Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Jamesburg Council

    Brian M. Grimes (D) Grimes, 26, has a wife, Michelle, and a baby due Nov. 24. A high school history teacher, Grimes has a bachelor’s degree in history with a music minor from Rutgers College, Rutgers University class of 2002. He has lived in Jamesburg one year and three months. He is a member of…

  • Classmates still cheering for SRHS, 50 years later

    The South River High School class of 1956 cheerleading team posed during a recent reunion in the same order as a shot from Thanksgiving Day 1955 at Rutgers Stadium. Left to right in both are Jane (Hala) Davis, Rita (Romanowski) Molnar, Connie (Goletz) Marchesi and Marilyn (Palomba) Draper. SOUTH RIVER – It’s a half-century since…

  • East Brunswick Township Council

    Suzanne LeBlon Blum (R) Blum, 39, has a husband Dennis and two children, ages 5 and 3. Blum, who is employed as a schoolteacher, was born and raised in East Brunswick and returned to the township in 2004. She is a graduate of East Brunswick High School and received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education…

  • Tickets available for storytelling fest

    John McCutcheon will be the featured performer at the East Brunswick Friends of the Library’s 14th annual James Hess Folklore and Storytelling Festival set for 8 p.m. on Nov. 18 and 2 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the library, Jean Walling Civic Center. Tickets are on sale at the library circulation desk. The Nov. 18…

  • Wetlands park will be created next to 41 homes

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – Some 41 single-family homes will be built alongside 71 acres of preserved open space under a development plan approved last week. The Planning Board gave preliminary approval Oct. 26 to Georgetown Estates LLC/Rocky Brook with the stipulation that the open space be turned over…

  • Craft fair on agenda at E.B. Senior Center

    The annual East Brunswick Senior Center Craft Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 4 at the senior center, Jean Walling Civic Center Drive. The event will feature holiday gifts and decorations; handmade quilted articles; knitted and crocheted baby items, afghans, etc.; and homemade baked goods. For more information, call…

  • Milltown cleanup scheduled for Nov. 5

    The Milltown Environmental Commission, the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership, New Jersey Community Water Watch and Milltown Girl Scouts will sponsor an environmental cleanup around the borough waterways beginning at noon on Nov. 5. Volunteers will meet at the police entrance at Milltown Borough Hall, 39 Washington Ave. Refreshments will be provided. Participants should wear stout…

  • Musicians to rock for a cause Saturday

    South River benefit features Spook Handy, seven other artists BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Local musicians will perform this weekend for a developmentally disabled man who recently underwent costly surgery. Annette Cunnius, of Sayreville, organized the event to assist her older brother, Daniel, 48, who was born and…

  • Sinagra: U.S. must finish important work in Iraq

    Joe Sinagra Joe Sinagra says that he’s just an ordinary guy, and thus he understands the issues important to the ordinary guy. “I believe I represent the average person. I’m not a born politician, I don’t have a war chest of $2 million. I go to work, I pay my bills, I pay my mortgage,…