Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Sky is the limit with No. Brunswick painter

    Approaches landscapes from top down; exhibit in Princeton Jan. 4 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer North Brunswick artist Bill Kastan will be displaying his artwork at the gallery at the Chapin School in Princeton from Jan. 4 to Feb. 2. At right, “Mountain Afternoon” is one of the numerous New Jersey-inspired…

  • Essay on freedom earns student prize, acclaim

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The nature of human freedom has been a subject of debate among theologians and philosophers for hundreds of years. According to English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, freedom in men is a state of nature in which life is poor, nasty, solitary, brutish and short,…

  • Relief supply pipeline starts at area warehouse

    Feed the Children volunteers pack goods for hurricane victims BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Above, Norman Carey (l) stacks boxes full of supplies for Alfred Hankerson (r) at the Feed the Children warehouse in North Brunswick. At right, boxes full of supplies are packed by members of the Community Presbyterian Church…

  • Farms in E.B., Monroe in preservation program

    Horses, cows, goats and pigs are raised on Fresh Ponds Rd. farm BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Top, a goat plays in the field in front of the Warren farm in East Brunswick. The farm has just been added to the state Farmland Preservation Program. Above, Mike Warren feeds the horses.…

  • Police use extra patrols to catch drunken drivers

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer That’s the message of police in several local municipalities who are gearing up for the holiday season with a special focus on drunken drivers. Twelve towns in Middlesex County are participating in the “You Drink and Drive, You Lose” program for 2005. The program is sponsored…

  • N.B. library group honors its best Friends

    Call for recent twp. tax settlement to finance new facility BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer North Brunswick NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Friends of the North Brunswick Library held their first ever recognition ceremony last Wednesday to honor all of the volunteers involved with the library’s two annual book sales. “I think…

  • In harmony

    SCOTT PILLING staff Members of the North Brunswick Township High School Choir performed at a holiday concert at the high school on Tuesday.

  • No. Bruns. plans to purchase 4-acre tract

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Township Council approved an ordinance on Monday to purchase roughly 4 acres of open space in the Hidden Lake section of town. The Schmidt family of North Brunswick, which owns several acres of passive farmland in the township, has authorized the sale…

  • Info sought on store theft

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Police released this surveillance photo of a suspect in a theft from Computer Renaissance on Nov. 6. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Police have released a photograph to help aid in the search for a suspect in a theft from Computer Renaissance in Commerce Plaza, Route 1, on…