Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Test subject
Siemens research consultant Ryan Bohler (l) and science teacher Marybeth Decarlo assist seventh-grader Miles Joiner with a chemistry experiment on Dec. 6. Crossroads Middle School South, Monmouth Junctions, welcomed volunteers from Siemens, an electronics and engineering company in Princeton, for a chemistry-based science day.
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Website connects teachers and students around the world
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — About four months ago, physical education teacher Sarah Diller approached Jeffrey Bradbury of the music department at North Brunswick Township High School. She saw Bradbury’s use of an Apple iPad in the classroom, as well as a projector screen and a computer, and inquired about how to…
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U. Med. Center at Princeton to expand fetal services
PRINCETON — The University Medical Center at Princeton’s (UMCP) Maternal Fetal Medicine Department has partnered with Penn Medicine to offer advanced care for expectant mothers in need of specialized services and round-theclock access to board-certified obstetricians, maternal fetal medicine specialists, anesthesiologists, neonatologists and pediatricians. Through the new partnership with Penn Medicine’s Division of Maternal Fetal…
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Local teens receive awards in nat’l equine competition
BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Kristie VonThun, Colleen Soulias and Rachel VanDemark (l-r) accept honors at the 26th annual Eastern National 4-H Horse Roundup. Three students from the local area represented New Jersey well at a national equine competition this November, receiving awards during their short stint in Kentucky. Kristie VonThun, 16, and Rachel Van- Demark,…
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Weather service seeks local rainfall readers
A collaborative weather monitoring organization is looking for volunteers from Middlesex County to provide information from their own backyards. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a rapidly expanding national precipitationobserving network that New Jersey has participated in since 2008. The monitoring program now has more than 15,000 volunteer observers in all…
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Former Dow Jones employee sentenced for wire fraud
A former Dow Jones & Co. employee was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Dec. 12 for stealing more than $400,000 while working at a company office in Monmouth Junction, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman . U.S. District JudgeAnne E. Thompson handed Jacqueline Bucco, of Bensalem, Pa., a two-year sentence in Trenton…
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Man sentenced for transporting stolen goods from No. Bruns.
N.Y. man also found guilty of armed robbery at Carlstadt perfume warehouse NEWARK — Anselmo Jimenes, 31, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced on Dec. 6 to 77 months in prison for conspiring to commit the armed robbery of a Carlstadt perfume warehouse in which he, together with three active New York Police Department officers, one…
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Approval needed for park-and-ride in S.B.
Progress depends on widening of Beekman Road BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The fully funded construction of a park-and-ride near the intersection of Route 27 and Beekman Road hinges on the widening of Beekman Road in South Brunswick. The Township Council plans to pass a resolution this week to request that New Jersey…
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Residents, officials voice mixed emotions with Turnpike plans
BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Some good points, some bad points. That is theway residents and township officials saw the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s plan to improve the Exit 9 interchange in East Brunswick during a public hearing on Nov. 30. Most said the $27 million project was much needed, but worried…
