Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Muscle Maker Grill grand opening July 18
Correction: The grand opening date for Muscle Maker Grill, 536 Milltown Road, North Brunswick, in the Brunswick Shopping Center, has been changed to Mon., July 18. The restaurant offers local residents more healthful versions of their favorite foods. Ron Arora, franchise owner of the new restaurant and a North Brunswick resident, decided to bring Muscle…
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County concert series in high gear
BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Live music will return to stages across Middlesex County as its summer concert series gets started this week. Music in the Park is an annual tradition and features a variety of free weekly performances at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy, Spring Lake Park Gazebo in South Plainfield, Warren Park…
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Middlesex Cty. offering cash rewards for crime stoppers information
MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Cash rewards are being offered for information that leads to arrests in a series of incidents in New Brunswick, North Brunswick and Franklin Township. Members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, the New Brunswick Police Department, the North Brunswick Police Department and the Franklin Township Police Department are actively investigating 10 incidents…
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Dancing and music fill the room as Hidden Gems plays Bollywood music in South Brunswick on July 8. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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South Bruns. removed from red light camera program
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer South Brunswick will not be participating in the Red Light Running Automated Enforcement pilot program as originally expected. According to Ron Schmalz, public affairs coordinator for South Brunswick, the township applied to the Department of Transportation (DOT) about 27 months ago for a camera at the intersection of Route 522…
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Ex-sheriff’s investigator latest to be charged in bribery scheme
Spicuzzo and a sheriff’s officer were arrested in March A former Middlesex County sheriff’s investigator was arrested July 7 on charges that he assisted former Sheriff Joseph C. Spicuzzo in collecting a bribe from a person seeking a job in the sheriff’s office. Darrin P. DiBiasi, 43, of Monmouth Junction, surrendered to detectives of the…
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Survey: Most biz leaders say N.J. gov’t ‘more responsive’
The attitude of New Jersey CEOs toward the state’s economy and business climate has improved significantly over the last 18 months, according to the results of the New Jersey Economic Policy Summit’s sixth “C-Suite Survey” (C-Suite VI) of Garden State CEOs. The findings, presented May 25 at the summit’s fourth annual conference, show that 75…
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No. Bruns. tax increase could be 1-cent for second half of 2011
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer North Brunswick residents could see a rate increase of 1 cent per $100 of assessed valuation on their municipal tax bill for the second half of 2011. This, however, does not include a separate library tax of 3 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. As of right now, the council…
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Milltown native proves she’s no ‘ordinary’ author
Book signing held for latest novel, ‘Ordinary Beauty,’ in East Brunswick BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Laura Wiess MILLTOWN — Growing up in Milltown, Laura Wiess loved books. But she never dreamed of actually writing one. “An author seemed like something in nirvana, high up in the mountains,” Wiess said. But soon, with 19 novels…
