Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Capping off a celebration
CHRIS KELLY staff Michele Petersen, of Somerset, helps her children, Samantha and John, make Abe Lincoln’s hat during a birthday celebration for the former president at the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture in North Brunswick on Saturday.
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N.B. approves daycare center, residential lots
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK- Applications for a childcare center and office building on Old Georges Road and an 11-lot subdivision on Church Lane were approved by the township Planning Board on Feb. 12. Shah InvestmentsAssociates proposed an office building for Block 226, Lots 11 and 12 at 345 Old Georges Road. Problems…
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Artist’s paintings are donated to local temple
BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer A painting of Moses holding the Ten Commandments SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Worldrenowned artist Leon Bibel spent much of his life in South Brunswick, and now two of his paintings have been donated to Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick, where Bibel’s family had roots. “Bibel lived in our community formany,…
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More than meets the eye
CHRIS KELLY staff A 1.8 million-square-foot Trammel-Crowe warehouse is being built on Davidson Mill Road at the intersection of Cranbury-South River Road in South Brunswick.
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Tractor-trailer crashes into gas station
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A tractortrailer crashed into a dump truck at about 7:15 a.m. on Feb. 14 on Route 1 South near Deans Lane. The driver of the tractor-trailer fell asleep going into the gas station and rearended the truck, according to police Detective Jim Ryan. The tractor-trailer slid into a Valero gas station and…
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N.B. station viable with or without MOM line
Town still moving toward rail line and transit village on Rt. 1 north BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The former Johnson & Johnson property, on Route 1, lies between train tracks on the left and Route 1 on the right. NORTH BRUNSWICK – In the past year since community workshops were held to discuss redeveloping…
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Fundraiser is music to the library staff’s ears
NBTHS student to hold benefit performance on Sunday BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A township high school sophomore will add some rhythm to the library with a fundraiser Sunday. Rishi Tirumala decided he wanted to contribute to the library in some fashion because of the important role it plays in his life,…
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CHRIS KELLY staff A CPR marathon was held Saturday in which participants 10 years and older learned how to save a person’s life. The marathon was held at St. Augustine Canterbury School in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick.
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CD-ROM is the result of a seven-year ‘Journey’
Music, photos, interviews show African-American churches and cemeteries BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Lawrence Walker SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Lawrence Walker has clearly done a lot of work. Seven years of work, to be exact. Seven years of interviewing, filming, capturing photographs and researching slavery and the underground railroad. Now he will be releasing the tangible…
