Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • 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…

  • Ordinance limits housing options for sex offenders

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Sex offenders are no longer welcome in most parts of South Brunswick. At the Oct. 11 Township Council meeting, an ordinance called the Sex Offender Residency Prohibition was passed by the council unanimously. The ordinance, spearheaded by Deputy Mayor Carol Barrett, prohibits convicted…

  • Former member fills vacancy on school board

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — John Wolf will fill the vacant Board of Education seat left behind by Michael Mahan for the next six months. On Monday, the board interviewed the final three candidates and then, in a closed session, decided that Wolf was the most qualified person…

  • Man shot in robbery at No. Bruns. gas station

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Police are investigating an armed robbery at the BP gas station on Route 130 on Oct. 8. According to police reports, a male employee of the station, 55, of East Windsor, was shot inside of the convenience store by a black male wearing…

  • Zoning Board denies strip mall application

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Zoning Board of Adjustment voted to deny Pami Realty LLC’s application to build a 9,900-square-foot retail center on Route 130 and Adams Lane on Tuesday. “We have to take into consideration that we can’t stop changes, but we have to look at…

  • Arts night supports township food pantry

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Above, Eliot Katz, author of “Unlocking the Exits,” reads his poetry at the Wetherill House in Dayton on Sunday. At left, Maggi Hill and Jerry Steele perform. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A night of music and poetry was held at the historic Wetherill House in Dayton on…