• Easter Egg Hunt at the Dey Farm Historic Site

    Cassidy Smith, 8, of Monroe, takes part in the bonnet and top hat contest, held during the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Dey Farm Historic Site in Monroe March 27. The Monroe Township Mothers Club and the recreation department co-sponsored the event. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Business admin. calls aid cuts ‘incomprehensible’

    Board adopts $89.7M school budget with tax hike of $300 on avg. home BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Monroe Township school officials and a state legislator are headed to Trenton later this week to meet with state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler and discuss the district’s massive state aid cut. “We’re going to attempt to…

  • Scout leads restoration of Rev. War burial site

    Forgotten, vandalized cemetery includes more than 100 grave sites BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Along-neglected burial ground that is the final resting place for some Revolutionary War veterans has been cleaned up and improved thanks to the efforts of an East Brunswick Boy Scout. Dominic Barszcz, 18, carries a rail to be placed on the…

  • Movie tickets: You’ll have to hock the family jewels

    Itry not to sound like one of those old geezers who bore the pants off younger folk by telling them over and over again how much better things were back in the Olden Days. But I will take a little skip down memory lane by noting that the first time I paid for my own…

  • Name change is not the problem it is made out to be

    Iread with great interest your story titled “Residents: Street Name Change Costly, Unfair” that appeared in the April 1 issue of the Sentinel. As a 40-year veteran of the titleinsurance business, as well as a member of the Bar of the states of New Jersey and New York, I couldn’t disagree more with some of…

  • Gov’s, NJ Transit’s proposals will clog roads

    Iwas one of many concerned citizens who attended the public hearing about Gov. Chris Christie’s and NJ Transit’s proposed service cuts and fare increases of 25 percent. Many of those present were understandably angry. New Jersey is the most densely populated and congested state in the United States. These proposals will increase congestion and pollution…

  • Complacency is wrong approach to gov’t

    Itake great exception to the letter to the editor from Rod Kulp, “Leave Sewerage AuthorityAs Is,” that appeared in the April 1 issue of the Sentinel. His quoting of the old adage “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it” as a reason not to seek greater efficiencies in a governmental body is terribly misguided and…

  • Linda A. Freglette Diffin

    Mrs. Diffin, 66, of Sayreville, died April 1, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was employed for the past 25 years by the borough of Sayreville as an administrative assistant in the Department of Recreation. A member of the Sayreville Democratic Organization, she served as a committeewoman for the 29th District.…

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