Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Soldiers get sweet treat before deployment
St. Augustine’s women’s group and Entenmann’s distribute cakes to troops BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Columbiettes, a group based out of St. Augustine’s of Canterbury Church in Kendall Park, made a trip to Fort Dix recently to help out troops who were being deployed to the Persian Gulf. According to Mary…
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County puts park project out to bid
Rec. facility will be built on North Brunswick- Milltown border BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders has authorized the solicitation of bids to build a new recreation facility off Route 1 bordering North Brunswick and Milltown on land it purchased in 2004 for this purpose. The…
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Discussions continue about possible Dayton town center
BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Plans have begun to take place to improve the township of Dayton, five months after a community design workshop was held by the Dayton Village Citizens Coalition. Joan Luckhardt, of the coalition, talked about the progress that has been made. “The developers have been busy trying to…
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I pledge allegiance
The Elks Lodge 324 in North Brunswick celebrated Flag Day on June 14. Cub Scout Pack 19 of New Brunswick participated in the celebration.
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Graduation 2008
Christina Ha looks into the stands to her friends and family during the 2008 South Brunswick High School commencement exercise, held at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton on June 23. CHRIS KELLY STAFF
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S.B. adopts $49.5M budget
GOP in town claims too much surplus being used BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer T he South Brunswick Township Council unanimously approved the $49.5 millionmunicipal budget at its meeting on June 24. The tax rate will be 62.5 cents per $100 assessed value, as it was last year. Overall spending did increase from last year’s…
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Hungry for relief
Worldwide food crisis hits home; higher prices compound gas costs BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Steve Jacobson, owner of the Amboy Deli in Metuchen, strikes an upbeat and genial demeanor when talking about his business over the phone. But there is a hint of frustration as well, a frustration shared by people all over the…
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Hidden-Gems in the park
Top to bottom: Sundari Nagarajan, of South Brunswick, snaps her fingers to the beat of Hidden-Gems as they performed Bollywood music as part of the Summer Outdoor Concert Series at Beech Woods Park in South Brunswick, on Friday. Rhea Pallaith, 2, of North Brunswick, dances by the side of her mom, Seena, and dad, Sharad.…
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N.B. soldier fundraises for Marine Corps scholarship
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – An Iraq veteran who will be deployed again in 2009 is currently fundraising in support of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Maj. Christopher Ieva, 34, a 1991 graduate of the North Brunswick Township High School, is seeking donations to the foundation, which helps the children of fallen,…
