Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Corzine plan may take heavy toll on local traffic

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to dramatically increase tolls on the Turnpike, Parkway andAtlantic City Expressway, as well as placing a toll on Route 440, has some people worried about the impact the proposal might have on nearby nontoll roads. The scrutiny comes in the wake of the governor’s controversial plan…

  • South Brunswick Twp. facing rising water rates

    Mayor is unhappy with request for proposed increase of 23 percent BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – New Jersey American Water has requested an increase of about 23 percent for theirwater rates, and South Brunswick is one of the 10 towns in Middlesex County that will be affected. “It is a real impact…

  • Holocaust survivor tells of concentration camps

    Tells H.S. students to never give up, think positive, stop hating BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Holocaust survivor Frida Herskovits lights a candle at one of the ovens used to burn victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. She went back to visit the site in 1994. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Frida…

  • Two suspects arrested for assault

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK- Two Franklin men have been arrested for stabbing a township resident on Jan. 5, police said. Lee Capers, 22, and Donald Harris, 19, were arrested on Jan. 11 and charged with aggravated assault with a weapon. According to a press release fromSouth Brunswick police, the incident occurred around 11 p.m. in the parking…

  • Family tells of N.B. legacy cut too short

    The Otkens, in town since the 1890s, recallmemories of Edwin A. Otken, 37 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Edwin A. Otken worked on his family’s farm on Route 130 in North Brunswick as a teenager, setting up a corn stand at age 14, top left, and driving the tractors. InMay, he married Kirsten Abrahamsen, who…

  • Lawmakers pass new school-funding formula

    State aid could increase funding 20 percent in North & South Brunswick BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Lawmakers in the state Senate and General Assembly narrowly passed a bill that would radically alter the way that state aid is apportioned to local school districts, after a tooth-and-nail struggle that, as one assemblyman observed, fell mostly…

  • Middlesex Co. unveils $398 million budget

    Freeholder director calls for a public convention to assist in tax reform BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – The Middlesex County Freeholder Board unveiled a $398 million budget proposal on Jan. 10 that calls for the reduction of appropriations to below-2007 levels and a hiring freeze on nonessential county employees. The draft budget…

  • Farmers’ feed-the-needy effort survives setback

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EASTBRUNSWICK- Alocal farmmay be able to give food toNewJersey’s poor after all. Recent state cutbacks threatened to end a program whereby farms throughout the state give 1.5 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables to 6,000 needy New Jerseyans each year. The program, New Jersey FarmersAgainstHunger,was dependant on $100,000 fromthe…

  • Pool time

    JEFF GRANIT staff South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese cues up his pool stick during a game against Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac at the South Brunswick Senior Center. The South Brunswick and Woodbridge pool clubs got together for a friendly game on Jan. 11. For more photos, see page 3. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above:…