Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Reading club, ‘Project Runway’ at S.B. Library
South Brunswick Public Library has begun its summer reading club for students in grade six through 12. There will be various teen events, and prizes. Teens are required to track time spent reading after signing up at the library. As an incentive, librarian Saleena Davidson has offered a challenge. If the teens in the program…
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Along for the ride
PHOTOSBY JEFF GRANIT staff From top to bottom: Ashliegh Bobbitt (l-r), Alexis Middeton, Jordan Davis and Danah Lassiter take a ride on the Spin Out during the 10th annual Youth Sports Festival at DeVry University in North Brunswick. The carnival, held this year from June 13 to 17, raises money to support the various sports…
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Ready for takeoff
ERIC SUCAR staff Romesh Nissangaratchie (l) of Kendall Park fine-tunes one of his planes during an open house held by the Tri-County Radio Control Club at Heavenly Farms in East Brunswick on Saturday. The event invited the public to see the club’s planes, watch flying demonstrations and even try flying with the club’s planes using…
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Fight breaks out over cell phone use in library
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Police were called in to break up a physical altercation between a 15-year-old boy and a man thought to be somewhere around the age of 50 on June 12 outside the public library. At 6:50 p.m., officers arrived at the library and found the South Brunswick teen who had been involved in…
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District said to have met improvement goals
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The school district has completed the majority of the many goals it had set for itself at the beginning of the school year. A presentation given during the Board of Education’s Monday meeting went over the highlights of the completed district goals. Superintendent…
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Club books flights for Saturday in E. Bruns
Radio-control club to hold ‘open house’ at Heavenly Farms BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – – Don’t tell a member of the Tri-County Radio Control Club to go fly a kite. The club members would instead prefer to fly radio-controlled airplanes, and anyone interested is free to join them…
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So. Bruns. delivers FedEx good news
Planning Board OKs distribution center for Stults Road property BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO A new FedEx distribution center will soon be located at the site of this former pesticide factory on Stults Road, South Brunswick. The South Brunswick Planning Board approved what will soon become a new Federal…
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State reaches uneasy compromise on open space
Legislature to bond extra funding until long-term solution is agreed on BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Efforts to renew the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT) through a November ballot referendum faltered as the Legislature missed the deadline to approve the necessary resolutions last week. While some environmental groups wish to pressure…
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Petitioners oppose link between Rts. 1 & 130
Transit village plan calls for connector road through Renaissance BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A petition opposing access from the proposed transit village on the Johnson & Johnson property on Route 1 North via Renaissance Boulevard has already garnered over 200 signatures. A paper version of the petition…
