Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Home Depot in E.B. to close; clearance begins

    EAST BRUNSWICK – The Home Depot store at Route 18 and Racetrack Road is one of 15 “underperforming” locations that the hardware retail chain will close in the coming months. TheAtlanta-based company announced the closings last week when it unveiled a new strategic plan for square-footage growth. The company, seeking to improve free cash flow,…

  • Business gets ‘back’ to the basics of good posture

    Relax the Back offers products to relieve body aches BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JENNIFER AMATO Relax the Back, located at the Shoppes at North Brunswick, sells recliners, office chairs, mattresses and massage products designed to prevent and relieve back pain. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Sitting at a desk. Using a computer. Driving to…

  • Kids given a brainy idea to protect their heads

    Brain Injury Association and NBPD stress wearing helmets BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer STEVEN M. BARON Marie, a first-grader from Greenbrook Elementary School in Kendall Park, presented her illustrated writing at the 14th annual Authors Night May 8. NORTH BRUNSWICK- Wendy Berk held up an egg and recited the “Humpty Dumpty” nursery rhyme. “Humpty Dumpty…

  • County health dept. says raccoon tested positive for rabies

    A raccoon tested positive for rabies in Plainsboro last week. This is the fourth rabid animal reported within Middlesex County for 2008. On May 4, a resident reported to the police department that a raccoon was acting aggressively. The resident was chased by the animal and took defensive action, subsequently killing it. A positive specimen…

  • Three arrested, one man wanted for assault in park

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Two men were assaulted at Kingsley Park on New Road just after midnightMay 3, according to a police press release. Ryan Cleverly, 23, Derek Juarez, 23, Justin Perota, 25, and Jeff Shuke, 25, were charged with assaulting a 20-yearold and a 21-year-old male. The victims said they went to the park to…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Nick Genovese loses his balance as he tries to walk a straight line while wearing goggles that simulate drunken driving during the Driver Response Impaired Vision Exercise (DRIVE) program, hosted by the North Brunswick Traffic Safety Department at the North Brunswick Township High School on May 7. For story, see page 3.

  • Retail vacancies on rise on central N.J. corridors

    The vacancy rate in retail properties along central New Jersey’s four largest shopping corridors edged up to 4.7 percent in 2007 from 4.3 percent a year, according to an Old Bridge-based retail real estate brokerage. In its annual study of the markets along Routes 1, 9, 18 and 35, R.J. Brunelli & Co. Inc. found…

  • Bill could move school elections to Nov.

    Includes provision to eliminate the public vote on school budgets BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts has formally introduced legislation that would eliminate the state’s April school elections and would move school board member elections to November. The bipartisan measure was released on Monday by the Assembly Education Committee. Under the bill,…

  • NBPD navigates ways to avoid drunken driving

    Impaired driving simulated with goggles, golf carts BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer ‘Oh wait, I can’t see. Can you see?” Cenedra Delk asked her passenger. Above: Steven Romanchik, a senior at North Brunswick Township High School, looks cross-eyed because of the Fatal Vision goggles he is wearing as part of the Driver Response Impaired Vision…