Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Township honors community members with proclamations
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The Tirumala family NORTH BRUNSWICK – The Township Council presented several proclamations to community residents at itsMay 19 public meeting. First, TisyaMavyram, a student at LinwoodMiddle School, will participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee inWashington, D.C., onMay 29 and 30. She was one of 10 million students who entered…
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Lyme disease patients share their struggles
Say early treatment does not bring them out of the woods BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Alaina Rubin has not been in school for three years. As a 14-year-old, she should be going to the mall and playing sports at Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick. She should be able to think critically and problem-solve,…
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N.J. among states hardest hit by Lyme disease
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that can cause debilitating symptoms, is caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Lyme and other tick-borne diseases include anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, bartonella, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia. They can cause headaches, cranial neuropathy, lymphocytic meningitis,…
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New head of N.J. School Boards Association eager to get to work
BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Harry Delgado SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Harry Delgado was recently named president of the New Jersey School BoardsAssociation, and now he’s looking ahead to starting his work. Delgado has been amember of the township Board of Education for 13 years and is a former president of theMiddlesex County School Boards Association.…
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Researchers testing potential treatment for schizophrenia
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer For the past five years, lead researchers Dr. StevenM. Silverstein, ofMetuchen, and Dr. Stephanie Marcello, of Princeton, with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)- University Behavioral Healthcare, Newark, have been applying a reward-based learning and attention-shaping method to enhance skills training in schizophrenia patients. “People with…
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New Jersey residents warned to beware of ‘Nigerian’ scam
The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs received more than 60 complaints from advance fee scam victims last year and residents are cautioned to be wary if a stranger asks them to assist in transferring funds from overseas bank accounts. The advance fee scam, sometimes called the Nigerian scam, involves a con artist who typically…
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Police: Man climbs through ceiling after caught videotaping in rest room
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 28-yearold Jamesburg man was arrested at the Wakefern warehouse on Tower Road in Dayton on Saturday for videotaping women using the rest room, according to a police press release. Juan C. Torres was found in one of the women’s bathrooms trying to use his cell phone to videotape women using the…
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Beavers and raccoons and porcupines – oh my!
Puppets boost pupils’ awareness of conflict resolution, diversity BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer For the past two months, puppets have played a large role at Parsons Elementary School, North Brunswick. ERIC SUCAR staff Jennifer Smith, a prevention educator from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of Middlesex County, answers questions from an eager…
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So. Brunswick tax rate will remain stable
Dipping into surplus, collecting delinquent taxes help keep rate flat BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer The South Brunswick municipal tax rate will not increase this year. The budget was introduced at the May 27 Township Council meeting, and taxes will remain at the same rate as last year, despite a decrease of $416,000 in state…
