Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Planners agree to major additions at Heller site

    Over 2.6M square feet of warehouse space to be built over next five years BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Planning Board has approved more than 2.6 million square feet of new warehouse space at the Heller complex, Ridge Road. The application called for a complex of four…

  • Girls scout out an ideal area for garden project

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Linsey Bodnar (l-r), 12, Amanda Cipriano, 11, and Elisabeth Martinez, 11, put together a garden for the residents of the Buckingham Place assisted living facility as part of their Bronze Star project in the Junior Girl Scouts. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Three Junior Girl Scouts added a…

  • Former factory site to be replaced by warehouse

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A lot that once contained an old, abandoned factory will now likely play host to a 481,730-square-foot warehouse. Presenting the application to the Planning Board June 20, Industrial Developments International (IDI) representatives said that the proposed facility represents the principles of smart growth…

  • Excitement ramps up with skate park debut

    Park free for anyone 7 and up; registration necessary at town hall BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Matt Overstron, 16, has a good time doing some rail slides at the new skate park at Reichler Park in South Brunswick on Saturday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Clack-clack. Whirrrrrr.…

  • Family will rebuild home destroyed by fire

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A family that was displaced as a result of a fire last summer will now be able to get their house back. On Aug. 17, a two-family dwelling on the corner of Cozzens Lane and the local connector road burned down due to…

  • Leaders call for boost to state open space funding

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer PLAINSBORO – Local leaders and civic groups said last week that the one-year funding source for the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT), set to run out this year, is not enough and called on the government to find a more permanent solution. The fund, which fuels…

  • NYC on the cheap

    Tour guide shares how to live up the Big Apple on a shoestring budget BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – New York City is full of expensive restaurants, expensive theater tickets, expensive nightclubs and expensive historical sites. Yet Howard Goldberg, the president of Adventure on a Shoestring, has several…

  • Principal comes out on top, despite losing bet

    Linwood’s Clark camps on roof when school exceeds charity goal BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO Principal Pete Clark spent Friday night sleeping on the roof of Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick after promising students that if they raised $500 for their million-penny project in a two-week period, he…

  • Alleged gang members charged in S.B. raid

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Brian Brown SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Police raided an alleged gang hideout on Jeffrey Circle early Tuesday morning, leading to the arrest of a suspect in a Kendall Park burglary and two others on drug- and weapons-related charges. Around midnight, about a dozen officers surrounded the three-bedroom…