Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Police: Local burglaries connected

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Fourteen nighttime burglaries have been linked together by local authorities. The South Brunswick Police Department along with the Princeton Township, Princeton Borough, Cranbury Township and Piscataway police departments as well as theMiddlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, have discovered that the burglaries, which occurred between April 12 and May 29, are connected. According to…

  • Youth Sports Festival rolls into town next week

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Looking down Route 1, drivers do not usually see a petting zoo, alligators, pig racing and a clown, but that is all set to change next week. Starting Wednesday, June 18, the North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival Committee will present its 11th annual carnival on the grounds…

  • County transportation group rewards ‘smart’ employers

    Middlesex County’s nonprofit transportation management association has designated 17 local employers as NJ Smart Workplaces. Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., working with the state Department of Transportation, awarded the businesses, towns and other organizations at aMay 13 ceremony. Companies can earn the prestigious NJ Smart Workplace designation by providing and supporting employee transportation programs for reducing…

  • DEP has issues with MOM rail line

    Commuter train running through battlefield seen as potential problem BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer AMay 19, 2008, letter from an official with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Parks and Forestry, may put a serious crimp in plans for a commuter train alignment that would run through Manalapan along Route 522. The…

  • Rabid animal count climbing

    A skunk tested positive for rabies in Monroe, Middlesex County, in the vicinity of Linwood Drive and Cranbury Station Road. This is the fifth rabid animal reported within Middlesex County for 2008. On May 22, the Monroe Police Department received a report that a skunk was acting aggressively. The skunk went into a dog pen…

  • NJDOT promotes hwy. safety

    State Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Kris Kolluri kicked off Memorial Day and the shore summer season by reiterating the DOT’s commitment to highway safety and encouraging motorists to exercise caution as they enjoy the upcoming summer season. “As we welcome the summer season, NJDOT is promoting safety by suspending construction on state highways, expanding…

  • New Jersey farmers harvest local-grown movement

    Thinking globally, more New Jerseyans are expected to buy local produce this growing season. ERIC SUCAR staff Dave Burlew and his fiancée, Tara Keegan, harvest purple bok choy on May 29 at the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm on Nurko Road in Roosevelt. The farm has 120 shareholders this year. New Jersey has an expanding…

  • E.B. girl, 10, twirls her way to N.J. championship

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Allie Warren EAST BRUNSWICK – Her mom twirled a baton at the Rose Bowl, and if Allie Warren keeps going at this rate, she too may be twirling at Bowl games someday. Allie, a 10-year-old student at Memorial Elementary School, recently won the New Jersey State Baton Championship in her…

  • Passing the torch

    ERIC SUCAR staff North Brunswick Police Officer John Hanrahan continues the 25th annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics down Route 27 in North Brunswick on Friday. The run began in North Jersey and continued down to The College of New Jersey where the cauldron was lit for the opening ceremony of the Special…