Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Rally for a cure

    Women from the Forsgate Country Club celebrate after completing 54 holes of golf during the club’s Rally for a Cure Golf Marathon July 13 in Monroe. The 28 participants, including four breast cancer survivors, raised $30,000 for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Pictured are (l-r) Gloria Wasserman, Karen Tremarco, Leslie Meltzer, Malissa Franke,…

  • Dems look to bring bike park to So. River

    Sides debate whether money would be better spent on existing parks BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER – Borough officials are setting the wheels in motion to bring a new bike park to the borough. The bike park would be 70 feet by 100 feet in size and would become…

  • Second round of bids sought for Ave. K Park

    Rec. facilities will be developed in 3 phases, starting this year BY Christine Grimaldi Staff Writer MONROE – When it comes to planning for Avenue K Park, the funding and phases of development must fit together like the matching pieces of a puzzle. The municipal budget had allocated about $800,000 for Phase I of construction…

  • Up in flames

    RYAN D. FENSTERMAKER An explosion at a home on Hershey Road in East Brunswick Monday afternoon destroyed the garage as well as a classic car, reported to be a 1938 Buick Special. Three teenagers who were home at the time heard an explosion and went outside to find the garage engulfed in flames. Brookview and…

  • All invited to Night Out on the town

    Residents can learn a thing or two about crime and have some fun along the way next week when local police departments take part in National Night Out Against Crime. Events will take place Aug. 1 in local towns including East Brunswick, Spotswood and Milltown. National Night Out, which is in its 24th year, is…

  • Monroe forges ahead on plans

    BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer MONROE – The construction of a new high school, approved by voters at a cost of $82.9 million in 2003, will likely cost the district another $20 million. Though the final price tag is anyone’s guess, Board of Education architects have informed the district there will…

  • A new beginning for E.B.’s charity players

    Troupe will present ‘Way Off Broadway’ Aug. 4-6 in E. Bruns. BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The township’s Young Adult Charity Players theater group has a new play and a new identity as well. The troupe, which raises money to help local disabled children at Camp Daisy, in…

  • Scout project a welcome treat at senior complex

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Members of Girl Scout Troop 1759, of Spotswood, put the finishing touches on the “welcome garden” they created at Woodmere and Crescent Park senior housing. SPOTSWOOD – Once the members of Girl Scout Troop 1759 got to know residents at the Woodmere and Crescent Park senior…

  • Historians have a new home in old farmhouse

    BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent PHOTOS BYTOM SPERDUTO Above: East Brunswick Historical Society President Estelle Goldsmith discusses township and national history Sunday at the society’s permanent home on Milltown Road. At right: A painting on display at the museum shows the L.J. Smith farmhouse on a snowy day before the adjacent…