Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • JERRY WOLKOWITZ BARNS AND GIZMOS

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ BARNS AND GIZMOS Jon Boros (top), 3, of Edison, colors a barn at the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, North Brunswick, during a recent Gadgets and Gizmos exhibit. The exhibit included a late-1800s beverage shaker and a 1910 electric milk centrifuge.

  • Spaulding changes his position on rezoning Board rejects rezoning to commercial use for Routes 1-130 tract

    By craig yetsko Spaulding changes his position on rezoning Board rejects rezoning to commercial use for Routes 1-130 tract NORTH BRUNSWICK — Mayor David Spaulding changed his mind last week about a proposed rezoning change at the Routes 1 and 130 circle. At a special July 27 Planning Board meeting, Spaulding, who sits on the…

  • 8-year-old is threatened at gunpoint at Ramada Inn

    8-year-old is threatened at gunpoint at Ramada Inn NORTH BRUNSWICK — An 8-year-old Maryland girl was threatened with a gun at the Ramada Inn, Route 1, Friday night. Around 10 p.m. she left a party and went into an upstairs hall to use the bathroom, police said. When she entered the restroom, she was shoved…

  • House approves funding for Rutgers projects

    Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. recently announced that the House of Representatives has approved federal funding for two agricultural programs at Rutgers University. The funding is part of the fiscal year 2001 appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture. Blueberry and cranberry research in New Jersey would again receive $220,000 from these research grants under the…

  • Birchwood Court resident stabbed near his residence

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — A Birchwood Court resident was stabbed near his residence on Friday evening. According to police, the male victim was walking in the parking lot near his residence with two friends and the alleged suspect. The suspect, a black male, allegedly sliced the victim’s left arm with "some sort" of knife, leaving a…

  • DOT explains Route 1 railroad bridge upgrade plan Official: Crossover by Bristol-Myers Squibb ‘structurally deficient’

    By craig yetsko DOT explains Route 1 railroad bridge upgrade plan Official: Crossover by Bristol-Myers Squibb ‘structurally deficient’ NORTH BRUNSWICK — It looks as if there will be more construction on the Route 1 corridor by the middle of the decade. With the Route 1-130 overpass project starting within a year or so, the Department…

  • N.B. Senior Center schedules August events

    The North Brunswick Senior Center will hold its free "Movie & Popcorn" on Aug. 4 at 12:30 p.m., and show the film Music of the Heart. The center’s "Lunch & Learn" program is scheduled for Aug. 14 at noon, with a speaker from Princeton Homecare. There will be a free movie offered at Rutgers Cinemas,…

  • Trip to view ‘Titanic’ artifacts planned

    A trip to see "The Titanic" artifact exhibit will be sponsored by the North Brunswick Township High School Social Studies Department on Aug. 21, with buses leaving the high school parking lot at 9 a.m., and returning at 6 p.m. The exhibit is at the Tropicana Resort in Atlantic City. Cost is $10 for transportation,…

  • South Brunswick PAL to hold ‘Annual Golf Outing’

    The South Brunswick Police Athletic League will hold its fund-raiser, the third "Annual Golf Outing" on Aug. 20, beginning at 11 a.m. at Bunker Hill Golf Course, Bunker Hill Road, Princeton. Cost is $85 per golfer, or $75 if pre-registered. Individuals may register up until Aug. 13. The fee includes a golf cart, greens fees,…