Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Local legislators propose charter school reforms

    Charter schools concerned that this will prevent their establishment in towns BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Several Middlesex County legislators are championing a package of bills that require controversial charter school reforms for the state. The bills increase transparency and establish voter input as part of the charter school process, according to their sponsors. They were…

  • Crossroads North holds annual ‘Day With the Characters’

    Students perform ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ have lunch with township seniors BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer The Crossroads North Middle School performed the musical comedy “Once Upon a Mattress” for seniors from the South Brunswick Senior Center on Feb. 1.SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The love of theater arts bonded South Brunswick’s generations together at the seventh annual…

  • No. Brunswick decides to hold school board elections in Nov.

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer School board candidate elections will now be held in November in North Brunswick. During a special meeting Feb. 1, the school board voted to approve changing the election date, which is normally the third Tuesday in April, to the same date as the general election, which is the first Tuesday…

  • Robert Hegyes touched lives of many in hometown he loved

    Actor, 60, recalled as a loving friend and a ‘gentle soul’; best known for ‘Kotter’ role BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Robert Hegyes METUCHEN — Even as he became a star of the TV screen, Robert Hegyes never forgot where he grew up. “He kept friendships alive, that is the kind of person he was,”…

  • Children tend to suffer from being ‘chairborne’

    Local fitness studio offers solution for kids who may be at ‘Rizk’ BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Fourth- and fifth-graders at John Adams Elementary School in North Brunswick have a blast during the “Made to Move 3D” fitness program on Feb. 1. Students of the North Brunswick Department of Parks & Recreation’s after-school LEAL program…

  • Soccer stars

    Tim Howard, of North Brunswick, spends time with Tess, 12, and Paige, 8, Kowalksi, who along with their parents, Tim and Leslie, all of Plainsboro, were the winners of the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome’s Team Up With Tim Howard Raffle. The nationwide raffle raised money to support NJCTS programs and outreach services for…

  • Artist is providing hope by photographing Lakewood residents

    Sherry Rubel, of S.B., must raise $5,000 by Feb. 20 to continue her project BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A South Brunswick photographer hopes to turn a passion project into a vehicle for change for the homeless in Lakewood. Sherry Rubel, a staff photographer for the Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, is using…

  • Workshop shows that girls are different from boys

    Young girls learn, think and handle conflict in unique ways BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The differences between girls and boys go far deeper than physical attributes, according to staff members of the South Brunswick School District. Hosts of the Jan. 31 Parent Academy workshop titled “Sugar & Spice and Not Everything Nice?…

  • South Brunswick Landfill may benefit from solar power

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Plans to bring solar power to the South Brunswick Landfill on New Road are in preliminary stages, according to Peg Mulloy, media relations manager for the property owner, Republic Services Inc. The Superfund site served as a landfill for over 20 years before it was closed by the…