Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Gas leak causes injury, business evacuations
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A gas leak at a township water pumping station sent one man to the hospital and closed area roads yesterday. Township Police Lt. William Krause said the man, an employee of the Miracle Chemical Co., of Farmingdale, was filling a tank at the…
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Budget for ’05 adopted with 9-cent tax hike
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The Township Council has adopted a final budget for 2005 amid calls that further cuts could have been made. The budget, which includes $350,000 in state extraordinary aid, nearly $200,000 in municipal homeland security aid and $150,000 in the form of a property…
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Residents ask for help with drainage problems
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Noah wasn’t afraid of some high water, but would he be willing to brave traffic on Route 18? If so, the township could have used an ark during the July 17 flood. The flood has inspired residents who are disgusted with repeated drainage…
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Police examine options for ‘treacherous’ road
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer HELMETTA –– Spotswood resident Patricia Mayer cringes every time she drives down Lake Avenue. That’s twice a day, six days a week. And other commuters, Mayer said, have developed the same reaction to driving on that road. That is, if they’re still willing to travel it.…
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Resident’s poetry helps win battle of the bulge
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Ruth Manieri, of Main Street in Sayreville, looks through her recent book of poetry, which is focused on weight loss. SAYREVILLE — A poem a day might melt the pounds away. That’s what Ruth Manieri hopes will be the case when people read…
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It’s showtime for the ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Painter’
Making likenesses of famous artists strikes a chord for area man BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer PHOTOSBYJENNIFER AMATO James Brown, Elvis Presley, Sid Vicious and Liza Minnelli are all in a room together in North Brunswick. However, they are all dressed in oil paint. Phillip Baker, 36, South Brunswick, is the…
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Hercules to clear site, mull options for future
Explosion at former manufacturing site sent flames 100 feet into air BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — Demolition proceedings are being expedited at a defunct manufacturing plant in light of an early morning explosion last week. Officials at Hercules Inc. also said they are researching redevelopment options for the 700-acre…
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Gov’t agencies band together for solution
Local, state, federal officials look at issues related to flooding BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer How do you stop a 100-year storm from causing flash floods? That was the question that local, county and federal officials set out to answer last week as they toured sections of Middlesex County that were…
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Enthusiasm high for opening of new school
K-2 facility to hold 600 students come start of school Sept. 6 BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff South River Superintendent of Schools Ronald Grygo shows off the media center/library of the borough’s new K-2 primary school on Johnson Place in South River. Not to scare the little ones,…
