Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • GOP: We’ll be board’s ‘badly needed conscience’

    Geoffrey Champion, Andrew Tidd seek freeholder seats BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Geoffrey Champion The Republican candidates for Middlesex County freeholder are looking to restore a system of checks and balances to the board with their election Tuesday. Candidates Geoffrey Champion and Andrew Tidd say the first focus of their campaign…

  • An OASIS in a poor and volatile country

    Local nonprofit supports small orphanage in Haiti BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Luceanna Moore spends time with children in the Haitian orphanage that her organization OASIS funds. FRANKLIN – In the U.S., $30 can buy tee time at a golf course, a couple of cocktails or a decent pair of jeans.…

  • Police encourage parents to obtain child ID cards

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO The North Brunswick Police Department used its new mobile command center for a child identification program at Oak Leaf Village on Saturday. NORTH BRUNSWICK – A child identification program was held by the township Police Department on Saturday, the first time the department’s new…

  • Sides in debate differ on open space, growth

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Democratic Mayor Frank Gambatese and Councilman Chris Killmurray debate their Republican opponents at the South Brunswick municipal building on Monday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor and council locked horns on Monday during a debate moderated by the League…

  • Court: Same-sex couples must have equal rights

    State Legislature has six months to decide what to call institution BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer TOMCAIAZZA John Tomlicky, executive director of the League of American Families, announced the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriages, and called for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. TRENTON – The New Jersey Supreme…

  • Local couples see ruling as an incomplete victory

    Area legislators say they’ll consult public on what to do next BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Sarah (far left) and Suyin (far right) Lael pose with their daughters Tenaj (l) and Zenzali. The Laels were one of seven plaintiffs in the New Jersey Supreme Court case regarding whether to…

  • Fantastic phantoms and the man who jams lights

    Rutgers Rarities students share latest stories of the paranormal in Middlesex BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – R.U. brave enough to handle this? Rutgers University graduate student Jessica Teal visited McKinney Hall on the College Avenue campus in August. The building, built in 1915, had its roof struck by…

  • Group seeks 365 reasons to celebrate N.J.

    EAST BRUNSWICK – You may prefer the miles of white sandy beaches along the Jersey Shore or the mountainous region in the northwestern part of the state. Maybe you like the quaint eateries in the central part of the state. There may be another reason you enjoy calling New Jersey home. That reason could make…

  • Gambatese seeks new term as mayor

    Woods Cleary hopes to break Democrats’ hold on S.B. government BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Frank Gambatese After staving off a stiff challenge in the June Democratic primary, South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese will now defend his office against Republican challenger Lynda Woods Cleary. For Woods Cleary, a money manager from…