Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Towns team for project to repair Old Stage Rd.

    East Brunswick, Spotswood receive state funding for work BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer A heavily traveled, worn-down road that runs through both East Brunswick and Spotswood will soon be reconstructed through a team effort. Both towns have received grant funding to help with their share of repaving Old Stage Road, along…

  • Students raise big bucks in yearly jump rope event

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Above, Evan Korsak, a sixth-grader at Woodland School, participates in the Jump Rope for Heart program to raise money for the American Heart Association. Last year, Woodland raised the most money in the state. Below, Alyssa Aronson (l), 12, and Jennifer Legnetti, 11, jump together. MONROE…

  • Peace, respect promoted at interfaith conference

    BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent OLD BRIDGE — Local Muslims, representatives of other religious organizations and township and state officials took part in an interfaith conference Sunday in response to the recent controversy over the caricatures of Mohammed published in European newspapers. The conference was held at the Baitul Hadi Mosque,…

  • Media Committee will run borough’s Web site

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MILLTOWN — The borough’s Web site will no longer be run by a committee of one. After some recent controversy over material that was published on the site, borough officials and Chris Grotkopf, who has been the lone webmaster for over two years, agreed that the…

  • Settlement discussed in tree-clearing case

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A proposed settlement may save the trees that line Timber Road. Township Attorney Michael Baker recently met with representatives of Transco, a Tulsa, Okla.-based company that operates a natural gas pipeline along the East Coast and has sought to cut down about 20…

  • Photo

    SEAN DWYER Many turned out for Scout Sunday at South River’s Holy Trinity Episcopal Church last weekend to hear Congressman Rush Holt address the church. From left are Ryan Donnelly, 6, of Edison; Adam Szegeti, 10, of South River; Shelby DeSarno, 10, of Sayreville; and Alexa Horchak, 9, of South River.

  • Photographer, painter, fiber artist open gallery

    BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent Above, an oil painting by Nina Yellin is among the works on exhibit at the Academy of Music’s new art gallery in Spotswood. Below, the quilt titled “Meatloaf” is by fiber artist Kevan Lunney. Yellin, Lunney and photographer Grazina Strolia will open the exhibit on Sunday.…

  • Boro laying groundwork for 100th anniversary

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — It may be two years away, but plans are already being set in motion for the borough’s centennial anniversary. The borough is budgeting between $70,000 and $100,000 to recognize the birthday, which will likely include a one-day festival with a carnival, band, food, and…

  • Greater Media Newspapers wins five SNA awards

    “Church at Rainbow’s End” by Dennis Symons Jr. Greater Media Newspapers, Freehold, received five awards in the 2005 Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) contest. SNA is a nonprofit, professional trade association specifically serving the suburban newspaper industry. SNA’s membership is comprised of approximately 2,000 suburban newspapers published by the leading newspaper publishing companies in the…