Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • No. Bruns. youths spend summer with the police

    Junior Police Academy exposes group to law enforcement field, physical training BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Above: Junior cadets work on their pushups during the physical training session of the North Brunswick Junior Police Academy Aug. 5. Cadets are learning about law enforcement for two weeks this summer. Left: junior cadets Cameron Kaltschmid (l) and…

  • No. Brunswick council celebrates achievements of residents

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Township Council honored several residents with proclamations during the Aug. 1 council meeting. To begin, Keri Shutz was sworn in as a new township police officer. Next, the third group of North Brunswick’s Community Emergency Response Team [CERT] volunteers were recognized for completing their 20 hours…

  • Increased drunken-driving enforcement through Sept. 5

    Local law enforcement officers will be cracking down on drunken drivers from Aug. 19 through Sept. 5 as part of the statewide “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign. Local and state officers will conduct sobriety checkpoints, looking for motorists who may be intoxicated. High-visibility enforcement and public education tools, including posters, banners and mobile video…

  • No. Bruns. adds patrolwoman to Police Department

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township Police Department has added another female to its police force. Keri Shutz, 27, originally was an agent for the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office for 3½ years after graduating from Seton Hall University in 2006 with a degree in criminal justice. Preferring to be outside on…

  • Artists’ reception slated for Aug. 21 at Fiddleheads

    JAMESBURG — Three New Jersey artists will hold a free reception Aug. 21 at Fiddleheads Restaurant, East Railroad Avenue. Indrani Choudhury of Edison, and Fran and Maxwell Nimeck, both of North Brunswick, will host the fall 2011 gallery show from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The show includes complex watercolors, acrylics, oils, encaustics and lithographs, framed…

  • Join the Moment of Remembrance for the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001

    A mericans are being encouraged to come together as a nation for the Moment of Remembrance at 1 p.m. EDT on Sept. 11, 2011. The event will memorialize the lives lost during the events of Sept. 11, 2001 with one minute of reflection marked by the ringing of bells, sounding of sirens and other actions…

  • Jack’s Furniture seeks lease with Family Dollar store

    Planning Board application will continue Sept. 13 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A Family Dollar store could soon be coming to Jack’s Famous Furniture building on Livingston Avenue. Jack Mamroud, owner of the furniture business for the past 13 years, brought an application before the North Brunswick Planning Board on Aug. 3,…

  • India’s Independence Day celebration this weekend

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — India’s Independence Day celebration at the South Brunswick Family YMCA will be bigger and better than ever, according to the Indo- American Cultural Foundation’s (IACFNJ) executive committee. The fourth annual celebration will be held Aug. 21 and will represent India’s 64th year as an independent nation. IACFNJ treasurer…

  • Historic home restored in Kendall Park

    Resident Michael Sassman renovated the Hoagland-Clark House; family set to move in SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The South Brunswick Historic Preservation Commission celebrated the restoration of a home built in the 1700s, and the grassroots efforts to save it, on Aug. 11 in Kendall Park. The Hoagland-Clark House is located on 8 Stevens Road and would…