Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Council, media panel at odds over Web site
Debate centers on action to eliminate site’s opinion page BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Call it a “Catch-22.”In response to recent controversy over material published on the borough’s Web site, the Milltown Borough Council Monday took action that sparked a debate between members of the council and a group of volunteers…
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Murphy recognized as Principal of the Year
BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer Robert Murphy EAST BRUNSWICK – Award winners commonly book celebratory vacations to Walt Disney World, but East Brunswick High School Principal Robert Murphy had to cancel such plans after receiving the unexpected honor of New Jersey Secondary Principal of the Year. Murphy deferred his trip, a…
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Cuts may be at expense of four new teachers
South River council reduces school tax hike from 28 to 21 cents BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer South Rover officials cut the defeated school tax levy by almost $300,000, recommending that four proposed middle school teaching positions be eliminated. The Board of Education adopted the Borough Council’s recommendations at its May…
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Local performer delights in country music’s roots
Mark Miklos and band to perform at Six Flags with Lee Ann Womack BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Those looking for a reminder of the area’s rural past need look no further than the music of township resident Mark Miklos. Miklos sings the kind of bluegrass and honky-tonk…
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First-responders
STEVEN M. BARON A Herbert Drive man was injured around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday when he was struck on his driveway by part of a 60-foot-tall tree that fell from a neighbor’s yard. The 63-year-old man was able to jump away but was struck and received an injury to his right leg. The East Brunswick Independent…
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Youth shows it’s never too soon to get involved
Still 15, Joe Reid is ready to announce candidacy for office BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Joe Reid HELMETTA – Joe Reid is a fixture at the borough’s firehouse, he’s the town’s go-to-guy for all things recreation, and he has an exemplary attendance record at Borough Council meetings. But all that…
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Show will aid Holocaust Resource Center efforts
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE – From literary to literal, from history to their story, the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe has set this year’s goal for the new Holocaust Resource Center. Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky hopes to videotape the personal accounts of local Holocaust survivors to add to the more…
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Novelist explores future world of humans, A.I.
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Even though his new book is science fiction, its social commentary is based on anything but fantasy. Township resident Gary Starta’s “What Are You Made Of?” probes the possibility that in the future the definition of life may have to be reexamined. In…
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Boro reduces tax hike after a bit of nip/tuck
Superintendent says some programs are unsafe due to boro’s cuts BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MILLTOWN – Borough and school officials have agreed to take 1.5 cents off the school tax rate hike. The decision came after the Borough Council and Board of Education met to discuss cutting expenses from the…
