Category: Sentinel-NBS Calendar

  • Chase at mall leads to loss of employee’s teeth

    Staff Writer By vincent todaro EAST BRUNSWICK — A group of workers from two businesses in the Brunswick Square Mall chased and caught a man accused of shoplifting last week, but the chase cost one of those workers two of his front teeth, according to police. The employee at the Voice Stream booth at the…

  • Video still etched in memory

    Richie Johnson probably has saved more lives with his own demise through a drug overdose than he’ll ever know. A young woman in her mid-20s still recalls the haunting videotape she saw in middle school. Speaking anonymously, she said, "The impression of that tape is still with me like it was yesterday. I can remember…

  • Various methods used to fill DARE program void

    Staff Writer By charles w. kim Various methods used to fill DARE program void “DARE to keep kids off drugs” There are programs available to help young people who get involved with drugs after they graduate from the national Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. In South Brunswick, Middlesex County, police work with the community…

  • DARE classes seen as a positive experience

    Staff Writer By lindsey siegle FARRAH MAFFAI The Drug Abuse Identification Kit, also called the drug board or drug box, shows a variety of legal and illegal drugs and paraphernalia and also explains the effects of their abuse. Youngsters often say the box is what they remember most about Dare. Since it began in Los…

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    PHOTO COURTESY ALBORADA SPANISH DANCE THEATER Members of the Alborada Spanish Dance Theater will be performing at Crossroads Middle School on Major Road Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. The show is sponsored by the South Brunswick Arts Commission.

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Grace Vignolo, 2 months, visits her first Turkey Trot with mom, Susan, during the North Brunswick Township Parks and Recreation Department’s Preschool Program’s annual celebration at Sabella Park, Tuesday.

  • So. Bruns. traffic master plan hearing Wednesday

    So. Bruns. traffic master plan hearing Wednesday SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The public will finally get a look at the Circulation Master Plan. "The plan will be available to the public by Monday," Mayor and Planning Board member Debra Johnson said Tuesday night. The plan was adopted by the town’s Planning Board last week, but had…

  • Suspected burglar shares pizza with dog

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — John Kissel, 18, with a last known address of Township Line Road in Hillsborough, was arrested and charged with burglary at 3:30 a.m. Nov. 15. Kissel, who had allegedly broken into a Beekman Manor home several hours earlier by entering through a doggy door, was caught later in the day as he…

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    CHARLES W. KIM South Brunswick Mayor Debra Johnson unveils the new “Crossroads” Mural donated by local artist Ludvic Saleh at the municipal building on Route 522 Tuesday night.