Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Teachers and board reach agreement

    Marathon negotiatingsession is fruitfulin South Brunswick BY CHARLES W. KIMStaff Writer Marathon negotiating session is fruitful in South Brunswick CHARLES W. KIM Kristine Kaufman and Alexis Pezzicola join about 300 teachers in a rally at South Brunswick H.S. on Tuesday. BY CHARLES W. KIM Staff Writer South Brunswick teachers may finally have a deal. South Brunswick Education Association President…

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    FARRAH MAFFAI staff North Brunswick preschoolers and their parents enjoy a hay ride through Sabella Park during the township’s annual Turkey Trot festivities Tuesday. See page 7.

  • Tip leads S.B. police to suspect in assault

    Tip leads S.B. police to suspect in assault SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A tip-off to DYFS led police to charge a local man with aggravated sexual assault. Raymond Derrico, 28, of the township was arrested last week at the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office in New Brunswick. Derrico is charged with assaulting a 13-year-old girl at a…

  • NJ Transit to study bus plan

    BY CHARLES W. KIMStaff WriterSOUTH BRUNSWICK NJ Transit to study bus plan BY CHARLES W. KIM Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — NJ Transit seeks to improve bus service on Route 1. The agency announced last week that it will award a $614,000 contract to STV, Inc., New York, to study the potential of enacting a rapid…

  • Athletes of month honored

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Two Linwood Middle School students took the township’s top honor for November as Scholar Athletes of the Month. Mayor David Spaulding presented Erin Dunne and Chris Kolias, both eighth-grade honor students at Linwood, with the Scholar Athlete of the Month Award during the Township Council meeting Nov. 17. Department of Parks and…

  • Wild cats get reprieve from N.B. council

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Wild cats get reprieve from N.B. council JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Cameo, a 4-month-old kitten Animal Lifesavers retrieved from the cat colony in North Brunswick, awaits adoption at the East Brunswick PetSmart on Route 18. BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A local animal adoption group has six months to try…

  • Annual Turkey

    TrotheraldsholidayNorth Brunswickpreschool students have own tradition BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer Trot heralds holiday North Brunswick preschool students have own tradition BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Jesse Scher, 6, relaxes on the hay ride traveling through Sabella Park at the North Brunswick Department of Parks and Recreation’s annual preschool Turkey Trot. Now…

  • Monroe objects to South Brunswick gas station

    Application for site plan scheduled for Dec. 18 BY CHARLES W. KIMStaff Writer Application for site plan scheduled for Dec. 18 BY CHARLES W. KIM Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The final plan for a new gas station may soon be approved at the intersection of routes 522 and 535. The plan for a new…

  • Arrested illegals sue Wal-Mart, cleaning contractors

    BY SANDI CARPELLO & JENNIFER DOMEStaff Writers BY SANDI CARPELLO & JENNIFER DOME Staff Writers Eunice Gomez does not want to go home. Despite her inability to find work, the constant struggle to make her $2,000-a-month rent, being forced to eat noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the imminent threat of deportation, the 26-year-old illegal immigrant…