Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Holla for challah

    Top: While their dough is rising, fellow bakers take direction from Goldie Azimov on how to braid their dough during the “Loaves of Love” challah-baking event for women at the Chabad of South Brunswick in North Brunswick on Feb. 9. Above: Sarah Paley, 13, of East Brunswick, separates the sticky dough during the challah baking.…

  • S.B. police officer helps capture suspected gang member

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force captured a suspected gang member who was wanted by several law enforcement agencies after a South Brunswick police officer positively identified the suspect on Route 1 on Jan. 28. Harry Harrington Jr., 43, of Trenton, escaped arrest during a car chase with Officer Michael Leung…

  • North Brunswick hires three new police officers

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Justin Hansen was determined to be a police officer. He took the civil service exam in 2002 and scored well, but military veterans were being hired first. So the Hamilton West High School graduate decided that he would join the military. Following in the footsteps of his father, who was…

  • Free trees to celebrate Arbor Day 2012

    The New Jersey Tree Foundation is offering free 2-year-old trees (1 feet to 2 feet tall) to celebrate Arbor Day 2012 in New Jersey. To apply, go to http://bit.ly/rtpwcn. The deadline for application materials is Feb. 24.

  • Dayton student receives the right medicine for her career

    As part of Rider U. Hospital Intern Program, Jaclyn Valler shadows medical professionals SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A Dayton college student experienced the daily rotations of various Capital Health medical professionals as part of a two-week Rider Hospital Intern Program, according to a Rider University press release. Jaclyn Valler, a junior and behavioral neuroscience major, was…

  • Year of the Dragon

    Sisters Ariocie Liang (l to r) and Billie Liang, and sisters Vanessa and Andrea Huang, all of Edison, perform a traditional Chinese dance during the Chinese Lantern Festival at the North Brunswick Township Library on Feb. 5. The event was sponsored by the Little Spring Montessori Academy of North Brunswick. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Transparency bill sheds light on ‘shadow govt.’

    BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Close to 600 local authorities and commissions spend $5 billion in taxpayer money per year that until recently was nearly impossible to track in New Jersey’s so-called “shadow government.” “Seven out of 587 [government entities] have basic information available online. That’s a pretty paltry number especially when you recognize that…

  • Chew

    To celebrate Catholic Schools Week last week, students at St. Augustine of Canterbury School in Kendall Park collected over 800 pounds of food for the South Brunswick Food Pantry and Community Outreach Program. The theme for Catholic Schools Week this year was “Faith, Academics, Service,” and the Odyssey of the Mind teams from the school…

  • NJDOT announces plans to improve Rte. 130/Adams Lane intersection in N.B.

    Utility work will begin within the next few weeks Jennifer Amato Construction work will begin in a couple of weeks to improve the Route 130/Adams Lane intersection in North Brunswick.   PSE&G and Verizon are expected to start moving utility poles as the first step of a $9.2 million federally funded project that should be…