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December 24, 2008
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JEFF GRANIT staff Students from Spotswood's Appleby Elementary School perform during the annual holiday party at the borough's Office on Aging on Dec. 17. Nick Toth (from right) and Kelly Kresge take part in the spirited dance and singalong. More photos, page 17. More...
Budget woes prompt cuts to jobs, services
Some employees' hours reduced, another laid off
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer

Jamesburg officials are making a series of cuts that they expect will save about $200,000 in next year's municipal budget. Though the job and service cuts had been proposed and discussed for several weeks, hardly any members of the public turned out at the Dec. 17 meeting when the Borough Council... More...


Spotswood family honors son's legacy
Ida and Pedro Gonzalez seek to 'make a difference'
BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent

One life can make a difference in the world, and so can one death. Michael Gonzalez's was one such life, and sadly his death this past summer in Iraq was one such death. Michael grew up in Spotswood, worked part time at the ShopRite stores in East Brunswick and Spotswood, and enlisted in the U.S.... More...


A Happy Hanukkah

PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: A children's singing group sings Hanukkah songs during an event Sunday at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe on Gravel Hill Road. The event featured the lighting of what is billed as Monroe's largest menorah. Left: Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky addresses those present for... More...


 Bulletin Board
•B'nai B'rith couples plan holiday party
The B'nai B'rith Ketubah Married Couples Unit (ages 40-plus) will hold its annual Hanukkah party at 1 p.m. Dec. 28 at a member's home in Holmdel. The event will feature a kosher deli luncheon and a gift exchange. Participants should bring a wrapped gift costing $10 or more. More...
•Family New Year's Eve gala
•Story-time signups planned at library
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 Letters
•Adult responsibilities cannot always be measured by a person's age
This letter is in response to Deborah C. Gumpper's letter to the editor ("Adult Enough to Go to War but Not to Have a Drink") in the Dec. 04, 2008, issue of the Sentinel. Ms. More...
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 Editorials
•Spirit of the season shines in local towns
The holiday season is a time of giving, and nowhere is that more apparent than right here in Middlesex County. In the midst of widespread economic turmoil, of cutbacks being made in seemingly every business and household, people still find ways to help others who are going through a harder time th... More...
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 Greg Bean's Column
•Fed will reform credit card industry, but there's a catch
Ialways laugh at those movies where the loan shark sends out a leg breaker like Rocky Balboa to collect on unpaid debts. In those movies, you get the idea that the loan sharks are always named Sal, and the people late with the payments are always downon their-luck alcoholic gamblers and degenerat... More...
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 Obituaries
•Thomas P. Gorman
Mr. Gorman, 84, of Sayreville, died Dec. 7, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1987, he was employed for more than 45 years by the International Brotherhood of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Local No. 5, Sayreville. More...
•Sophie Losinski
•David J. Skarzynski
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 Schools
•Holiday fun
PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Students from Spotswood's Appleby Elementary School perform during the annual holiday party at the borough's Office on Aging Dec. 17. Sarah Spangler (from right) and Charlene Kollar (with glasses) spread the holiday cheer. More...
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 Sports
•OBHS wrestlers return experienced lineup
The Old Bridge High School wrestling team returns three competitors who posted 26 or more victories as the Knights look to improve upon last winter's 13-5 mark. A year ago coach Bryan Garnett's team finished third in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Red Division, behind South Plainfield an... More...
•Bombers expect to contend for division title
•Sayreville swim teams seek improvement
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