Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • S.B. school budget reduced by $1 million

    Capital projects cut; salary increases, new asst. principal post left alone BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer The South Brunswick Board of Education approved a list of reductions that would decrease the budget by $1,026,617, as recommended by the Township Council. The total tax levy certified by the municipal government is now $93,923,003. Most of the…

  • S.B. has its own learning experience with application

    Plans to build The Learning Experience day care finally approved BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK- A revised application to build a day-care facility and office building on Route 1 received approval from the Planning Board onMay 7. Gautam Partners had appeared before the board twice, but the board had many concerns about the…

  • Husband honors wife’s memory with foundation

    The Amy Foundation raises money to help women getmammograms BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A township man who lost his wife to breast cancer has started an organization so that other people may not have to go through the intense pain that he and his family have. Arie Behar’s wife, Amy, was…

  • Council recommends $1 million reduction of N.B. school budget

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A $1 million reduction in the township school budget is being proposed by a township council subcommittee. The number was released at Monday night’s workshop meeting. Because the 4.6-cent budget was defeated by 51 votes during elections on April 15, the council had to decide how to…

  • Fatal accident on Docks Corner Road Monday

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 60-yearold South River man was killed early Monday morning after a head-on collision with another vehicle on Route 535 at Docks Corner Road, according to a police press release. The victim, Henry Clyburn, was driving a 1996 Saturn northbound when his vehicle crossed over the double yellow line and hit a…

  • Step by step

    Above: Brent Lane (l) and Robert Mattei, of the North Brunswick Department of Public Works, install storm-drain-inlet retrofit plates at 256 Garner Road on May 7 as part of the township’s storm-water management program. The retrofit plates should help keep debris, bottles and litter from entering the stormdrain inlet, thereby enhancing the quality of storm…

  • N.B. DPW decides not to collect garbage in-house

    Suggests a contract withWasteManagement for pickup BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The township Department of Public Works said a contract with Waste Management would be the most cost-effective method of collecting solid waste in town. The recommendation was made by department Director Glenn Sandor at Monday night’s Township Council workshop meeting, a…

  • N.B. superintendent of schools overcomes first-year challenges

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A major storm with flooding, a lockdown situation at the township high school and a defeated school budget didn’t scare off Superintendent of Schools Brian Zychowski. And that was just his first month. Zychowski was appointed to the position last April and has witnessed a whirlwind of…

  • Rockin’ the Garden State

    GARY GELLMAN Bruce Springsteen performs on the stage of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on May 4, with a little help from actor Danny DeVito, to close the first induction ceremony of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Springsteen, a native of Freehold Borough who has rocked the world for four decades,…