NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police and emergency medical personnel responded to reports of a shooting at the Quentin Gardens Apartments at approximately 9pm on the evening of October 5.
A male victim was found lying in the street, according to police radio transmissions.
But officers on the scene weren't immediately sure if the victim was shot in the incident.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On the heels of an ethics complaint filed by the author of this article, the city's longtime Planning Board attorney has agreed to sit out an upcoming hearing on a controversial development application.
Filed on August 20, the complaint alleges that Benjamin Bucca has improperly used his position as the Planning Board's attorney to favor his other employer, Rutgers University, where he serves as the womens' tennis coach.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City police confirmed today that a 20-year-old man was struck by a car on Saturday at approximately 2:16 am the corner of Easton Avenue and Mine Street.
Homedel resident Timothy McDonnell was struck by a vehicle driven by 30-year-old Michael Schenck of Somerset. Schenck was driving a 2007 four-door Audi towards the train station when the vehicle struck McDonnell, according to police.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–More than 200 years ago, a copper mine operated deep beneath the surface of the Hub City's Sixth Ward, according to state geologists, roughly traversing the same area where present-day Mine Street and parts of Rutgers University occupy.
"We believe mine workings have been intersected in and around Mine Street during construction of the sewer or water mains many years ago," said Fred Sickels of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–A strong turnout from Franklin's Democratic Committee sent their Chairman to the State Assembly, in a vote between two relatively unknown politicians today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Joseph Danielsen, a former Fire Commissioner and Planning Board member in Franklin Township, won a vote of the committee members who hail from his hometown, as well as those from New Brunswick, Milltown, Piscataway, and North Brunswick.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The familiar noises of symphony bands and choirs that fill the air of the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers were accompanied by a strange new sound on September 23.
Musician and composer Chipocrite, a.k.a. Paul Weinstein visited Rutgers to give a presentation on DIY electronic music to students taking the Byrnes seminar “Hacking Sound,” a class in which students learn to build and hack their own electronic instruments.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A $38,000 bottle of Balvenie 50 single-malt scotch, one of only 131 in existence, will soon be on its way to the Hub City from Balvenie Distillery in Dufftown, Scotland.
The owners of Stage Left, a downtown restaurant on Livingston Avenue, are planning to open it as part of a swanky celebration on January 10.
The scotch comes from one of two European oak casks filled in 1963, and is one of just 15 bottles that are coming to America.
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