Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • North Brunswick’s bravest

    SCOTT PILLING staff Barbara Puleio watches her son, Justin, 2, examine a firetruck as part of a fire safety demonstration for the Sabella Park Pre-schoolers at the North Brunswick Fire Company No. 3 firehouse on Cozzens Lane on Friday.

  • GOP: It’s time for ‘different direction’

    Rhodes, O BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer “I want our schools to be the best.” — Claude Rhodes Jr. Tom O’Neill and Claude Rhodes Jr. want to be the new kids on the block. Trying to break North Brunswick’s Democratic stronghold on the Township Council, the Republican candidates are campaigning to…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Elijah Anseaume, 9, of Plainsboro holds items associated with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a luluv and etrog, at the Chabad Jewish Center of South Brunswick on Sunday.

  • ‘Peculiar institution’ has history in S.B.

    Symposium examines slavery on VanDyke farm, other local sites BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer America is a fairly young country at only 229 years of age. Yet, even in the absence of ancient temples and castles overgrown with ivy, it still has history. On Thursday, the Eastern Villages Association (EVA) in…

  • R.U. scared? Duo chronicles campus lore

    Graduate students began BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Trick-or-treat: “Rutgers Rarities” founders Jessica Teal and Ray Brennan claim that the Willow Grove Cemetery in New Brunswick, among other campus locations, is haunted. There are vandalized and broken headstones, unmarked graves and an eerie tree struck by lightning in the middle of…

  • No. Bruns. to be paid $4.3M from tax appeal

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack announced that the township will receive an unanticipated $4.3 million resulting from a successful appeal regarding the amount of taxes to be paid on the Bristol-Myers Squibb property on Route 1. “This is truly great news for the residents…

  • No. Brunswick seeks turkey donations, volunteers

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer North Brunswick NORTH BRUNSWICK — Calling all turkeys! The Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services is holding a turkey drive to benefit the township for Thanksgiving. “It is a turkey challenge on behalf of the North Brunswick Food Bank. … We want to make this…

  • Law enforcement unions endorse incumbents

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two major law enforcement unions have endorsed Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and Assemblyman Bill Baroni in their re-election bids, while a third, which represents probation officers, has also backed Greenstein. Absent from the list of law enforcement endorsements, however, is Republican candidate Michael Paquette,…

  • South Brunswick police compile Most Wanted list

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Ryan Cleverly is the most wanted man in the township. Police have initiated a Most Wanted program, which encourages residents to keep a lookout for known fugitives. No. 1 on South Brunswick’s list is Cleverly for his alleged involvement in a home invasion…