Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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New cantor brings a bit of Broadway to E.B.
Marnie Camhi EAST BRUNSWICK – As a high school student, Marnie Camhi, the new cantor at Temple B’nai Shalom, Fern Road, showed off her musical gifts on Broadway in the children’s chorus for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” even meeting the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber in the process. It was also about that time…
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Local gallery to open new exhibition Sunday
Soto-Canino’s works inspired by Asian art traditions, black dog One of the works that is part of “Black on Black, Improvisations With Chinese Ink and a Black Dog.” SPOTSWOOD – The works of artist Ana Soto-Canino will be the focus of a new show in the art gallery at the Academy of Music on Main…
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Boy needs votes for chance at $10K
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Michael Corace SPOTSWOOD – Eight-year-old Michael Corace has been selected as a semifinalist in a national contest after coming up with an idea for a new video game. With a chance to take the top prize, which includes a $10,000 scholarship, Michael and his family are…
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Festival will celebrate Native Amer. culture
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – The Leni Lenape are coming back to Monroe. On Sunday from 12:30-4 p.m., members of the Unami sect of the Lenape nation will come from Allentown, Pa., to revisit the land where their tribe once settled. It is the township’s third annual Heritage Festival,…
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Resident: Town should have stopped road plan
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Residents upset with a new school driveway being built behind their homes last week took their concerns to a new venue, the Township Council. Those who live on Rachel Drive, adjacent to ongoing construction at the Hammarskjold Middle School, recently reached a compromise…
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Emergency services get help from ICU
Robert Wood Johnson mobile unit to accompany first aid crews BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – Residents of the township and surrounding towns such as Jamesburg and Helmetta are being provided greater medical support in emergency situations. A new mobile intensive care unit (MICU) provided by Robert Wood Johnson University…
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Many will ‘stir the pot’ to mobilize women voters
EAST BRUNSWICK – Dozens of women in New Jersey will join thousands around the country who plan to gather around kitchen tables, at coffee shops, in break rooms and in bars Oct. 10 to talk about the issues that matter most to them and urge women to vote Nov. 7. These “Stirring the Pot” gatherings…
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County dedicates park with numerous facilities
OLD BRIDGE – It’s been nine years since Middlesex County purchased some 1,728 acres of land west of Route 18 that was once proposed for development by the Olympia & York company. Most of that land remains open space, known as the John A. Phillips Open Space Preserve, named in honor of the late county…
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New county work force to improve Old Bridge park
Members of the newly formed Middlesex County Conservation Corps will take to Old Bridge’s John A. Phillips Preserve on Saturdays this fall, cleaning up trash and removing invasive plant species. The corps, which includes a paid staff of high school and college students along with adult volunteers, is being administered by the Middlesex County Department…
