Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Boro gathers funds for Wyoming Ave. project

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The borough will receive $300,000 in state funding to offset the cost of road work on Wyoming Avenue. Mayor Barry Zagnit was pleased to receive the N.J. Department of Transportation grant for the work, which will include roadway paving, curb installation and drainage improvements.…

  • Transportation demands drive shuttle expansion

    County brings new bus service to Old Bridge and South River BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent Senior communities in Old Bridge and South River are getting on board with the Middlesex County Community Shuttle Program, which is expanding to include stops in the township and nearby borough. “We’re very excited,” said Nancy Reich,…

  • Stollen back as prez. on Spotswood council

    Drozd, Barlow begin their first full terms on governing body BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Editor’s note: An incomplete version of this story was inadvertently published in the July 13 Sentinel. The complete article is now being run to correct the record. SPOTSWOOD – Changes approved by voters in the borough’s…

  • STEVEN M. BARON Cadette Girl Scout Troop 1036 members Allison Pron, 12, Shannon Vaivada, 12, Carla Palermo, 13, and Gabriella LaFata, 14, wash cars Sunday at the Monroe Recreation Center to benefit an abused women’s center. The funds raised will provide a holiday meal and gifts for women and children at the center.

  • Boy, family members charged in friend’s death

    Authorities: Youth did not know gun was loaded BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer An 11-year-old East Brunswick boy accused of firing the gun that killed Alexander Khoudiakov, 12, was charged yesterday in the June 26 death. Though the 11-year-old pointed the gun at his friend and pulled the trigger intentionally, he did so under the…

  • Snuff mill being tested for lead paint dangers

    Freeholder candidate calls for cty. oversight of vacant factories BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Correspondent Concerns about lead paint at the historic snuff mill site in Helmetta have county health officials and the redeveloper of the mill testing to gauge the danger. The Middlesex County Department of Public Health and Kaplan Cos., the site’s owner and developer,…

  • Garbage cleanup

    STEVEN M. BARON The top of a waste management truck had to be cut off by the East Brunswick Independent Fire Co. yesterday to remove the driver after the truck overturned on Route 18 north at Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Trans-Med workers transported the driver to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Police…

  • Grandparents on infant duty as mom, dad serve

    BY SHARON LEFF Correspondent BY SHARON LEFFCorrespondent Sara Ravaioli, 6 months old, is being cared for by her grandparents, Maria and Gerald Ravaioli, an East Brunswick police officer, while mom and dad serve in Iraq. With her son and daughter in-law deployed in Iraq on active military duty, Maria Ravaioli awaits their safe return to…

  • Stollen back as prez. on Spotswood council

    Drozd, Barlow begin their first full terms on governing body BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – Changes approved by voters in the borough’s nonpartisan election took effect Monday. And members of the Borough Council took it one step further by electing Curt Stollen as council president. Stollen in recent years…