Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Phone scam asks for credit card information

    The North Brunswick Police Department is warning residents about a recent phone scam that could lead to identity theft. A detective within the department had received a call on his cell phone stating that his debit and/or credit cards were being canceled due to fraudulent activity. The recording advises the listener to wait on the…

  • Classical music

    Ed Goldberg and the Odessa Klezmer Band performs traditional music of Eastern Europe, Romania, Poland and Israel at the South Brunswick Senior Center on Sept. 2. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • SBPD mourns loss of former chief

    Frank E. Simmons, of Dayton, passed away Sept. 1 BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Former South Brunswick Police Chief Frank E. Simmons of Dayton passed away at his home on Sept. 1. He was 84. Simmons was born in Roebling in Burlington County and spent his life in Dayton. He was a Navy veteran of…

  • S.B. residents to face 5-cent tax rate increase

    Council unanimously approves budget, but some members are not happy about it BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer South Brunswick residents face a 5-cent municipal tax rate increase for the upcoming fiscal year. The municipal tax rate will rise from 68 cents per $100 of assessed valuation to 72 cents per $100. The increase translates to…

  • Middlesex Cty’s Young Democrats start over

    Group reorganizes after ‘breather’ period BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer The Young Democrats of Middlesex County, an organization for people ages 14-36, is alive once again. The group, reorganized for the first time since just after the 2008 presidential election, recently elected a new slate of officers to lead the movement toward a greater understanding…

  • EARTH Center Open House

    Mary Ellen Mertz (l) and Fran Murphy, both of Monroe, check out melampodium during an open house Saturday at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s EARTH Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick. More photos, page 18 and at www.gmnews.com SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • N.B.-based business receives $300,000 grant

    Funding for TRIM-edicine will support muscular dystrophy research NORTH BRUNSWICK — TRIMedicine Inc., a township-based biotechnology firm, has received a $300,000 federal Small Business Innovation & Research (SBIR) grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will support research of a protein that has shown the ability to promote muscle cell membrane…

  • Through the darkness, ISCJ hopes to provide some relief

    Donations being accepted to aid victims of the monsoon rains in Pakistan BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer With monsoon rains buffeting Pakistan for almost a full month now, things are beyond dire. According to the U.N. News Service, an estimated 17.2 million people are classified as “significantly affected,” and 1.2 million homes have been badly…

  • Grandparents Day

    Top: Kimberly (l) and Catie Marron, visiting from San Diego, Calif., hug their grandparents, Jane and John Clute of South Brunswick, after singing a duet for them during a youth talent show at the South Brunswick Senior Center on Aug. 26. Above: Catie sings “Astonishing” from the Broadway musical “Little Women.” PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN