Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • N.B. library will remain open during renovations

    $214K ‘spruce up’ will take place Dec. 1 through beginning of new year BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer From top to bottom: Linwood Middle School students work in the current computer room of the North Brunswick Township Public Library, which will soon be moved during the renovation project scheduled for next…

  • For all-Muslim troop, scouting has merits

    Members say typical exercises carry practical and spiritual value BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer CHRIS GAETANO (Left to right) Yassine Ezzyat, 16, Ibrahem Catovic, 16, Osman Turan, 16, and Ismael Catovic, 13, are members of New Jersey’s only all-Muslim Boy Scout troop, based in South Brunswick SOUTH BRUNSWICK – They can…

  • Van flips while carrying handicapped passengers

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A van carrying six handicapped passengers struck and split a utility pole on Ridge Road before flipping onto its side on Nov. 21. The accident, which took place near the intersection of Ridge and Georges roads, happened around 2:30 p.m., after which several…

  • French posters at center of Zimmerli exhibition

    The 1893 lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “Divan Japonais,” is part of the Zimmerli exhibition, which opens Saturday in New Brunswick. NEW BRUNSWICK – The Zimmerli Art Museum recently opened the largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date dealing with French posters from the early 19th century Romantic period to the Art Nouveau style of…

  • N.B. student returns to preteen scholar contest

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Linwood Middle School student Melissa Savin was a state semifinalist in the Pre-Teen New Jersey Scholarship & Recognition Program this year, receiving awards for outstanding achievement in the arts and the senior knowledgeability test. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Piano, cello, drums. Tap-dancing. Cheerleading, softball, basketball. Church choir.…

  • On Campus

    University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, announced the following local students who received degrees at the spring commencement exercises: Melissa Pe of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick; and Ravish Amin of North Brunswick. Byron Goundrey, North Brunswick, has been awarded a $1,500 Equal Opportunity Scholarship by the…

  • State chips in for local road projects

    S.B. gets $230K in aid, 415 additional spaces at park and ride BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer “From what some people have told me, it’s been hundreds of spaces short of what we needed.” – Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein D-Middlesex/Mercer South Brunswick is among six District 14 communities that will share $1.4…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Goldie Azimov (l) demonstrates one of several ways to make challah bread during a baking demonstration at the Chabad Jewish Center in North Brunswick on Nov. 16.

  • New rail cars accommodate more riders, and comfortably

    Multilevel commuter train cars to be in operation mid-Dec BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer PHOTOSCOURTESY OF NJ TRANSIT Mayor John McCormac of Woodbridge speaks at the dedication ceremony of nine of more than 200 new multilevel rail cars NJ Transit will add to the fleet by 2008. The commute to New…