Tag: South Brunswick
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Kendall Park backyard decorated with kinetic sculptures
PHOTO COURTESY OF SONIA YACO Sonia Yaco created an outdoor kinetic sculpture exhibit at her home in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick. While she usually makes indoor kinetic sculptures, as the pandemic hit she wanted to find a way to share her art with neighbors in a safe venue. Since March, she…
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Dozen firefighters use Jaws of Life to extricate driver after tractor trailer crash; suffers fatal injuries
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – South Brunswick police received a 911 call of a tractor trailer crash on Corn Road around 9:17 p.m. Aug. 31. When officers arrived on the lightly traveled industrial road they found a tractor trailer cab entangled with a flatbed tractor, according to information provided by the South Brunswick Police Department. The Monmouth…
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South Brunswick teen teaches residents virtually how to make cloth masks for essential workers
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Hymavathi Gollakota is encouraging residents to attend her virtual mask-making workshops or sewing basics workshops in an effort to help the community. Hyma, a junior at South Brunswick High School, has not suffered any COVID-related tragedies in her close family, but decided she and her mother would make masks for essential personnel,…
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Charges filed against man who allegedly ordered thousands of dollars worth of food without paying
Following an extensive investigation by the South Brunswick Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, charges were filed relating to numerous cases of cyber harassment committed from Jan. 15 to April 9. Sudeep Khetani, 34, of Kendall Park, allegedly made several hundred calls to numerous local restaurants using false phone numbers; ordered thousands of…
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Opinion: Crisis with post office has dire economic impacts
The current crisis with the U.S. Postal Service is a clear attempt by the Trump Administration to steal the upcoming election. However, there are other dire economic effects that are impacting Americans on a daily basis. It took two weeks for a much-needed client check to arrive in my mailbox from New Hampshire. How many…
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Maureen Thompson-Siegel: Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger
The 2020-21 youth hockey season looks a little different for Princeton Youth Hockey Association (PYHA), not only because they’re entering it in the age of COVID-19 where social distancing and face coverings are the norm, but also because they’re entering it without Dayton resident Maureen Thompson-Siegel playing her many behind-the-scenes roles for the first time…
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Children’s book based on twin brothers’ adventures is published posthumously by author’s sister
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A loving woman who is missing her younger sister decided to publish the sister’s children’s book posthumously to continue her legacy. Patricia David, of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, published a new children’s book, “The Adventures of Kiko and Pez” on Aug. 4 by Mascot Books, after her sister Jane…
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Troop’s first Eagle Scout speaks about leadership skills
Using his leadership and organizational skills, East Brunswick resident DJ Pullaro has become Boy Scout Troop 501’s first Eagle Scout. After five years in Cub Scout Pack 223, the 15-year-old said he started in a different troop at age 11 but became a founding member of Troop 501, which serves East Brunswick and South Brunswick,…
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Suspicious man in South Brunswick neighborhood charged with driving while impaired, possession of drug paraphernalia
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A resident of South Brunswick reported a suspicious occupied silver Lexus on Shelly Road near Benson Road around 1:40 this morning, Aug. 12. Officer Matthew Hagood arrived to find a 36-year-old male from Denver, Pennsylvania, in the driver’s seat of the running Lexus. The person appeared to be under influence of something and…
