Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • So. Brunswick still reeling from effects of Irene

    Town is the hardest hit in the county for power loss Alden Rathburn Jr. stands in his front yard on Fresh Ponds Road in South Brunswick on Aug. 31, assessing a tree that nearly fell on his home after Hurricane Irene. JEFF GRANIT staff South Brunswick officials and emergency response teams were tested during the…

  • Memorial plaque honoring events of 9/11 to be unveiled

    North Brunswick’s commemorative ceremony to begin at 8:30 a.m. Sunday BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Miles Kirwin Editor’s note: The location of the Walk of Remembrance has been changed to the intersection of Routes 1 and 130 by the American flag. The public is invited to meet at 7:15 a.m. Sept. 11 in the Chili’s…

  • 9/11 observances

    PHOTO BY FARRAH TOMASELLI The most powerful weapon known to humanity is not an airliner flown into a building. Nor anthrax. Nor even a nuclear device. The most powerful weapon is fear. Fear is the only weapon that can destroy a country, because it is the one thing that can make people surrender their ideals.…

  • No. Brunswick resident attempts 100-mile marathon

    Along the way Mohit Moondra raised over $1,100 for people with disabilities BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Mohit Moondra spent four years at North Brunswick Township High School on the track and cross-country teams. As a sophomore and junior at Carnegie Mellon University, he decided to join the cross-country team again. When…

  • Middlesex County expects federal disaster aid for hurricane

    Middlesex County fully anticipates a federal disaster declaration in the coming days, which will ensure that the 25 municipalities will receive federal disaster aid. Middlesex County Freeholder Director Christopher D. Rafano said county and town governments have taken and will continue to take the necessary steps to ensure residents’ needs are met in the aftermath…

  • Appellate court overturns sexual assault charges

    Ex-hospital tech found guilty of attacking No. Brunswick, Edison women A former Robert Wood Johnson University critical care technician has had sexual assault convictions overturned. According to a decision posted on the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division’s website Aug. 15, Bruce Sterling was not permitted a fair trial process. Sterling was arrested on…

  • SBPD, U.S. Marshals track down alleged felon

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The South Brunswick Police Department partnered with the United States Marshal’s Task Force to capture a fugitive wanted since June, according to a press release. The officers teamed up to bring in Eric Ferrell, 40, of Edison, who was charged with two counts of child endangerment and one count of possession of…

  • Wing span

    Left: Kayla Smith, 5, of Kingston (l) and her sister Anya, 8, look for butterflies while Dale Duchai (l-r), project manager of the Butterfly House, mom Tracy and volunteer Dot Cohen, of North Brunswick, look on during the Garden Field Day open house at the EARTH Center at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick…

  • Zimmerli to exhibit works of two Venetian masters

    New Brunswick — The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will evoke the brio at the heart of 18th-century Venetian art by presenting rarely seen etchings of two artistic masters who made the Italian republic an artistic capital. The exhibition, “Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo Etchings,” runs Sept. 6 through Jan. 8. Drawn largely…