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P: Special needs Finding the state's Watch those education top archer shoulders Part 2 examines recent legislative Bowmen will compete in the Bigfoot SB cracks down on aggressive drivers changes & funding allocations Open this weekend Pages 10-14 Page 27 Page 3 SentineServing South Brunswick l JULY 9,1998 40 cents VOLUME 5, NUMBER 37 Society likes Rte. 1 rezoning Change prohibits The vote was 3-0. Committee members Debra Johnson and retail use, affecting David Schaefer were absent. KFC application Committeeman Edward Van Hessen said that the rezoning was BY CHARLES W. KIM designed to prevent the creation Staff Writer of a "crazy quilt" of retail lots and strip malls up and down the he South Brunswick seven-mile corridor. Township Committee Deputy Mayor Frank T effectively killed plans Gambatese agreed, saying that he for a KFC on Route 1 Tuesday did not want to see Route 1 turn night when it adopted an ordi- into something like Route 18 in nance to rezone the property to East Brunswick. office park. The new zone will permit The property along the Route smaller professional offices for 1 corridor was rezoned to the doctors, lawyers, or real estate office park designation in keep- brokers, but prohibits retail use ing with the township's master for businesses such as the pro- plan for the area around Route 1. posed KFC. The area is along the west side The Planning Board had Matthew Rossi, 9, of Dayton is just one of the 9,000 people expected to attend the YMCA of Route 1 roughly between planned to hear the KFC applica- Carnival at the Crossroads-Middle School on Kingston Lane. The carnival opened Tuesday and Stouts Lane and Whispering tion Wednesday after postponing continues until Saturday. Hours are 6-11 p.m. today and Friday and 4-11 p.m. Saturday. Wood Boulevard. Photo by David Fane Continued on page 4 Remarks in Internet chat room spark fight The suspects, all from the Staten Island, N.Y., and Jerome 7 face charges New York area, were charged Mangusan, 19, of Woodhaven, in attack on with aggravated assault and N.Y., happened to run into S. Brunswick man weapon possession in connection Capule by chance on June 6, with an alleged baseball bat police said. BY CHARLES W. KIM attack on a Kendall Park resident The meeting took place at the Staff Writer at his Brook Drive home. The apartment of a Rutgers charges were filed June 24. University student in. New t was South Brunswick's first According to South Brunswick, who happened to be experience with violence in Brunswick Detective James a mutual friend of both parties. I cyberspace. Kinard, Jason Capule, 22, of The argument that began in Police announced Monday Kendall Park, the victim of the "cyberspace" continued in the that they had filed charges assault, had been "trading friend's very real kitchen, against six adults and one juve- insults" with a group of people in according to police. Following a nile in connection with a June 10 a "Filipino" chat room over the short physical confrontation, the fight that originated in an Internet. female student asked the group Fireworks lit up the skies in some area towns over the weekend. America Online chat room on Two of the people in the chat South Brunswick's fireworks presentation was postponed to this Saturday because of rain. Augusta F. Menezes/Greater Media the Internet. room, Ariel Gutierrez, 19, of Continued on page 4 1 2 SENTfNEL, JULY'9,"1S§8 S"' It's Easy to Enjoy Tk& Summer Greater Media Newspapers to 1998 Beat the Heat Advertisers: H. Scoil Aalsberg, Esq. 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A car approaching the intersection from several hundred feet away swings out of the right lane and onto the shoulder. South Brunswick Patrolman Mike Lapoint walks from his position on the roadside to the shoulder and directs the car to a small park- Check out The Entertainer. ing area, then asks to see the driver's docu- Page 20 mentation. "Do you know why you were pulled over?" Lapoint asks. This scene was to be repeated at this location about 30 times over the next 90 minutes. Police issued 27 tickets for passing on the shoulder, each carrying a $77 fine and five penalty points on the drivers' licenses. •Classifieds ...'.. .Page 31 The stationary police detail the morning 8 Editorials Page 22 of July 2 was pail of a statewide crackdown on aggressive driving. • Entertainment .. .Page 20 And it was the job of Lapoint and patrol- • Letters Page 22 men Mike Kushwara and Bob Weiler to flag down motorists who tried to use the • Marketplace . .Page 30 shoulder as an express lane to get around • Milestones Page 24 the morning congestion. "It's the hourglass effect here," • Obituaries Page 24 Kushwara said, explaining that Route 1 has • Police Beat Page 25 three lanes passing through North Brunswick, narrows to two lanes through • Sports Page 27 the township, then goes back to three in Plainsboro. "Most of these folks are commuters and may be late for work or an appointment." Weiler said. "Some get rnad (when Phone numbers: stopped). One driver threw his keys on the Editorial 254-7000 Ext. 8226 dashboard, like we were the ones who made FAX 254-0486 him do it. They're frustrated; you can see the anger." Display Advertising 972-6740 A line of utility poles approximately 100 FAX 972-6746 feet apart served as the measuring stick for the detail. Most of the cars the officers WRITING IT UP — Patrolman Mike Kushwara issues a summons for improper stopped started riding the shoulder two or passing during an aggressive driving detail on Route 1 July 2. Classified 1-800-660-4ADS three poles — 200-300 feet before the Charles Kim/Greater Media Classified FAX 432-0016 beginning of the turning lane.