Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Families make their time together count
John Adams Elem. School holds Family Involvement Math Night Cameron Snowden, a first-grader at John Adams Elementary School, rolls the dice with his father, Clay, during Family Involvement Math Night on Jan. 9. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN More than 70 families of children in kindergarten through second grade attended a Family Involvement Math Night at…
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Zimmerli highlights revelations in Soviet nonconformist art
“Counterform 1959” oil on canvas by Valery Yurlov The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will continue its series of one-person shows devoted to Soviet nonconformist artists with “In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov,” on view through June 3. Yurlov stands out as one of the earliest proponents of…
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Cops & Rodders car show back on track
Registration for vehicles, vendors, sponsors under way NORTH BRUNSWICK — Registration is under way for the annual Cops & Rodders car show in North Brunswick. After a two-year hiatus, the show will return onApril 29 at the DeVry University parking lot off Route 1. Anyone looking to showcase their car, truck, motorcycle or specialty vehicle…
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Middlesex sheriff hires officers laid off by police departments
Middlesex County Sheriff Mildred Scott has announced that she has hired 13 police officers who had been laid off by the Paterson and Newark police departments. “We were fortunate to be able to replace many of our retired officers with well-qualified officers who were unemployed due to layoffs in Newark and Paterson,” Scott said. “Because…
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Crowds come out to fight mail operations transfer
USPS hears comments on plan to move mail processing from Edison to Kearny BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Keep the mail center in Edison open. That was the consensus among hundreds of people who attended the U.S. Postal Service’s public hearing on its proposal to consolidate and move operations from the Kilmer Processing & Distribution…
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A piece of peace
Top: Arielissette Santos Mendez reads a poem about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a celebration of his birthday at Livingston Park Elementary School in North Brunswick on Jan. 13. Above: Students celebrated King’s birthday with songs and poems. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff
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Metuchen cultural hotspot will close at month’s end
Raconteur has served as far more than a bookstore during its seven-year run BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent The community will bid farewell Jan. 31 to what has since 2004 been a cultural institution in the borough: The Raconteur. Owner Alex Dawson said his plan was to take on this endeavor — owning the bookstore that…
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Livingston Park Elementary School in North Brunswick held a celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 13. More photos, page 21. JEFF GRANIT staff
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PSE&G warns customers about payment scam
Hispanic neighborhoods are being targeted PSE&G is alerting its customers about a scam in which individuals misrepresenting themselves as PSE&G employees threaten to turn off electric and gas service if payment is not made to them that day . The scam involves payments using Green DotMoneyPaks and seems to be targeting Hispanic neighborhoods in PSE&G’s…
