videoconference
Officials say change will stop contraband from getting in, cut costs BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Freeholder Christopher Rafano demonstrates how to use the new video visitation system on Oct. 31. The Middlesex County Adult Correction Center unveiled a new video visitation system, the first of its kind in New Jersey,…
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‘Support system’ keeps up son’s spirits in Iraq
E.B. native dedicated to serving his country, writing his mother BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer PHOTOSBY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Michele Jabin, of East Brunswick, holds a photograph of her son, Josh, a U.S. Marine Corps captain now stationed in Iraq, during the township’s Veterans Day observance Saturday morning at the municipal complex.…
