Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Omission of Bean bill described as baffling
East Brunswick family, Holt vow to continue fight for improved veterans’ services BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — A bill named for a local veteran and intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers will not be funded this year. Its sudden removal from the federal DefenseAuthorizationAct of 2011 has angered a local…
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Bill honoring memory of local teen proceeds
Aproposal that would honor a late Sayreville teen by creating a nextof kin registry to be used to notify family when a loved one is incapacitated in a serious accident is moving forward in the state Legislature. The Assembly approved the bill in a 78- 0 vote in June, and the Senate Budget and Appropriates…
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Ice & snow must be cleared from moving vehicles
Highway safety and law enforcement officials have reminded New Jersey motorists that an amended law went into effect on Oct. 20 which requires that all ice and snow be removed from a vehicle before it may travel on New Jersey’s roads. Failure to do so can result in a citation and fine. Division of Highway…
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Michael Mills plays Willy Wonka during the Judd Elementary School’s fourth- and fifth-grade production of “The Chocolate Factory” Dec. 21 in North Brunswick. For more photos, see page 7. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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North Brunswick finally saves Pulda Farm from development
Township closed on the purchase Dec. 15 BY JENNIFER AMATO BY JENNIFER Staff Writer The Pulda Farm has officially been saved from any future development. North Brunswick closed on the 70-acre lakefront property Dec. 15 after years of debate over whether to keep the land as open space and after an application was approved in…
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Snowstorm causes trouble in So. Bruns.
South Brunswick, as well as the rest of the East Coast, was buried earlier this week by a snowstorm. New Jersey, which had a State of Emergency declared by state Senate President and acting Gov. Steve Sweeney at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, saw over 2 feet of snowfall almost statewide. In South Brunswick, according to police,…
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Author attempts to capture essence of Christmas 1945
Book examines how throng of military personnel tried to get home for holidays after WWII BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Matthew Litt Christmas is a special time of year for many families, but the Christmas of 1945 was special to the entire nation because it was the first Christmas after the end of World War II.…
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Longtime N.B. police lieutenant retires
Jeffrey Smith spent 27 years serving the community BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — North Brunswick Police Lt. Jeffrey Smith was one of the first responders at ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001. Once word spread that two highjacked planes had flown into two buildings at the World Trade Center in New York,…
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Family seeks to sell off set of 31 vintage guitars
Late resident had collected hand-crafted guitars made by New Jersey’s Sam Koontz BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer It’s a story that might make William Shakespeare proud. “We’ve got passion, we’ve got love, we have beauty, we have death and we have suicide … it’s everything that Shakespeare would have written about,” said Christopher Wylde, who…
