Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Residents oppose plan for county landfill expansion

    Middlesex County to add three cells at Edgeboro Rd. site BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer Vermin, foul odors, garbage blowing all over. This is what neighbors of the Middlesex County Landfill, Edgeboro Road, say they’ve been putting up with for years. A proposal to expand the landfill has those residents wondering just how bad things…

  • Lawmakers face roadblocks on the hard road to success

    Some say system in Trenton must be changed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The idea that there is too much politics in Trenton has been around for so long, it has become a cliché. The familiar bugaboos of partisanship and petty rivalries disrupting the legislative process are well known and well despised. The jockeying for…

  • Towns by district

    About these statistics Staff members at Greater Media Newspapers recently studied the legislative records of each lawmaker in our coverage area for the 2006-07 legislative session. All figures were current as of Aug. 5, while the Legislature was on summer recess. The New Jersey Legislature’s Web site was used to chart the success of each…

  • Township wants more control of development

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Responding to complaints from residents, the South Brunswick Township Council introduced an ordinance that would force housing developers to submit their public offering statements for approval by the township manager before getting permission to build. A public offering statement (POS), in the context of residential development, is…

  • Shed fire still under investigation

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Township firefighters were dispatched to deal with a sudden shed fire Saturday. Around 11:45 p.m. that night, firefighters from the Monmouth Junction Fire Department were dispatched to the area of Route 535 between Deans Rhode Hall Road and Ridge Road for a reported forest fire. When they arrived, they found a 15-by-20-foot…

  • Turnpike widening the topic of upcoming hearings

    The New Jersey Turnpike Authority will be conducting a series of public hearings on the proposed widening of the turnpike from Exits 6 through 9, including an additional truck lane at Exit 8A. The widening project took the place of the controversial Route 92 proposal, which was heavily opposed by South Brunswick and other local…

  • Exhibit traces history of comic book superheroes

    Montclair Art Museum hosts one-of-a-kind tribute to genre BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer The American cultural phenomenon known as the comic book is getting the royal treatment at the Mont-clair Art Museum, Montclair, Essex County. Fans of this genre of entertainment will be coming from near and far between now and Jan. 13, 2008, to…