Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Tree removal

    Trees are being removed on the future site of MainStreetNB on Route 1. A truck relocates a tree last week to a “safe zone” area for trees that will be saved and relocated in the future into the village landscaping. Though roughly 360 trees will be cut down, 1,400 shade trees will be replanted as…

  • North Brunswick community shows how much it cares

    Annual Care to Walk to end breast and ovarian cancer will be held on Oct. 21 BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Evelyn Smirnow’s life changed forever on Oct. 26, 1997, the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. For about two months prior to that fateful Friday, the North Brunswick resident had…

  • Middlesex County to provide MORE protection to its seniors

    The Elder Law Forum, part of the MORE Unit, will host seminars on scams, wills, etc. A series of seminars are scheduled to help senior citizens with a variety of legal issues, ranging from planning their wills to protecting themselves from thefts by con artists. The Elder Law Forum, presented by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s…

  • Seeds of hope surround survivors

    Thousands join grassroots efforts to help those affected by breast cancer BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Thirteen mortgage payments, 18 rent payments, 21 electric bills, 14 gas bills, 11 medical co-payments: Paid. Car payments, medical equipment, phone bills, water bills, cable bills … For some local breast cancer patients, such costs have been taken care…

  • Local company makes up ways to help breast cancer survivors

    L’Oreal USA in Cranbury holds events throughout the year to support the Komen Foundation BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The Ultimate Air Dogs show was just one part of a funfilled day in August to raise money for Komen for the Cure. JENNIFER AMATO Nine years ago, an employee in the distribution center of L’Oreal…

  • Medical director: We can get through it

    Gains in breast cancer evaluation and treatment offer greater hope BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Dr. Debra Camal ‘Cancer is biologically angry.” These words, spoken by Debra Camal, the medical director of the breast program at Meridian Cancer Care, ring true for those affected by breast cancer. “Central New Jersey, in general, does have a…

  • Events support breast cancer awareness

    SMS annual Breast Cancer Walk to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation will be held 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5 at Sayreville Middle School, Washington Road, Parlin. Visit www.sayreville k12.net Sisters Network of Central New Jersey, Inc., a national African American breast cancer survivorship organization, will host a 5K Race/Walk4Life, 7:30…

  • Judge removes bail for cop involved in fatal accident

    Lt. Keith Buckley is allowed to use funds to seek another lawyer BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — A Superior Court judge has removed the bail for North Brunswick Police Lt. Keith Buckley, who in 2008 was involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident that killed fellow Lt. Christopher Zerby. On Sept. 17,…