Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Hooters eyes Route 18 site in East Brunswick

    Restaurant with hot wings and sex appeal applies for liquor license BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Offering spicy chicken wings and an element of female sex appeal, Hooters restaurants have gathered plenty of attention across America. Though the so-called Hooters girls have not served any customers in Middlesex…

  • Irish folk revivalist returns for local show

    BY ANDREA OLIVIO Staff Writer BY ANDREA OLIVIOStaff Writer Mick Moloney The Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will present a performance by “Irish renaissance man” Mick Moloney March 2 in East Brunswick. For 11 years running, Moloney has been performing to a full house at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High School, Rues…

  • So. Bruns. police seeking flasher

    South Brunswick — Township police are searching for a man who exposed himself to a resident of Whispering Woods Complex. According to police, a female resident of Bayberry Court reported she heard tapping at her sliding door on Feb. 21. When she went to the door, the woman witnessed a man with his pants down,…

  • School district projects tax hike

    Preliminary drafts of budget project raise above 20 cents BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer South Brunswick school officials say the district’s budget will likely rise due to a decrease in the township’s tax ratable base. The South Brunswick Board of Education met Tuesday to begin finalizing the 2005-06 school budget. Officials…

  • Laird legacy lives on at Colts Neck factory

    Company known for producing AppleJack marks 225th anniversary BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Rose Marie Laird (l) and her daughter, Lisa Laird Dunn, examine family documents that show the origin of their Colts Neck liquor company. COLTS NECK — In 1698 William Laird settled in Monmouth County, where…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Anna Babriecki, a pupil at Princeton Cooperative Nursery School, South Brunswick, sings for residents of Park Place Center, Monmouth Junction.

  • Man accused of embezzling

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police arrested and charged Leslie Sperling, 53, of Jamesburg with embezzlement Feb. 8. Sperling, a former senior claims adjuster at Risk Enterprise Management, is suspected of embezzling over $100,000 from the company. According to the South Brunswick Police Department, Sperling deposited checks made out to various claimants into his personal bank account.…

  • Holt blasts ‘radical’ Social Security plan

    Town meeting focuses on changes proposed by President Bush BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The uncertain future of Social Security was the topic of a town hall meeting hosted by Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) at the North Brunswick Municipal Building Saturday. Members of the community, both retirees and…

  • Beatlemania tour is a ‘magical mystery’

    Impersonators will chronicle Fab Four career at Marasco Center BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE — Tony Isoldi very clearly remembers the excitement when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. More than four decades later, he would like to bring that same excitement to Monroe. “I remember the…