Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Changing the world one child at a time

    Big Brothers Big Sisters matches disadvantaged youths with mentors BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Royce Winsten, 2013 Big Brother of the Year, listens as his “little,” Wayne, plays bass in Belmar on Jan. 15. ERIC SUCAR staff In 1998, Waldo Sainvilus was a student at Asbury Park Middle School struggling with coursework when he was…

  • Father’s words offer healing, attention to PTSD

    Gold Star father’s second collection of poetry published BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — When William Koch Jr. writes his poetry, which teems with a bittersweet combination of national pride and overwhelming grief, he feels he has special support. “I feel like they’re pushing and pulling me to write about patriotism, to write…

  • So. Brunswick publicizing gun amnesty program

    Project Safe Surrender allows residents to relinquish firearms BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer The South Brunswick Police Department is publicizing the Project Safe Surrender gun amnesty program in the township. Project Safe Surrender will inform residents how to surrender firearms — both legal and illegal — to the township. The program’s reinvigoration came at the…

  • Grant allows S.B. police to increase motel enforcement

    Twenty-two charges lodged against suspects in a three-month span SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office awarded a community concerns grant to South Brunswick police in order to increase police presence and enforcement at area motels. The details, which enhanced information sharing about problems in the area, focused on community development and relationship building…

  • Nurturing nature

    Students help county care for open space areas, no matter how cold BY JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent Korie Vee (l) and Branden Lenahan of the Middlesex County Youth Conservation Corps collect garbage as part of a pitch pine restoration project on Jan. 17 at the Jamesburg Park Conservation Area on the border of Monroe and East…

  • Struthers, Calvert honor Patsy Cline

    As seen in TheBeachBeat.com Emmy Award-winner Sally Struthers and Broadway star Carter Calvert will take the stage at Algonquin Arts Theatre, 173 Main St., Manasquan, when “Always Patsy Cline” opens on Jan. 25 for a two-weekend run. More than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane…

  • North Brunswick recognizes MLK Day with celebration

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King Jr. could talk. King talked so Malcolm X could walk. Malcolm X walked so Barack Obama could run. Obama ran so children could fly. A celebration of these pivotal moments in history took place at the North Brunswick municipal building…

  • S.B. police chief shares views on school security

    Encourages school-police communication; discourages use of armed guards BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police Chief Raymond Hayducka recently spoke as part of a statewide panel to discuss school safety in the wake of the recent shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Hayducka, who also serves as the president…

  • Organization asks community to answer the call, literally

    ‘Super Sunday’ phone-a-thon benefits those in dire circumstances BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer While the term “Super Sunday” is usually used in reference to the Super Bowl, to the Jewish Federation of Middlesex County it means a whole lot more. The annual event, which started in 1985, benefits a variety of different organizations throughout Middlesex…