Go-Go Dancing Banned at N.B. Heartbreakers in His Testimony Monday, Peck N.B
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Guide to Good Eating Breaking ground Every day is a celebration at area The South Brunswick family YMCA will German restaurants break ground for a new facility Saturday. Page 22 Page 4 Serving North and South Brunswick ... Go-go dancing banned at N.B. Heartbreakers In his testimony Monday, Peck N.B. renews liquor said if the council decided to ban license, but says no private dancing, his client would accept that condition. to live entertainment The establishment has been "working hard" to increase man- BY CRAIG YETSKO agement and, in 1998, implement- Staff Writer ed a new taping procedure inside eartbreakers representa- the bar, he said. At last week's tives left the North hearing, Peck said three to four H Brunswick municipal dancers are discharged a month building heartbroken Monday for disregarding the rules of the night. establishment. Concluding a hearing that Peck acknowledged that for started last week, the North health and personal reasons, Brunswick Township Council Landi has not been present that voted unanimously to renew the often in the past, but in the future Route 130 go-go bar's liquor he will be at Heartbreakers a min- license, but with the condition that imum of five nights a week. "His there be no live entertainment; presence there [will] hopefully i.e., go-go dancing. improve the level of compliance," The added condition became Peck said. effective immediately and all prior Mayor David Spaulding said conditions remain in "full force that management has made only a and effect," Township Attorney minimal effort to make sure David Himeiman said. repeated violations do not repeat. Heartbreakers won't go down "It's clearly not working," he said. .'••$:;•••>• <- :-•-,:- ..'•••-•- • - without a fight, however. The mayor also stated that he MARIE ORTIZ "We will not accept that as a had been unaware of the level of Youngsters compete in a tug of war during the South Brunswick Police Department's National condition," said Wayne Peck, attor- problems at Heartbreakers. Night Out Festival 2000 inWoodlot Park Tuesday. ney for the 2470 Corp., Freehold, "I got the impression the estab- which owns Heartbreakers. As they lishment was so clean that you left the courtroom, Peck and com- could hold a church service pany President Michael Landi [there]," he said. declined to comment further. S.B. nixes fast-food eateries Himeiman said Tuesday that At Monday's hearing, Patton the township's Alcoholic Beverage said that in 1995, 1996 and 1999, Control officer Patrolman Craig Heartbreakers was cited for lewd Patton or another patrolman would shows with audience participa- in 2 of 3 commercial zones monitor the establishment to assure tion. In 1996, the go-go bar was compliance. If Heartbreakers does cited for the sale of alcoholic bev- They would still be commercial/professional Democratic Councilman Frank not comply with the no live-enter- erages to a person under the legal office/local service districts. C-2 Gambatese said die ordinance was tainment condition, the township age, and in 1997 for selling alco- a permitted use in zones are general retail commer- in response to the Planning will file a complaint with the hol in a contaminated bottle. The commercial districts cial center districts, and C-3 Board's recommendation. Division of Alcoholic Beverage bottle contained a fruit fly. zones are highway commercial "They suggested to us theControl of the state Department of In addition, during an investi- BY CRAIG YETSKO districts. elimination of fast-food restau- Law and Public Safety, which gation of an April assault at the rants along Route 1," he said. Staff Writer Traditional restaurant use could shut down the establishment club, Heartbreakers management would still be permitted in all He also noted that traffic at the or suspend the license. ast-food restaurants have three zones. Fast-food restau- Route 1 intersection of Sand Hill Continued on page 25 been banned in two com- rants are defined as those which Road and Major Road "is a prob- mercial districts along sell food over the counter in dis- lem." Index F Classified 32 Quote of the week: Route 1 in South Brunswick. posable containers and through a Van Hessen said that he was Editorials 6 The Township Council voted drive-through service window "struggling" with how he would "I got the impression the 4-1, with Republican Councilman and do not have waiter/waitress vote on the ordinance. Entertainment 24 Letters 6 establishment was so clean that Ted Van Hessen dissenting, to service "I don't know what the right you could hold a church service approve an ordinance which Mayor Debra Johnson said she answer is here," he said. Marketplace 31 Obituaries 27 [there]." would restrict fast-food restau- is not against these types of restau- He explained that if the Burger David Spaulding rants in the township's C-2 shop- rants but stated the township wants King and McDonald's were taken Police Beat 27 Mayor ping district zones, and eliminate the Route 1 corridor to remain out of the intersection of Sand Sports 29 North Brunswick them from C-l and C-3 zones. "attractive" and to preserve "what Cover slory C-l zones are neighborhood we can" on the highway. Continued on page 25 Visit Greater Media Newspapers' Web site www.gmnews.com 2 SENTINEL, AUGUST 3, 2000 *** Win the Chance to Be a Real Clown at the Circus! When AUW Comes to Town! 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Age Attn: Circus Contest 3 NS S.B.SENTINEL, board AUGUST 3~200d 3 moves to take land for school SOLTH BRUNSWICK — The Board of Education has decided to start ton demnation proceedings to acquire land toi a new Deans Rhode Hall Road eleihcntan school Go\ eminent bodies ha\e the ruht to take propert\ foi public use under eminent domain The board \oted unanimously \londiv to be bring legal proceedings to acquire title to the 25-atre tract Voters approved con htruLtion of a new school there in an October 1999 referendum Vincent DeLuua an administrative assistant to Schools Superintendent Sam Stewart said the board has been negotiating to buy the property located at the inteisec tion of Route HO tor the past M\ months The owners rejected the board s latest S2 million bid which was based on appioxi- matelv S80 0U0 per acre The propertv according to DeLuua is owned bv Cod\ Ecker and Dan Gatarz who own an area architectural firm, and Ecker s mother MARIE ORTIZ As part of last yeai ^ S47 million ret NIGHT OUT IN SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Jan Ochs and Ray "The Prize Guy" of Magic 98.3 play "Guess the Song" at erendum voters approved construction of a South Brunswick's National Night Out Festival Tuesday at Woodlot Park.The annual night out against crime event is spon- new elementary school an addition to the sored by the Police Department. high school and conversion of the district grades 5-6 upper elementary school to a middle school "It is critical to make sure the school can open on time in the fall of 2002," DeLucia I\I.B. council to split rezoning ordinance said, when the district plans to convert to a K-5 configuration Little also brought up the July 10 hear- Council now favors Councilman Leo Ryan, who sits on the Work at the upper elementary school Planning Board, agreed with Spaulding ing on the original zoning ordinance at should be completed by September 2001, he office research use at about not rezornng the Route 1-130 land to which Woodmont representatives said that said, and the high school addition should tenants would include a CD and video Route 1-130 circle tract commercial A retail center in that area open by the fall of 2003 would create a "burden to the overall pop- store and a North Brunswick Staples store The future upper elementary school has ulated traffic pattern," he said that would move to the Woodmont loca- many of its sixth-grade classrooms at BY CRAIG YETSKO tion Staff Writer Ryan lent his support to the Berman Crossroads Middle School, which is 'liter- plan, however, explaining that the "ratable That disclosure 'put a sour note in our ally bursting at the seams now said NORTH BRUNSWICK — The re-is good" and it would generate less traffic throat,' Little said DeLucia zoning issue is now back in the Township during peak hours than an office complex A recently formed group which op- 'Contingency plans would cause a hard Council's court He said Monday that approximately poses both Route 1 rezoning proposals ship to kids if the new elementary school Last week, the Planning Board voted 3,000 to 4,000 vehicles would be entering reacted to Spaulding's recent decision and does not open on time he added unanimously to recommend that the coun- or