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Magazine paints a great picture of NBTHS
Painted Words literary magazine receives first-place award for second year BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — For two years in a row, the North Brunswick Township High School’s (NBTHS) literary magazine, Painted Words, received top honors from the American Scholastic Press Association. The 2011-12 magazine was put together by roughly 20 students, and…
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N.B. veterans pay tribute to lives lost at Pearl Harbor
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Korean War veteran Richard Pender lays a yellow flower in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor during a ceremony at Veterans Park in North Brunswick on Dec. 7, as Vietnam veteran and North Brunswick Councilman Bob Davis looks on. KATHY CHANG NORTH BRUNSWICK — Erickson Arias, a freshman at…
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Weichert toy drive to benefit Women Aware
Claudia Stepien, branch manager of Weichert Realtors, South Brunswick office, has announced the start of the annual holiday toy drive to benefit the children associated with Women Aware, a local nonprofit domestic violence shelter whose mission it is to free women and children from violence and the fear of violence. As part of the 34th…
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Chabad of So. Bruns. kick-off event Dec. 13
The Chabad of South Brunswick’s Kick Off C-Teen event will take start Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Chabad Jewish Center of South Brunswick. Attendees will take a limo drive into New York City for a Chanukah party with other teens from the tri-state area. The event includes dinner, entertainment, and the menorah lighting…
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Shells will be sold at Dec. 15 craft fair
Brunswick Acres Elementary School in South Brunswick will have a table set up at the craft fair/vendor show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 15 at East Brunswick High School, 380 Cranbury Road. A variety of shells made by the students will be available for sale, with 100 percent of the proceeds going…
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S.B. native works toward educating girls around the world
BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Although she may not have earned first place at the American Giving Awards Dec. 8, Tammy Tibbetts is still working to put girls from developing nations first. The South Brunswick native is the founder and president of She’s The First, a three-year-old charity that funds education through…
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Nothing says the holidays like bars on the cell door
CODA GREG BEAN I don’t know what Peter F. Burnham — the larcenous ex-president of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft — will be doing this holiday season, or the one after, but it’s a sure bet he won’t be throwing a lavish party for friends and colleagues at the Navesink Country Club with looted college…
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Resident disappointed with leaf collection in South Brunswick
With each passing year, it becomes more obvious that South Brunswick Township cannot carry out its leaf collection program. As of now, residents are required to rake leaves to the curb and await a township truck to vacuum them up in rounds scheduled for October, November and December. On my street, leaves have been raked…
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N.B.’s response to Sandy was commendable
I decided to take the time to write, as I have a unique insider’s view of North Brunswick. As a town, we were very lucky overall after Hurricane Sandy, as we now know many towns throughout New Jersey and New York were decimated. For several days, our fine police officers were asked not to leave…
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