Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • 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,…

  • Tensions flare between firm, council over rezone

    Ordinance is tabled to examine its vulnerability to potential lawsuits BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer At a controversial and contentious meeting, the South Brunswick Township Council decided to table a decision on an ordinance that would rezone properties along Route 130 and Friendship Road from an industrial to a residential area. “I take offense at…

  • Tile co. outlines changes to warehouse proposal

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A tile distribution company seeking to build new warehouse had its case heard for the third time before the Zoning Board on Oct. 4. Garden State Tile Distributors wants to construct a 64,000-square-foot building to be used as a warehouse and showroom to display its various tiles.…

  • Time capsule unearths mementos from 1950s

    Milltown residents recall early days of OLL school BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Ann Marie Rademacher-Simmons of Milltown holds a copy of the Sentinel from September 1957, recently unearthed in a time capsule Our Lady of Lourdes School. The lead story was about forming a full-time police force in East Brunswick,…

  • Defense questions role of ailments in child’s death

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Nikolas Chavez NEW BRUNSWICK – Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Seana Pappas made a chart of who 3-year-old Nikolas Chavez was with before his death in 2005. Neurologist Keith Meloff evaluated the child for developmental delays and possible seizures on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. The boy’s biological father, Nick Chavez, and…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Nunziato Sgro, portraying Christopher Columbus, waves to spectators during North Brunswick’s Columbus Day parade on Sunday.

  • Court hears of last efforts to save child

    Police testimony, 911 recordings heard at manslaughter trial BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Acall came into the North Brunswick Police Department dispatch center at 10:46 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005. “My fiancée’s son had a seizure or something.” “Right now he’s just … breathing but it’s, it’s erratic.” “He’s not being responsive.” “I’m just…

  • Teens accused of starting fire

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Three teenagers were charged with criminal mischief after setting the playground at Brunswick Acres School aflame just after 9 p.m. on Saturday. According to South Brunswick Police Detective James Ryan, it was determined that the three teens were playing with a pile of leaves at the playground on Kory Drive in Kendall…