Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • New Jersey welcomes all types of creatures of comfort

    Super Pet Expo caters to those with fur, fins and scales BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Julianne Powers of Edison holds Lily steady for a portrait artist during the Super Pet Expo at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison on Feb. 12. SCOTT FRIEDMAN The fur was flying in Edison last weekend,…

  • NBTHS student fatally injured in motor vehicle accident

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — A motor vehicle accident claimed the life of a student from North Brunswick Township High School on Feb. 8. Susan Quabeck, 17, of North Brunswick, was driving on Route 130 south in the slow lane near Quarry Lane around 1:30 p.m. She had attempted to change into the middle lane, according to…

  • Man who works in So. Brunswick charged in kidnapping plot

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A man who works in Monmouth Junction has been accused of facilitating a kidnapping plot last year, according to a grand jury indictment handed down by the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, in Newark, on Feb. 10. Beginning in September 2010, Jayen I. Patel, 40, sought others to conduct…

  • N.B. moving toward a BJ’s Wholesale Club on Rt. 1

    Settlement agreement allows a large retail establishment to occupy building shell BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A BJ’s Wholesale Club could be coming to Route 1 and Commerce Boulevard. The issue dates back to 1997, when an original application for a supermarket by a subsidiary of Prestige Properties was approved; the building…

  • So. Bruns. warehouse workers overcome by carbon monoxide

    No one seriously injured SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Seventeen employees at a South Brunswick warehouse were overcome by carbon monoxide on Feb 12. South Brunswick police officers responded at 10:20 a.m. to reports of a sick employee at Herman Warehouse Corp. located at 21 Distribution Way. Upon arrival, the police discovered that the worker had fainted…

  • S.B. receives grant funding through Bikeways Program

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Bikers will soon be able to ride the rails in South Brunswick. The township was recently awarded $260,000 by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) through its Bikeways Program to help fund the completion of the township’s Freedom Trail bikeway, which runs from Kingston to Dayton.…

  • Holt brings Bean bill back amid rise in vets’ suicide rate

    Army report says 145 Guard, Reserve members took own lives in 2010 BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Sgt. Coleman Bean EAST BRUNSWICK — Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th District) is renewing efforts to pass a bill intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers. His reintroduction of the measure, which was suddenly removed from the federal…

  • Pa. man found guilty in murder of deli owner

    Frank Marsh convicted of carrying out execution-style killing of Vincent Russo BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK— FrankMarsh has been convicted of carrying out the 2008 hit on Vincent Russo, owner of the Mezzaluna Deli in North Brunswick. Marsh, 46, of Lower Macungie, Pa., had been on trial since Jan. 13, charged in the…

  • S.B. grows its own version of flower power

    Gardening Club focuses on planting methods, eco-friendly agriculture BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The South Brunswick Gardening Club, in association with the Dayton Citizens Coalition, held its annual Gardening Workshop on Feb 6. Around 30 people gathered at the public library to listen to gardening presentations, swap seeds and discuss agriculture. This…