Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Planning Board OKs site plans for Village
New retail center will bring stores, hotel to Route 33 BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – After months of sometimes contentious wrangling, The Village at Manalapan retail development has received preliminary site plan approval. On May 25, the Manalapan Planning Board voted 7-2 in favor of preliminary approval following an…
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Route 33 task force to hold hearings soon
Panel reviewing development plans, results of studies BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE – Residents may soon get a good look at what developers are proposing for the future of the township’s portion of Route 33. A task force assembled a year ago has been overseeing development concepts and traffic and…
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Suspect sought
East Brunswick police released this sketch Wednesday of a suspect who allegedly rammed his vehicle numerous times into an unoccupied vehicle at McDonald’s on Route 18 at 2:20 a.m. Feb. 15. The unoccupied Dodge Colt, which was totaled, belonged to an employee of the restaurant who refused to serve the suspect after he reportedly gave…
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Snuff mill, park site make ‘endangered’ list
Group says properties are both irreplaceable and in jeopardy BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Three Middlesex County properties are among the “Ten Most Endangered Sites” in the state, according to a list released last month by Preservation New Jersey. The former Helme Tobacco Co. snuff mill in Helmetta, the Bethel Mission…
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Honoring our fallen soldiers
Above, members of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets march during Memorial Day services held Sunday at the veterans’ monument at the East Brunswick municipal complex. At right, U.S. Marine Joe Castelluccio participates the services, while below, a member of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets stands at attention. PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff
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Residents: Street peaceful after business’ departure
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – A business that residents considered the bane of McGuire Street is no more. And residents are hoping the township will in the future prohibit trucking businesses from locating there, as has happened on three occasions. The latest was Nieroda Transport, which as a…
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ICC students emulate artists of many lands
Paintings, hats, ethnic foods and music mark annual art show BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Appalachian dancer Caitlin Neumyer, 7, and brother George, 10, as a torero (bullfighter), both of Jamesburg, take part in the annual Student Art Show at Immaculate Conception School in Spotswood May 25. SPOTSWOOD…
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Redevelopment plan may be scaled back
South River officials want several properties removed from list BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer South River’s controversial redevelopment plan may soon be revised to omit several properties whose owners resisted the concept. Mayor Robert Szegeti called a special meeting of the Borough Council Wednesday to consider changes in the plan, though…
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Teacher mixes science and song in South River
BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Leigh Russ sings and plays a science lesson for students in one of his classes at South River Middle School last Friday. SOUTH RIVER – What “is a big ball of gas; made up mostly of hydrogen; which gives it quite a blast?”…
