Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Court says COAH plans due this year

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer The state appeals court has denied a motion filed by the New Jersey League of Municipalities (NJLM) to postpone a deadline for municipalities to prepare their affordable housing plans. The ruling, made in the Appellate Division of the state’s Superior Court, enforces a deadline set by the state’s Council on…

  • Economy aside, bank still set on Forney site

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Though Valley National Bank is feeling the squeeze of the economic crisis, it will continue its efforts to raze the historic Forney Clinic building in Milltown and replace it with a bank branch. “I can tell you that they are pursuing it just as zealously as they have in the…

  • S.B. woman faces allegations of filing false report

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police issued a complaint against a Monmouth Junction woman regarding allegations that she made a false report against a local police officer. Police issued Leena S. Davis a summons complaint for allegedly making false reports to authorities on Nov. 6. The charge stems from a citizen complaint Davis reportedly filed alleging that…

  • Improper storage causes apartment fire in S.B.

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A local fire deputy has determined that improperly stored combustible items were the cause of a recent fire at a township apartment. Firefighters were able to extinguish what was left of the fire, which occurred in the town’s Monmouth Junction section at 11:20 p.m. Nov. 12. Residents…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff Sammi Penick (l-r), Jason Haberman and Kelly McGeary run through a scene from “And Then There Were None,” the production the North Brunswick Township High School Alchemist Theatre Company will be performing Nov. 21 and 22.

  • Democrats reappointed to No. Bruns. Council

    Robert Corbin and Robert Davis elected to third terms BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Democratic incumbents Robert Corbin and Robert Davis were reelected to their third terms on the North Brunswick Township Council on Nov. 4. Corbin, 63, and Davis, 63, defeated Republican candidates Mary Chyb and Rick Criqui by a margin of about 2-1.…

  • N.B. to continue leaf collection through Dec.

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer North Brunswick Township Department of Public Works (DPW) will be collecting leaf bags through the end of December. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above: North Brunswick Department of Public Works employee Joe DePasquale stuffs the back of a garbage truck with bags of collected leaves. Below: The Department of Public…

  • N.B. library receives copy of book honoring Pat Tillman

    Resident Tom Salva donated autographed copies to the twp. BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JENNIFER AMATO Township resident Tom Salva has donated copies of “Boots on the Ground By Dusk,” written by Mary Tillman about her son Pat who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004, to North Brunswick Township. Salva brought his son…

  • ‘ShelterBox’ project aids victims of natural disasters

    BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent NEW BRUNSWICK — The local Rotary Club of New Brunswick welcomed a visitor from England to discuss his “ShelterBox” project, which seeks to help victims of natural disasters. The idea was developed by Tom Henderson, whose inspiration came while watching a report on the news back in 2000. “I saw coverage…