Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Community lends a hand to car accident survivor

    Events scheduled to raise money for So. Brunswick teen’s medical expenses Roxanne Guzman and her mother, Mirian. Roxanne was in a car accident involving a bus in November. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Ever since her car accident in November, Roxanne Guzman, 19, has been under the constant care of her mother, Mirian. As a result of…

  • District 2 fire board against consolidation

    Township panel to present findings early next year BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer When it comes to taxes, it helps to have the scales tipped in your favor. For those Monroe Township residents, eliminating the disparity in fire district taxes may raise their annual payments. While a township consolidation committee looks…

  • Council members differ on full-time mayor idea

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Should the mayor’s job be full time? That’s the question that continues to be broached in discussions at Township Council meetings. Councilwoman Christi Calvano, the governing body’s lone Republican, said she feels the job should be bumped up from part time. Calvano, who…

  • Get ready

    SCOTT PILLING staff Evan Brown and Sarah Herman, both 3, get some apron help from Marissa Silvers (left) and Judith Sason before the campers at the East Brunswick Jewish Center opened a one-day bake shop Friday to raise funds for the purchase of a protective vest for a young soldier stationed in Northern Israel.

  • Sisters find inspiration in annual Avon walk

    East Brunswick teacher, 25, participates in memory of her mother BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer Nicole (l) and Danielle Haggiag, of Old Bridge, pose for a picture on the Brooklyn Bridge during last year’s Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, held each fall in New York…

  • Aid eases Spotswood tax increase by a cent

    Council adopts tab with average $119 municipal tax hike BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The municipal tax rate will increase by 5 cents this year under a budget adopted in its final form Tuesday. The borough learned recently it will receive $100,000 in state extraordinary aid for 2006, enough…

  • Hiroshima survivors detail war-time reality

    Speaker tells of bomb’s impact on family before Monroe audience BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Yoshio Sato, a member of the Kanagawa A-Bomb Sufferers Association, shares a firsthand account of the Hiroshima attack to a meeting of the Monroe Township Chapter of the National Coalition for Peace Action…

  • Large retail plaza proposed for Rt. 33

    Four-building complex was scaled back from an earlier application BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer A developer has returned with a revamped proposal for a large shopping center on Route 33. Pending Monroe Township Planning Board approval, Monroe Town Plaza would be located at the southwest corner of Route 33 and Butcher…

  • Locks of love

    Jessica Meagher (l) and Alyssa Colon, 8-year-old residents of Spotswood, recently had their hair cut at Hair Pins Salon in Monroe and donated to Locks of Love, an organization that provides hairpieces to children dealing with medical hair loss. The girls were inspired to donate their hair after watching an “Extreme Home Makeover” episode involving…