Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Bodybuilders arm robot builders with over $2K

    Competition raises funds for award-winning NBTHS team’s travels BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Clockwise from top: Larry Tidwell (l) prepares for the National Gym Association bodybuilding competition at the North Brunswick Township High School on Saturday, getting help from his friend, Kenneth Washington. A female bodybuilder stands before the judges. Eric…

  • Former Opus warehouse approved for expansion

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO The former Opus warehouse, as seen from Davidsons Mill Road in South Brunswick, will undergo a nearly 200,000-square-foot expansion. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Planning Board approved a large warehouse expansion off Davidsons Mill Road, with officials vowing that they would seek new, creative ways…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Club collects used bikes for poor around world

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – For a moment, stop and think: If you didn’t have a car, how many everyday tasks would you no longer be able to do? The fact that a great deal of mundane tasks require an automobile of some kind is often taken for…

  • Students, teacher keep up fight vs. multiple sclerosis

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer In what has become an annual effort supported by Freehold High School students, teacher Rennie Rankin (second from right) was joined by students from the high school in the MS Walk held at the Errickson School, Freehold Township. Rennie Rankin may have what some…

  • The runaround

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN While their father pitches their tent, Kyle and Devin Bongiovanni chase each other at the fourth annual North Brunswick Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services’ Community Camp Out, held Saturday night at Sabella Park.

  • Washington stayed and children played here

    Historic Rockingham hosts demonstrations of Colonial games and toys BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Nyima Shawa, 4, of Princeton, takes aim with Charlie Anderson, of Spring Lake Heights, at the Rockingham Place’s annual Children’s Day at the Rockingham Historic Site in Kingston on May 12. Unlike many popular…

  • Drunken-driving goggles keep students off balance

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Above: Carlton Brathwaite, a junior at North Brunswick Township High School, tries to navigate a set course while wearing Fatal Vision goggles, which simulate impaired driving. While Brathwaite runs over a set of cones, Patrolman Jason Hatez holds on for dear life. Below: Jenna Logan tries…