Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Zoom-zoom-zoom

    JEFF GRANIT staff Jim Fitzgerald (r), of Monroe, takes a look at some of the vehicles on display during Monday’s fourth annual Electra-Glide In Blue motorcycle and custom car show on West Railroad Avenue in Jamesburg.

  • Friends delivering help to ailing postal worker

    Tricky tray set for tomorrow to help family in time of need BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer John Droppa, an employee at the Monroe Post Office, has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments since being diagnosed with leukemia five years ago and is awaiting a stem cell transplant. His friends and colleagues are…