Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Princeton U. donates 127 acres to S. Bruns.

    Area will be managed as a park with trails, agricultural museum BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer (Graphic courtesy of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Princeton University) SOUTH BRUNSWICK — In a dedication ceremony Jan. 19, Princeton University donated 127 acres of land to South Brunswick and Plainsboro townships…

  • Photorealism movement explored in new exhibit

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Photorealist paintings on display at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University offer a new perspective on reality. The “American Photorealism” exhibition features 67 paintings by 27 artists, including many influential in the photorealism movement, such as Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Don Eddy,…

  • Soil cleanup delays high school expansion finish

    Target date for project completion is now June 2006 BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Soil contamination found at the township’s high school will set the school’s renovations back about one year. The $29.9 million North Brunswick Township High School expansion, approved by a referendum vote in January 2002,…

  • Alchemist Co. show rescheduled

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — The show must go on. The curtain didn’t go up on the Alchemist Theatre Company’s winter production on Jan. 22 due to the snowstorm, but it will this week. North Brunswick Township High School’s theater group will present “Theatre Revue 2005” at 8 p.m. on Jan. 29. Joel Chesler, the company’s advisor,…

  • School expansion referendum passes

    Roughly 62 percent of N.B. voters say yes to $32.4M plan BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer North Brunswick voters approved $32.4 million in township school renovations Tuesday. During a special referendum vote, 1,402 residents cast ballots for a construction plan to expand five district schools, while 845 voted against it. Out…

  • Auditions

    Community Christian Choir, an interfaith group of singers from New Jersey as well as eastern Pennsylvania, will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 at the Allentown Presbyterian Church, Route 539, Allentown, which is where the group rehearses. The choir will be rehearsing a variety of contemporary Christian music for a…

  • Groups may lobby for road projects

    Firms would pursue funds for Route 1 widening in S.B. BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer The South Brunswick Township Council is considering hiring professional lobbyists to work on the state and federal levels to raise funds for the widening of Route 1. “We need to be aggressive,” Township Manager Matthew Watkins…

  • ‘Egg-cellent’ world record set by teenager

    Local youth overcomes physical and emotional tragedies BY TARA PETERSEN Staff Writer BY TARA PETERSENStaff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Above, Anthony Napoliello concentrates on balancing an egg during his attempt to break a world record; below, Napoliello uses up more of the black tiles on the atrium floor, and ultimately balances 420 eggs. While some…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Scott Matuszewski, 9, of Kendall Park, attempts to go over a snow jump at Woodlot Park in South Brunswick.