Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Brain Challenge
Linwood Middle School students scramble to spell “physical” during the Brain Challenge assembly April 7 in North Brunswick. More photos, page 33. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Water users in S.B. may see $36 increase per quarter
BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer South Brunswick residents could get hit with a 17.6 percent increase in their water rates starting next quarter. The rate hike, which could amount to a $35.50 increase per quarter for the average use of 25,000 gallons per quarter, or an increase from $201.50 to $237, is needed to close…
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Council has mixed opinions over mixed-use ordinance
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Two North Brunswick Township Council members voted against the introduction of an ordinance that would create a transit-oriented, mixed-use development overlay for the proposed transit village site on Route 1. During the April 5 council meeting, Councilwoman Cathy Nicola and Councilman Bob Corbin voted against the introduction of the new…
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New flagship Motor Vehicle Agency opens in S.B.
BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer The new Motor Vehicle Agency (MVA) that opened last week in Dayton has been labeled a flagship facility compared to its affiliates across the state. State and local officials joined Raymond P. Martinez, the acting chief administrator for the Motor Vehicle Commission, as he marked the grand opening of the…
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‘Driving’ force behind annual car show is tradition
Preregistration available for April 25 North Brunswick Cops & Rodders show BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The theme of this year’s Cops & Rodders car show will be Sweet 16, in commemoration of the show’s 16th year. North Brunswick Police Officer Joseph Grasso, whose father, retired Patrolman Michael Grasso Jr., initiated the…
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‘Give me back that Filet- O-Fish, give me that fish’
Man accused of jumping through McDonald’s window for sandwich turns himself in Rashon East SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Rashon East, 34, of New Brunswick, turned himself in to South Brunswick police at 11:30 a.m. April 5. East was caught on surveillance camera at the McDonald’s restaurant on Route 1 in South Brunswick around 4:30 a.m. March…
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NBTHS to perform ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ this weekend
Scene-stealers include speaking and singing in Chinese dialects, singing as past as possible BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The North Brunswick Township High School Alchemist Theatre Company will present “Thoroughly Modern Millie” this weekend as its annual spring musical. “Millie” is the story of a young, modern woman arriving in New York…
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State transportation head tells teens about new law
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Pam Fischer, director of the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety (DHTS), does not want to hear another tragic story like that of Kyleigh D’Alessio. Kyleigh was just 16 years old when she was killed in a motor vehicle accident in December 2006 in Washington Township, Morris County. She was…
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Monmouth Junction man involved in extortion plot
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A man from Monmouth Junction has been charged with engaging in an extortion plot and a scheme to obstruct a federal investigation, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. Trinath Chigurupati, 36, of Monmouth Junction, and Sateesh Yalamanchili, 38, of Wood Dale, Ill., are charged in a two-count criminal complaint related to…
