Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • New officers on board at E. Brunswick P.D.

    EAST BRUNSWICK – Two new officers have joined the township’s police force. Maria Herrera, 24, and Adi Wanounou, 23, were both sworn in as patrol officers on March 31. The additions to the police department follow a number of changes made in February, including the retirements in of Capt. Keith Wilkerson and Detective Ronald Keaveney;…

  • Dad, gram help mom give birth in kitchen

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The Petrocelli home got an unexpected visit at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. It was no burglar, however, just the newest member of the family. A bright, new baby girl, named Emma, was born right inside the home on Ross Court, as Jennifer Petrocelli, 25,…

  • Music school to provide concert for playground

    SPOTSWOOD – Academy of Music on Main Street and Kids Play, a committee of borough parents that is raising funds for a Schoenly School playground, will hold a benefit concert with all proceeds going to the playground. Kids Play must raise approximately $75,000 for the project at Schoenly, whose playground was removed to make way…

  • Eleven youths arrested after shot fired at mall

    Police set April 19 meeting for parents’ questions on gangs EAST BRUNSWICK – Eleven township juveniles between 14 and 16 years old were arrested last week after one of them reportedly fired a gun outside the Brunswick Square Mall. The arrests stem from an apparent long-standing feud between two groups of students from Churchill Junior…

  • Boro considers ban on gas-powered boats

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MILLTOWN – Gentlemen, remove your engines. That’s the message to anyone wishing to take a boat ride on the borough’s Mill Pond, which officials hope to keep free of any gasoline or motor oil. The Borough Council on Monday introduced an ordinance that would prohibit the…

  • Hide and seek

    At left, Taitum McCloskey, 6, picks up an egg for her basket at Monroe Township’s annual Egg Hunt at the Community Center, Monmouth Road, April 1. Above, Juliana Rolfe, 4, shows off the result of her efforts. Right, Adrianna Laezza, 3, of Monroe, holds onto her findings. PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff

  • Matzah fun

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Matzah mensch Sholomber Ginsberg blows into a bowl of wheat kernals to remove the husks during the Matzah Bakery event held by Chabad of East Brunswick at ShopRite Sunday. Watching him are Mikayla, 5, and brother Avi Elk, 3, Amanda Gold, 5, and Ephraim Ness, 3.

  • Suspect leads police on chase

    EAST BRUNSWICK – A township man is accused of twice using his car to ram a police officer’s patrol vehicle as officers chased the man through five towns. The pursuit resulted in the arrest of Nicholas G. Janovsky, 20, at 12:36 a.m. Tuesday on charges of eluding and aggravated assault on a police officer. Patrolman…

  • Man accused of trying to snatch purse is sought

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER – An attempted robbery was reported on Appleby Avenue at 12:26 p.m. Monday. A 30-year-old woman walking home in a residential section of the borough was approached by an assailant walking toward her on the sidewalk. She told police that she crossed the street…