Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Lawyer’s absence delays VanDyke farm hearing

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A decision on the fate of the 300-year-old VanDyke farm was delayed for the fourth time during the South Brunswick Planning Board meeting on June 21. The application to build 76 luxury houses on the Davidsons Mill Road site was moved to another…

  • Community shaken over shooting death

    Boy, 12, is killed by gunshot while playing at friend’s BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – Summer got off to a tragic start in the township Monday when a 12-year-old boy died as the result of a gunshot wound to the head. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that…

  • LEAL offers alternative to staying home alone

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Over 300 students had a LEAL good time at an end-of-the-year picnic at Babbage Park on Friday. Members of the Extended Leisure and Learning Alternative program (LEAL) celebrated the Wild, Wild West with games, rides, music, a barbecue and snacks. “This celebrates the…

  • County grant to improve pedestrian access at park

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The township is pedaling towards improving the 105-acre North Brunswick Community Park on Route 130. The township has received an $80,000 grant from the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders under the county’s Open Space & Recreation Pedestrian/ Bicycle Grant Program, according to…

  • Life imitates art with radio personality’s novel

    Wendy Williams draws crowd for book signing BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO Radio personality Wendy Williams signed copies of her new novel “Drama Is Her Middle Name” at Barnes & Noble on Route 1 in North Brunswick on Friday. NORTH BRUNSWICK – She puts the “s” in shock and…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Debra Schley and her son Holden, both of Milltown, enjoy the view from the Ferris wheel at the North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival on Route 1 on Thursday. Story, page 3.

  • As temps rise, so do complaints

    Strained budget causes N.B. schools to lower the A.C. BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Linwood Middle School students are feeling the heat from recent school budget defeats, as the air conditioning in the North Brunswick school has been set at a higher temperature to account for decreased available funds. Thirty-seven parents…

  • Board denies Rt. 27 senior development

    Members say plan should’ve been taken to S.B. council first BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer The South Brunswick Zoning Board rejected an application to build a 146-unit senior housing development by a 6-1 vote on June 15. Those voting against the application, which called for the construction on an 18-acre tract…

  • N.B. families enjoy reel nice Father’s Day

    Over 300 take part in annual fishing derby BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO A young girl is one of 300 participants at the 30th annual Father’s Day Fishing Derby at the Boyd Ponds in North Brunswick on Sunday. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Families across the township went fishing for some…