Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Community Unity Day celebration Saturday
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — South Brunswick residents will have an opportunity for reflection and education at this year’s Charlene J. Austin Community Unity Day, scheduled for Saturday. Sponsored by the South Brunswick Municipal Alliance on Substance Abuse, Community Unity Day seeks to promote awareness of alcohol, tobacco…
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Jazzed-up Heritage Day in store for No. Brunswick
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — With summer’s end comes the township’s traditional celebration of history and heritage in Babbage Park. North Brunswick’s 22nd Annual Heritage Day Festival will take place from noon to 9 p.m. Sept. 18. “We invite all to come out and enjoy this long-standing tradition…
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Freeholders stepping up transportation services
Middlesex County hiring director to oversee new department BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Middlesex County hiring director to overseenew departmentBY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Middlesex County is getting its own Department of Transpor-tation, a move that officials say will improve the quality of transportation services for county residents. The new department will be headed by a…
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Class resumes around contaminated grounds
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Officials were worried, but most North Brunswick Township High School students made it to school on time yesterday. During the Township Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack asked students to leave their homes 20 minutes earlier than they normally would…
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Boy’s first haircut steeped in tradition
Monroe rabbi is credited with rekindling old Jewish customs BY SETHMANDELStaff Writer BY SETHMANDEL Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky (l) holds his son, Mendel, as Rabbi Dovid Dubov, of Princeton, takes part in the upsherenish ceremony. MONROE — Mendel Zaklikovsky’s third birthday was a sweet one. It was sweet, not because he…
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Pageant winner not just another pretty face
To North Brunswick BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Miss New Jersey Junior Teen Hostess Kacy Vanatta at her home in North Brunswick. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when Kacy Vanatta looks at her crown, she sees it in others. The 14-year-old…
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Martial artist teaches self-defense to challenged
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A local karate master helped the Maccabees learn how to defend themselves. On Aug. 22, Michael Abruzzi welcomed and taught a self-defense course to the Maccabees, a Marlboro-based group of Jewish, challenged young adults, at Golden Tiger Karate on Georges Road, according to…
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Parking prohibited on Old Georges Road
Rule will becomeactive upon receiptof traffic signs BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Rule will become active upon receipt of traffic signs BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Motorists can no longer park their vehicles on Old Georges Road. The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders designated Old Georges Road a no-parking zone on Aug.…
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Raid on Pine St. home leads to several arrests
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Raid on Pine St. home leads to several arrests BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A police raid into a Pine Street residence led to five arrests and the confiscation of seven marijuana plants, according to officials. North Brunswick Township Police arrested Robert Esposito, 42, Rosemarie Esposito, 50, and…
