Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Marine’s stay a mix of heavy fighting, tedium

    Former No. Brunswick resident shares stories of deployment in Iraq BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Capt. Ieva (far right with the radio) and members of his battalion await news while on a rooftop in the vicinity of the Ramana Bridge. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Nothing hits closer to home than having one…

  • Driver pleads guilty in teen suicide crash case

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Joshua Aanestad, accused of murdering his teenage friend as part of a suicide pact, pleaded guilty to murder in Family Court in New Brunswick on June 29. Aanestad, 17, was sentenced to 15 years and was remanded to the Juvenile Justice Commission, according…

  • Ailing twp. employee thanks God, No. Bruns.

    Community BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Imagine going into the hospital with a slight pain you think could be pneumonia, instead being diagnosed with leukemia and then being told that the cause is nothing more than bad luck. Carolann LaBarbera, 51, a clerk and typist for the Department…

  • Research on caffeine and cancer earns teen grant

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A township teen is helping to find a cure for cancer, all before graduating high school. Sherry Zhou, 17, who just finished her junior year at South Brunswick High School, was recently awarded grant funding by the New Jersey Academy of Science (NJAS)…

  • Narcotics force arrests two

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A two-month-long narcotics investigation led to the arrests of two South Brunswick men. Kazi Islam, 20, and Sharify Holligan, 21, both of Dayton, were arrested last week by members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force, along with detectives from the Plainsboro and South Brunswick police departments. Police seized nearly…

  • No. Bruns. to buy contaminated lot

    Owner sought to build on grounds near high school BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer The North Brunswick Township Council voted to purchase the 3.4 acres of contaminated land on Route 130 by Plains Gap Road and North Brunswick Township High School on Tuesday. The ordinance was passed unanimously by the council,…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Lead singer Mary Dashielle of 3 Across performs at Babbage Park on Wednesday as part of North Brunswick’s Summer Concert Series.

  • Planners consider massive warehouse

    1.4 million-sq.-foot structure proposed in So. Brunswick BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer That’s one big warehouse.An application to build a 1,401,500-square-foot warehouse was presented at Wednesday’s South Brunswick Planning Board meeting. CNJ Company IV LLC proposed to construct the mega-warehouse on the Corner of Davidsons Mill Road and Middlesex Center Boulevard…

  • Tour a chance to soak up some local color

    South Brunswick artists to show their works at Sunday afternoon event BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer Above, a “Pool Party,” a mixed-media painting by Kendall Park artist Stephanie Barbetti. At left, an oil painting, “Just Hanging,” by Monmouth Junction artist Marcel Franquelin. Franquelin is one of the featured artists in the…