Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Milltown toddler, 2, is beating the odds
Family, transplant organization reach out for help from public BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Dominic Tripaldi of Milltown received two organ transplants earlier this year at the age of 17 months. A campaign is in the works to help the family with surgical and related expenses. MILLTOWN — When Dominic Tripaldi…
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Sleeping man rescued from burning Rt. 1 home
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police rescued a sleeping man from his burning township home. Officers John Penney and John Niper arrived at the scene on Route 1 north Thursday evening after residents reported a fire in their home. Flames and smoke were visible from a second-floor window…
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Photo
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff A portrait of Richard VonDeesten, a South Brunswick teen who perished in a car accident, lies on the grass a few feet from the site of the fatal crash.
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Twp. lights menorah
NORTH BRUNSWICK — Residents honored Jewish tradition at town hall on Dec. 8. In celebration of the second evening of Hanukkah, the township held a menorah lighting on the front lawn of the Municipal Complex at 710 Hermann Road. Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, director of Chabad of North and South Brunswick, led the ceremony with the…
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Councilmen thanked for service, bid farewell
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The community and Township Council bid farewell to two of its longtime public servants Tuesday. Republican Councilman Ted Van Hessen and Democrat Edmund Luciano were honored at the council’s final meeting of the year. Van Hessen and Luciano were presented with plaques from…
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Fire damages warehouse
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A fire damaged the warehouse of Bunzl Distributions on Distribution Way early Monday morning. The warehouse was occupied by workers at the time of the fire, according to South Brunswick Detective James Ryan. According to Ryan, workers learned of the fire as a tractor-trailer pulled away from the building after seeing smoke.…
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Arson suspect remains under medical evaluation
BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A local man remained under medical evaluation at a local hospital this week after being charged with arson recently. Police charged Carl Kamas, 39, with aggravated arson Dec. 2 for deliberately setting fire to his home at 12 Nassau Road. An arraignment date…
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Cleanup continues near Dolph plant
8,300 gallons of chemicals spill into ground, brook BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff A hazardous material expert checks the contamination level at the Lawrence Brook in South Brunswick following a chemical leak from the John C. Dolph Co. A suspicious odor led South Brunswick police to a major…
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Public urged to check out validity of charities
TRENTON — Attorney General Peter C. Harvey has cautioned New Jersey residents to be wary of con artists who fraudulently pose as representatives of charitable organizations and seek donations for their own use. “The holiday season is a time when many residents make charitable donations to aid the needy and less fortunate among us. But…
