Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Library love

    CHRIS KELLY staff Lisa Steinfeld, of East Brunswick, sorts the many books she was buying at the 32nd annual Bargain Book and Media Sale last week. The weeklong sale was sponsored by the East Brunswick Friends of the Library and held at the Brunswick Square Mall.

  • Capital budget allocates Heavenly Farms funds

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The township’s capital budget for 2006 is slated to cost about $5.9 million, including money for more work at Heavenly Farms. Recent discussions on the budget focused largely on improvements planned for Heavenly Farms, the 127-acre site the township purchased on Cranbury Road.…

  • Oral histories offer a look at Metuchen’s past

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Charlie Butler told it like it was. “The United States treated me like an unfaithful woman,” he said. “Somebody you love, love, love, but they don’t love you.” Butler’s story, recorded in March 1997, was one of several black oral histories presented by the…

  • Businesses burglarized in Summerhill Road plaza

    EAST BRUNSWICK – Police are investigating the burglaries of five businesses in a Summerhill Road strip mall. The East Side Hair Salon was broken into sometime between 4:30 p.m. Saturday and 5:45 a.m. Monday. Suspects pried open a rear door to the business and, once inside, removed an unknown amount of money from a cash…

  • Middlesex County buys medical examiner’s building

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO The new Middlesex County Medical Examiner’s Office opened on Livingston Avenue in North Brunswick last summer. NORTH BRUNSWICK – On March 16, Middlesex County completed its purchase of the 17,990-square-foot facility on Livingston Avenue that houses the new Medical Examiner’s Office, according to a…

  • In the Service

    Mark D. Gicherman, formerly of Monroe, recently was promoted to staff sergeant with the U.S. Army, active duty. He is stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., as part of the 10th Mountain Division. A 10-year Army veteran, Gicherman has served at Fort Hood, Texas, Giessen Army Depot, Germany, and Fort Drum. He has been deployed to…

  • Residents critique three designs for J&J property

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The idea behind “the more, the merrier” definitely applied last Thursday night as roughly 85 residents had the opportunity to overlook and critique three preliminary design layouts for the Johnson & Johnson property as formulated by Hillier Architecture of Princeton. As part of…

  • Greater Media Inc. to observe 50th

    Greater Media Inc., Boston, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in broadcasting throughout 2006. Owned by the Bordes family, the company was originally founded in 1956 by Yale classmates Peter A. Bordes and Joseph Rosenmiller. Greater Media Inc., whose corporate headquarters is in Braintree, Mass., is one of the largest and few remaining privately held…

  • Rape counselor: Teen girls most at risk

    Counselor tells students alcohol, binge drinking often lead to assault BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Women between the ages of 15 and 19 are four times more likely to become victims of sexual assault than women in any other age group, according to Ellen Bloom, acting coordinator of a rape care…