Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Stollen will ensure that ‘vision’ for borough is fulfilled

    Ilike what I read in the April 22 Sentinel: “Spotswood Officials Move Ahead With Vision Plan.” Borough Council President Curt Stollen spelled out the future of Spotswood beautifully — “Help us guide the development of the town in the direction we would like to go.” This is not just a plan that would be considered…

  • Defeated budget in hands of council’s education committee

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer JAMESBURG — The Borough Council’s education committee will meet with Board of Education members to determine what will happen to the defeated school budget. “They will bring back recommendations,” Mayor Anthony LaMantia said. The council will then vote on the recommendations at its May 12 meeting. “We’ll discuss it…

  • Officials should serve constituents, not banks

    Big banks are ruining this country by their greed. People in office should protect the real, true bluebloods of this country, and that would be the American people who have worked to make this country great. It seems that banks and all financial institutions are pushing the American people under. Crimes are going up all…

  • New meeting location for area MOMS Club

    The Spotswood Area MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Club has changed the location of its monthly meetings. Moms interested in joining the Spotswood, Helmetta, Milltown and Monroe group may now attend meetings on the third Thursday of every month at the Polish American Citizens Club, 66 Adirondack Ave., Spotswood. Children are welcome; there will be…

  • Artists sought for E.B. Fine Arts Festival

    The township of East Brunswick, Division of Recreation and Community Services and the East Brunswick Arts Commission will sponsor the eighth annual Fine Arts Festival, an outdoor juried show and sale of fine art and crafts, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 5 around the pond at the East Brunswick municipal complex, Jean Walling Civic Center, Ryders…

  • Election winners face fiscal challenges on Monroe board

    Antelis loses bid for seventh term on board in four-person race BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MONROE — Newcomer Louis C. Masters was “extremely surprised” when he was recently elected to his first term on the Board of Education. “Going into this, everybody was kind of saying ‘You’re not going to win this, you’re…

  • MSG Varsity’s “Challenge,”

    Continuing their winning streak in round two, the academic team from East Brunswick High School is moving on to the third round of MSG Varsity’s “Challenge,” an academic quiz show designed to test students’ knowledge in a Jeopardy-style format. The thirdround match will air May 6 at 6:30 p.m. on Cablevision’s MSG Varsity.

  • Follow us on Facebook, Twitter

    Our online Facebook and Twitter pages are up and running, and we invite our readers to check out this faster way of keeping up with what is going on in their region. Let us assure anyone who is thinking “I don’t text and I don’t tweet” that we’ve made accessing these online sites very simple.…

  • James Kobezak Jr.

    Mr. Kobezak, 67, of Stock Island, Fla., formerly of East Brunswick, died April 11, 2010, at home. He was predeceased by his parents, Jim and Bertha Kobezak, and by a son, James D. Surviving are his wife, Edna; a daughter, Rickie Lynn of Florida; two siblings, Allen Kobezak of East Brunswick and Lorraine Fisezi of…