Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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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…
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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,…
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Boro gets unexpected $40K for playground
Officials hope to break ground at Schoenly School in April BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD –– Dream it and it will come. That may be the new motto for the Kids Play committee, a group of volunteers that has been raising funds to build a playground at Schoenly School. It…
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Boro moving forward on Reid St. building
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SOUTH RIVER — Despite some revisions to the plan, work to renovate a Reid Street building for borough offices is expected to be completed this year. The Borough Council discussed the $2.8 million renovation of the property, located at 55 Reid St., at its meeting last…
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Photo
JEFF GRANIT staff Jim Aulbach gives a push to a tube with Emily Fodor (top to bottom) Stephanie Wrobleski, Jenna Parisen and Christina Volkmann, who took to a hill off Cherry Blossom Drive in Monroe Sunday after the weekend’s massive snowfall.
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Firehouse referendum goes to voters Saturday
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — To keep up with the population growth and improve response times, Fire District No. 2 officials will ask voters on Saturday to approve the construction of a new firehouse. The referendum is for a $5.4 million shared fire and EMS facility. The fire district…
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Local pair robbed, one stabbed outside store
EAST BRUNSWICK — Two township residents were robbed early Tuesday morning while sitting in a parked car outside a Ryders Lane drug store. The suspects, later arrested in New Brunswick, used Mace during the 1:42 a.m. robbery outside Walgreens and stabbed one of the victims before making off with a purse and a backpack. Police…
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New officer on board
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — The expansion of the township’s Police Department continued last week when officials swore in the squad’s 47th officer. Elvis Leung, 27, was welcomed to the force at the Feb. 6 meeting of the Township Council, and will be assigned to the patrol division. Leung,…
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In tribute
Above, family members of Ashley Streeter, a Monroe teenager who died at the age of 18 last month after being struck by a car in Jamesburg, look on during a memorial service for Ashley at Monroe Township High School Saturday. Pictured, from right, are her parents, Robert and Trina; her brother, Robert Jr.; and his…
