Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • The bird is the word for Summer Reading Club

    Children get visit from a penguin at N.B. Public Library BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff To celebrate the end of the Summer Reading Club at the North Brunswick Township Public Library last Thursday, interpreter Danni Logue of Jenkinson’s Aquarium in Point Pleasant Beach educates the crowd of 200…

  • New member appointed to N.B. Zoning Board

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Don Adams NORTH BRUNSWICK – Don Adams, a former Board of Education candidate with a background as a certified public accountant and chief financial officer, has been chosen to fill a vacancy on the Zoning Board of Adjustment. “I thought this was something I could do,”…

  • Neighborhood mounts opposition to cell tower

    S.B. council says residents’ opinions will be kept in mind BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Residents’ disapproval of a proposed cell phone tower was heard loud and clear at the Township Council meeting on Tuesday. Residents of New Turkey Island Road filled the council chambers, all wearing stickers…

  • Young cadets learn how to serve and protect

    Junior Police Academy graduates 17 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer PHOTOSBY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Cadets Cristina Losito and Maggie Lydon lead the 17 Junior Police Academy graduates during the third annual ceremony in North Brunswick on Friday. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Seventeen junior cadets took it to the STREET after completing the…

  • Tree service worker falls from truck

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A man working from the bucket of a tree-servicing vehicle was thrown from the air when another truck collided with his truck at the intersection of Cornell Street and Livingston Avenue on Aug. 16. According to police reports, the victim, 27, of Bayville,…

  • Man dies in collision with truck

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A 22-year-old Califon man died in a vehicle crash on Route 1 on Aug. 16. Thomas Salimbene III was driving his 2006 Toyota in the area of College Farm Road on the southbound side around 7:55 a.m. when he crashed into a tractor-trailer,…

  • NUI School can occupy Route 1 office building

    S. Bruns. Zoning Board allows temporary use for teaching grades 1-3 BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The township Zoning Board has voted to allow the Noor-Ul-Iman School to turn a donated office building into a temporary schoolhouse. The 6-1 vote, cast Aug. 18, lets the Islamic school use…

  • State Web site will offer Rx cost comparisons

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer New Jersey residents will be able to shop for medicine smarter using a new state Web site. Appearing in East Brunswick on Monday, Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill into law that created the Web site, to be run by the Department of Consumer Affairs, that…

  • S. Bruns. may allow stores at warehouses

    Among ideas being considered to generate revenue in area BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer The South Brunswick Township Council is considering whether to allow warehouses in the eastern portion of town to open outlet stores. In an effort to increase tax revenue in the area as well as to take advantage…