Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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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…
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Team from EBHS headed to airwaves
Game show with 32 high school teams premieres Saturday EAST BRUNSWICK — A team of five East Brunswick High School students will soon come to living rooms throughout the state as part of a new game show on News 12 New Jersey. The high school’s Academic Team is among students from 32 New Jersey high…
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Builder to visit farm, discuss land dispute
Group of 30 residents ask council to help Federal Road farmer BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Laurie Winter looks over the raspberry bushes on property that U.S. Home has said she must clear. MONROE –– One day after three incumbents were voted back into office, residents were asking…
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Town, commuter group discuss new TCC deck
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A new commuter parking deck to be built as part of the Golden Triangle redevelopment is being designed with input from those who use the facility. Township officials and representatives of Toll Brothers, which will redevelop the Route 18 property where stores including…
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Boro told it can have any 10-acre tract
SPOTSWOOD — Officials met recently with representatives of the Schweitzer-Mauduit plant to discuss the company’s anticipated donation of land to the borough. Schweitzer-Mauduit, which operates a paper manufacturing plant on East Main Street, informed borough officials earlier this year that they would donate about 10 acres of land across the street from its plant to…
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Stuck in a rut
JEFF GRANIT staff A tractor-trailer sits lodged under the bridge on Gatzmer Avenue in Jamesburg Monday evening. The truck was pulled out by a tow service with help from borough police, who briefly closed the road.
