Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Learning the right moves
VERONICA YANKOWSKI Calvin Kim, 6, calculates his next move during his chess lessons at the North Brunswick Chess Club meeting Jan. 24 at the municipal building on Hermann Road. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Kids are learning what it means to say "checkmate" in the township’s chess club. The club is a group of seven local children…
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No. Bruns. resident’s photos to be shown at library
No. Bruns. resident’s photos to be shown at library Photographs by North Brunswick resident Richard Bachman will be displayed from Feb. 1-28 on the walls of the East Brunswick Public Library, Jean Walling Civic Center. In recognition of February as Black History Month, handmade African artwork from the private collections of members of the African-American…
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Resident: Employees need more than pat on the back
Work Perks offerseverything from massages and manicures to yogaand psychic readings By jennifer domeStaff Writer Work Perks offers everything from massages and manicures to yoga and psychic readings By jennifer dome Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ Marlene Leitman, an East Brunswick resident who has started a business specializes in employee-appreciation events, massages a customer’s neck last…
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North Brunswick’s Jan. scholar athletes named
By jennifer kohlheppStaff Writer North Brunswick’s Jan. scholar athletes named By jennifer kohlhepp Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township proudly announced the January recipients of the Scholar Athlete Awards. The Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), the mayor and Township Council will honor Julie Rose, 15, and Tim Riley, 15, for their high academic…
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Local craftsman a cut above the rest
Turning pieces of wood into works of art more than just a hobby By jennifer kohlheppStaff Writer By jennifer kohlhepp Staff Writer Veronica Yankowski Steve Levine, a wood artisan, works on a project in his South Brunswick workshop. Levine has been working with wood for over 40 years. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Dayton resident Steven B.…
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Senior facility aims to keeps zest for life alive
By jennifer kohlheppStaff Writer By jennifer kohlhepp Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ Vanessa Godfrey, activities director for South Brunswick’s Buckingham Place, holds a crossword puzzle for residents Mary Corbett (l-r), Nicoletta Bartolotti, Carol Dixon, Eleanor Santorini and Edith Wexler in the facility’s library. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Buckingham Place aims to rejuvenate the lives of older adults…
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The best is still ahead
AfterthoughtsCharles W. Kim Afterthoughts Charles W. Kim S ome things just get better with age. That is such a cliché. Those words, a phrase we have all heard during the years, left me little comfort as the hours until my 40th birthday dwindled on Sunday night. For the last week my heart felt the weight…
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Two new police officers in N.B.
Two new police officers in N.B. NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township Police Department welcomed two new officers this week. The department will assign police officers Jason Zier and Nathaniel Nicholson to the patrol division upon their completion of in-service training, according to Police Director Michael Moriarty. According to a press release, Zier, 25, of North…
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Woman, 80, killed in Route 1 crash
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — An 80-year-old township woman is dead following a collision on Route 1 Jan. 16. The accident took place at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Route 522. The victim, Rita Winick, was a front-seat passenger in a 1989 Toyota Camry driven by her husband, William Winick, 82. Police said that the Camry…
