Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Applicant: Proposed hotel would be a Hilton

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A firm proposing to build a new hotel made its case to the Zoning Board for the third time on Oct. 4. Hotel Investors hopes to build a fivestory, 116-room establishment on the South Brunswick-Monroe border off Interchange Plaza. The Monroe Zoning Board approved the plan in…

  • 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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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Timbo the Clown high-fives the crowd while riding his mini-unicycle at North Brunswick’s Heritage Day festival Saturday at Babbage Park. See page 16 for story.

  • Sides debate cause of 3-year-old’s death

    Trial begins of N.B. man accused of beating his godson to death BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The aggravated manslaughter trial has begun against Robert Knutsen, the former North Brunswick resident who is accused of beating his godson to death. Nikolas Chavez On Nov. 30, 2005, 3-year-old Nikolas Chavez was taken to Robert Wood Johnson…

  • Author finds Internet-age students wired differently

    Says consumerist culture has changed what youths expect from the classroom BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Angela McGlynn SOUTH BRUNSWICK – As the types of students attending college change, so, too, must the methods used to teach them, according to Kendall Park resident and recently published author Angela McGlynn. McGlynn’s book, “Teaching Today’s College Students,”…

  • Two injured in accident on motorcycle

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – A car and motorcycle were involved in a collision at the intersection of Route 130 and the ramp for Route 1 south at approximately 7:25 p.m. Monday. Michael Conrad, 31, of Colorado, and Jessica Henricks, 21, of Kendall Park, were on a motorcycle traveling on Route 130 northbound when they came into…