Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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‘Shoppe’ til you drop
Top: Kate Sullivan, of Milltown, has her eye on a toy while shopping with her sister Emily and father Stephen at The Shoppes at North Brunswick on Saturday for the start of the holiday shopping season. Above: Friends Sara Friedman (l-r), Roz Karbane and Lisa Cohen, all of South Brunswick, get their second wind with…
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Williams-Sonoma to occupy warehouse space
Williams-Sonoma, a specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware, will move into South Brunswick and fill a warehouse to capacity sometime next year. The San Francisco-based corporation will move into a 1.4 million-square-foot warehouse on Middlesex Center Drive located near Davidsons Mill Road and Cranbury Road, according to South Brunswick Public Affairs Coordinator Ron…
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‘Over the Limit, Under Arrest’ DWI enforcement through Jan. 3
The “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” statewide campaign will be in effect from Dec. 7 to Jan. 3, as local and state law enforcement officers will be conducting sobriety checkpoints to look for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. Impaired drivers kill nearly 18,000 people each year across the country. In 2008, 152 people…
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Bands work in harmony to help feed the hungry
Greater Media’s Good Samaritan Bash will feature The Reveling with Jay Weinberg, and much more BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Music, merriment and good will to others contribute to the spirit of the holiday season. Greater Media wants to fuel that spirit by providing a way for people to enjoy good music, have some fun…
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Operation Medicine Cabinet takes drugs out of N.J. homes
Gerard P. McAleer, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Jersey Division, and Angelo M. Valente, the executive director of the Partnership for a Drug- Free New Jersey (PDFNJ), announced on Nov. 18 that more than 9,000 pounds of medicine, with a street value of more than $35 million, was…
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Two North Bruns. H.S. students receive Scholar awards
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Kelly Lalama NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services honored two students as the November Scholar Athlete Artist Award recipients during a Township Council meeting Nov. 16. Kelly Lalama is an honor roll student at North Brunswick Township High School. She is taking honors courses…
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Parsons Elementary students mix it up during lunch
Sit with new classmates in attempt to teach tolerance, inclusion BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Secondthrough fifth-grade students at Parsons Elementary School participated in the school’s fifth annual Mix It Up for Lunch Day on Nov. 24. The students each had a list of questions that asked about a person’s favorite food,…
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100th anniversary gives retailer P.C. Richard reason to celebrate
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer In a year of economic turmoil that has taken a toll on many businesses throughout the United States, one company found reason to celebrate. P.C. Richard and Son, an appliance and electronics retailer with 2,800 employees and stores in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is marking its 100th anniversary…
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Jury finds physician guilty of practicing without license
EAST BRUNSWICK — A local physician was convicted on charges he practiced medicine without a license and stole $122,000 from Medicare and about $28,000 from other insurance carriers. The verdict was reached after five hours of jury deliberation at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick Nov. 6. Benjamin Levine, 69, was also found guilty…
