Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Cornfield will become new Hyundai warehouse
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Planning Board approved a new 352,812-square-foot warehouse almost right outside New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8A. The warehouse, to be built by the company Forsgate, will be occupied exclusively by the Hyundai car company, which will use the facility to store parts for its vehicles. It will also contain a training area…
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Police enforcing seat-belt crackdown until June 3
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer New Jersey has among the highest rate of seat-belt use in the nation at about 90 percent in 2006, but local police feel residents could do better. With this in mind, the North and South Brunswick police departments have begun a two-week seat-belt crackdown as part…
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Holt: Bush approach to war on terror is ‘deadly’
Democrat congressman critical of administration on health care, education BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Congress-man Rush Holt held a town meeting on Saturday to discuss issues affecting the people of the township, the county and the state. About 50 residents attended the meeting, held in the courtroom of…
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Let the Islamic Games begin
Muslims from throughout the Northeast to gather in So. Brunswick Saturday BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – More than 600 Muslim student-athletes from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania will play and pray at Saturday’s 2007 Islamic Games. Held at Crossroads South Middle School, the event will feature…
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Three flashing incidents reported in same vicinity
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Maybe it was the weather. It’s difficult to believe that such a thing would have happened in the cold winter’s chill. But as the spring turned the air from frigid to mild, one man took a chance to show township residents what he…
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Officers recognized for outstanding police work
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer North Brunswick police Capt. Michael Misurell reads various lifesaving awards and letters of commendation during the Police Week ceremony, held on May 17 to honor fallen heroes and current officers. NORTH BRUNSWICK – The police department honored the lives of their fallen heroes during their annual…
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Sleep gives under-the-covers look into mind’s secrets
Library seminar decodes the meanings, causes of dreams BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A dream is a wish your heart makes. But what are dreams? Are they real? Can you change them? What is their purpose? Steve Pitts hosted a presentation titled “Dreams: Windows to Heaven” on Saturday…
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An animated discussion
Cartoonist shows Judd students how to turn sketches into movies BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The faces of the fourth- and fifth-graders at Judd Elementary School were certainly animated on Monday as J.P. Somersaulter, a filmmaker from Chicago, shared his secrets to movie-making success. Lights, Camera, Curriculum taught…
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NJ Transit vote gets usual mixed reviews
MOM rail line to be studied further in light of tunnel proposal Citing the need for transit investments to be made in Ocean and Monmouth counties, officials in both counties praised NJ Transit’s recent decision to provide additional funding to study a proposed passenger rail line. In Middlesex County meanwhile, Freeholder Director David B. Crabiel…
