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      April 23, 2009  RSS feed
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      SCOTT FRIEDMAN The weekend's sunny weather and warm temperatures made outdoor activities a breeze for local residents, and for these freshly washed clothing and linens at a residence on Dunhams Corner Road, East Brunswick. More...
      Voters say yes to most budgets, incumbents

      Voters in most Middlesex County towns approved their local school budgets Tuesday, and in most cases also held onto their incumbent candidates for Board of Education. In East Brunswick, where 15 percent of registered voters cast ballots, the school budget was approved in a vote of 2,755 to 2,064. The 2009-10 budget will keep the school tax rate level for the operating budget, and residents will actually see a decrease in their school taxes due to reduced debt service. More...

      Memorial vote will go to voters in September
      Amount of bond referendum still to be determined
      BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer

      East Brunswick residents will be asked this September to support the construction of a new Memorial Elementary School. The Board of Education has reached a consensus that it will hold the ballot question in September, seeking to build a new school to replace the existing facility, which suffered extensive damage from a fire last July. More...


      Monroe resident tells of devastation, survival
      Holocaust survivor, author to appear at Barnes & Noble
      BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer

      It's been 64 years since Judith Sherman was liberated from the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, Germany. For over 50 of those years, she did not discuss her ordeal, not with her American husband, Robert, or her three children. More...


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      SCOTT FRIEDMAN Susan Luczu of East Brunswick cuts a piece of ginger cake during an open hearth cooking demonstration April 18 at the Covenhoven House in Freehold. The Monmouth County Historical Association hosted the event. More...


      Family and friends help out 'a trouper'
      May 2 dinner fundraiser will benefit Christy Szabocsik-Jarosz
      BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer

      The black cloud. That is how 28-year-old Christy Szabocsik-Jarosz and her husband, Steve, have referred to Christy's whirlwind past year of being diagnosed with brain cancer and hemophagocyctic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare, life-threatening disorder of the immune system that attacks a body's red blood cells. More...


       Bulletin Board
      • PTA will sponsor Community Yard Sale
      The Chittick School PTA Indoor/Outdoor Community Yard Sale is set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 25 in the school parking lot and gymnasium, 5 Flagler St., East Brunswick. A clothing drive will be held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. curbside. The PTA is accepting clean, wearable clothing; accessories; linens; backpacks; lunch boxes; and stuffed animals. Toys will not be accepted. More...
      • Animal Rescue to hold Tricky Tray
      • Book, media sale coming to library
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       Letters
      • Community volunteers should be praised
      Iam responding to Dominick Turitto's letter to the editor ("Same Old, Same Old on Spotswood Board of Education," Sentinel, April 2). You are certainly entitled to your opinion; however, I do not understand your implication. The members of the Spotswood Board of Education are routinely members of the Spotswood Soccer Club (or the like)? More...
      • Councilman apologizes for signing letter
      • Why enhance transportation if there is no one to use it?
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       Greg Bean's Column
      • article has image Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly
      When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn't the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of punishment for every bad thing we did during the year. More...
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       Obituaries
      • Dorothy R. Gehling Niedzwiecki
      Mrs. Niedzwiecki, 70, of Spotswood, formerly of Monroe, died April 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as a computer operator with the Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority, where she worked for 17 years. Before that, she was a computer operator with the Monroe Township Board of Education. More...
      • Theresa Oder
      • Joan L. Pye Herchenroder
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