Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Sleepless in outer space

    Author’s double-book is a sci-fi graphic novel and guide for making one BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – In year 3157, the space age has entered a dark era, where technological marvels mingle with superstition, oppression and fear. For many, sleep has become a distant memory as the proletariats…

  • Resident gears up for 170-mile charity ride

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – If all goes well, Sunday will be a huge “Sy” of relief for a township resident. Sy Levine, who will be riding in the 170-mile Multiple Sclerosis Coast the Coast Bike tour on Saturday and Sunday, will be testing out the knee he…

  • Rabbi joins Bush, top officials on prayer day

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, of the Chabad of North and South Brunswick, shakes hands with President George W. Bush during the National Day of Prayer at the White House on May 4. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, the director of the Chabad of North and South…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Raider Robotix team members (l to r) Neil Parikh, Corey Balint and Vishal Ramani, review their robot’s functions. The team compiled a 45-5 season record and placed second at the world robotics championship at the Georgia Dome at the end of April. See page 3 for story.

  • N.B. school budget clipped by $2.35M

    Property owners will see 25-cent hike to tax rate BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer A $2.35 million reduction to the school budget was approved by the North Brunswick Township Council Monday night. The cuts, which stemmed mostly from the administrative area, are expected to reduce the original general fund tax levy…

  • VanDyke farm put on endangered list

    Preservation N.J. sees site as in immediate threat of development BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Efforts to preserve the 300-year-old VanDyke farm have gained the attentions of Preservation New Jersey, which has placed the South Brunswick property on its list of the top 10 most endangered historic sites this year. The…

  • Judd students take on Science Day challenges

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Siemens electronics and engineering company offered an egg-citing and educational program for the fifth-graders of Judd Elementary School on Tuesday. The New York City-based company, with two offices in New Jersey, gave students the chance to develop a casing made of popsicle sticks,…

  • S.B. latest town to join area flood control group

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – South Brunswick has been invited to join the South-Central Middlesex County Flood Control Commission, an advisory body composed of representatives from several municipalities in the area. The ordinance required by the township to make its membership official passed its first reading during the…

  • Campaign Web address printing sparks debate

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Two Republicans have filed a complaint alleging that a Middlesex County freeholder misused taxpayer dollars to advertise for the county Democratic Party. The accusations by Republican freeholder candidates Andrew Tidd and Geoffrey Champion stem from a county Public Works and Transportation newsletter in which Freeholder H.…