Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Poetry reading, lecture slated at S.B. Library

    The South Brunswick Public Library and the South Brunswick Arts Commission will continue their Sunday afternoon poetry reading series Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. at the library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. The reading will feature the poetry of New Jersey natives Alicia Ostriker and Eliot Katz. Ostriker, Princeton, a poet…

  • For first time, voting to go all-electronic in N.J.

    While many see move as progress, others fear it risks election fraud BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer At the dawn of democracy, the first ballot was the arm. Ancient Athenians would vote on matters, yes or no, simply by raising them. As time went on and populations increased, the needs of…

  • Verizon Wireless opens North Brunswick store

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – More township residents will be asking, “Can you hear me now?” as a new Verizon Wireless communications store celebrated its grand opening on Cozzens Lane and Route 1 on Oct. 20. The North Brunswick store is the 10th to open in Middlesex County…

  • When two doors won’t open, they make a third

    Emergency responders practice extricating victims from vehicles BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rescue team members get ready to start dismantling a wrecked vehicle during extrication training at the North Brunswick First Aid & Rescue Squad on Sunday. Ten North Brunswick First Aid & Rescue Squad team members became a…

  • Deer enters Rt. 1 store

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – The buck stopped here at Bed, Bath & Beyond on Oct. 19. According to police, a deer came running into the Route 1 housewares and bedding store at 3:57 p.m. on Oct. 19. The animal was found in the back section of the store, bleeding from the mouth with its tongue hanging…

  • N.B. candidates outline positions before voters

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Matthew “Skip” House NORTH BRUNSWICK – The four candidates for Township Council participated in a debate on Friday in the municipal courtroom. Questions were submitted by attendees prior to the debate, and the answers were moderated by the Rev. Mark McGrath of the Family Worship Center…

  • Hundreds Care to Walk in North Brunswick

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer SCOTT FRIEDMAN Alyson Angstreich, president of the Care to Walk Club at North Brunswick Township High School, shares an emotional moment with her grandmother, Diana Coopersmith, a cancer survivor, at the Care to Walk event to benefit breast and ovarian cancer research, at the high school…

  • Someone to look up to

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Tatiana Huertas, 6, of South Brunswick, waits for her balloon animal from Benjamin Lipman at the Tailgate Trick-or-Treat event in South Brunswick on Sunday.

  • Dems pledge to improve efficiency, education

    Incumbents Pulomena, Polos say they’re proud of their accomplishments BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer James Polos Constituents, then county, then party. That is the order of priority the current Middlesex County Democratic freeholders say they have taken when handling their position. Incumbents H. James Polos and John Pulomena are hoping to…