Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Boro looks to establish paid ambulance service
Spotswood seeks to address shortage of volunteers BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer A shortage of first aid volunteers is prompting the start-up of an ambulance company complete with paid members. The new organization would use the services of emergency medical technicians funded by the insurance providers of patients. The Spotswood Borough…
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Golden Triangle plan amended amid dissent
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Township Council has amended its Golden Triangle Redevelopment Plan, in part increasing the size of buildings allowed on the Route 18 site. The changes, which have some residents saying the administration and developer played a game of “bait and switch,” were adopted…
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JEFF GRANIT staff Members of American Legion Post 522 recognize Veterans Day during a wreath-laying ceremony Friday morning at the veterans monument in the Monroe Township municipal complex.
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CDs of Starland show to aid hurricane victims
Collective Soul to perform tomorrow in Sayreville BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Collective Soul will sell copies of the concert it performs in Sayreville tomorrow with proceeds benefiting musicians affected by the recent hurricanes. SAYREVILLE — While their fans wear T-shirts adorned with the phrase “Got Soul?,” the…
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Sides gear up for first hearing on land swap
State DEP officials to hear views of public on Monroe proposal BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer With the first of two public hearings on a controversial land swap in Monroe slated for Monday, local groups are focusing on informing the public. “People are asking a lot of questions,” said Board of Education President Kathy Kolupanowich,…
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Program in ‘desperate need’ of foster families
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer In a season of giving, there may be no better way to give than to foster a child. Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, is currently seeking foster homes or emergency respite families for the more than 500 children displaced throughout Middlesex County. “It is a very…
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Coming through
The Spotswood High School boys cross-country team entered Saturday’s NJSIAA Group II championship meet at Holmdel Park looking to make history, and did just that, winning the team title — the first state group title of any kind for the school. Now they set their sights on Saturday’s Meet of Champions, where the Chargers will…
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Musicians come together for Cash tribute concert
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Jeffrey Gaines ‘The man in black” has not been forgotten.Far from it, as evidenced by the 50-plus musicians who will gather Sunday to perform the music of Johnny Cash at a Route 35 club in South Amboy. New Jersey-based country/roots performer Michael Patrick is organizing “Johnny…
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R.U. scared? Duo chronicles campus lore
Graduate students began BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Trick-or-treat: “Rutgers Rarities” founders Jessica Teal and Ray Brennan claim that the Willow Grove Cemetery in New Brunswick, among other campus locations, is haunted. There are vandalized and broken headstones, unmarked graves and an eerie tree struck by lightning in the middle of…
