Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Candidate sues for being short-changed by FACE

    Third parties entitled to one-tenth the public funding Dems, GOP get BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer ALibertarian candidate for Assembly in the 14th District has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court because the public funding he’s receiving is significantly lower than that of his Democrat and Republican competitors. Jason Scheurer Jason Scheurer and his campaign…

  • Gift came early to Ghost Hunters co-founder

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer COURTESY OF GARDEN STATE GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY Members of the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society pose outside the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia before they prepare to investigate the 178-year-old prison. BRICK TOWNSHIP – The visions began when Boni Bates turned 5. The first-grader had gone to get something…

  • Haunted prison a place of sadness and despair

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Even the weather cooperated when the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society visited the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in June. Thunder boomed. Lightning flickered eerily from the skylights and across the stone walls of the medieval-looking prison built back in 1829. Except for their camera lights,…

  • Salesman charged with fraud

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 23-yearold car salesman was arrested and charged with identity theft and credit card fraud Oct. 10, according to a press release from the South Brunswick Police Department. Brandi Vasilijevic, who worked at Brad Benson Hyundai on Route 1, allegedly used a customer’s information to open credit cards in his own name.…

  • Intertribal group plans book discussion in park

    JAMESBURG – Intertribal American Indians of New Jersey will have a book discussion and craft presentation at its meeting Saturday at the log cabin in Thompson Park. The book, “The Celestial Bear Falls Down from Heaven,” is the work of a historian who researched the culture of Munsee and Delaware Indians, of New Jersey, New…

  • S.B. says hola iPods, adios tape recorders

    School district begins using music players in world language classes BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Go into a Spanish or French class in South Brunswick and you may be surprised to see some kids actually having fun in class. The public school district has started using iPods in their foreign language programs…

  • Middlesex Cty. puts brakes on use of some vehicles

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Middlesex County is cracking down on the use of county-issued cars for employees who live outside the county to get to and from work. Some 50 county cars will no longer be used for that purpose, according to Middlesex County Freeholder Director David B. Crabiel. There are about 230 county…

  • In the Service

    Steve J. Antonello graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) leader development and assessment course at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. Cadets in junior and senior year of college must complete the leadership development course. Upon successful completion of the course, the ROTC program, and graduation from college, cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants…

  • Neighbors fear effects of turnpike widening

    Residents say proposed truck lane will bring highway closer to homes BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer MILLTOWN – Florence Torok’s East Foch Avenue house is falling apart at the seams, and it will only get worse, they believe. Doors hang askew, and a family room added on is slowly separating from the rest of the…