Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Animal hospital is just what the doctor ordered

    JEFF GRANIT staff Dr. Ehab Ibrahim takes a look inside the mouth of a 6-month-old cat named Face during an appointment at the newly opened Jamesburg Veterinary Hospital. JAMESBURG – Area animals can rest at ease. Dr. Ehab Ibrahim has opened the Jamesburg Veterinary Hospital, the first place in town to offer medical care to…

  • For the Record

    In the article “Purchased dirt will go toward HS fields” in the Nov. 15 Sentinel, the $176,356 listed as the purchase price for 7,000 cubic yards of soil left over from the North Brunswick Township High School construction project was actually for a series of change orders including the importation of compactible dirt, crushed stone,…

  • Harassment charge filed against driving instructor

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A driving school instructor was charged with harassment on Jan. 4 for kissing a 16-year-old female student fromWestWindsor. Mohammed Salim, 49, of East Windsor, works at the Popular Driving School on Georges Road. According to police spokesman Detective Jim Ryan, the victim was scheduled for a driving…

  • New rules call for more S.B. affordable housing

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK- The New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) has released its new rules regarding affordable housing, and the town’s politicians are not happy about it. “The rules establish a need of 115,000 units of affordable housing through 2018,” ChrisDonnelly, a spokesman forCOAH, said of the number of units…

  • Report favors increased federal regulation of tobacco

    Analysis says move would save country, state billions of dollars BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NEWBRUNSWICK- A new report released by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says that if the U.S. Congress passes legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] new authority to regulate tobacco products, the new law would save the…

  • 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…

  • For the Record

    The front-page article “Cops: Drunken driver caused fatal crash” in the Jan. 3 Sentinel was written by South Brunswick reporter Chris Murino. There was no attribution listed.