Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • PSE&G lowers natural gas bills

    PSE&G has announced that it is lowering residential gas bills by an additional 4.6 percent, or nearly $8.53 per winter month for the typical residential customer. The utility said the action represents the eighth decrease in a row for residential customers, for a total of more than $614, or 35 percent, in savings since January…

  • Local company’s drone intercepts Japanese whaling fleet

    Bayshore Recycling Corp.’s donation helps stop the slaughtering of whales Sea Shepherd security officer Jeffrey Milstein (l-r), pilot Christopher Aultman and Capt. Paul Watson stand in the hangar of the Sea Shepherd’s ship, the Steve Irwin, with the drone Nicole Montecalvo, donated by Bayshore Recycling Corp. of Woodbridge. The drone helped intercept a Japanese whaling…

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    Riana Marques, 2, of North Brunswick, shoots for a hole in one during a children’s carnival held by the North Brunswick Township High School Key Club on Jan. 6. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Photographers pick best of 2011

    Members of the Old Bridge Township Raceway Park at the 36th annual Night of Thrills. JEFF GRANIT staff Students at Dwight D. Eisenhower School in Sayreville decorate Principal Justin Fiory as an ice cream sundae. JEFF GRANIT staff Jennifer Bookbinder crawls her way through the mud-drenched course during the Rock Solid Mud Run in Old…

  • N.B. elects Indian-American council president

    Shanti Narra sworn in Jan. 2; mayor, two councilmen resume positions BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Shanti Narra became the first Southeast Asian American to be named North Brunswick Township Council president . During the council’s reorganization meeting Jan. 2, Narra was joined by her mother and sister as she was sworn in. She said…

  • So. Brunswick council looks forward to prosperous 2012

    Attracting businesses, forming teen action committee are among upcoming goals BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer The South Brunswick Township Council offered a hopeful but sobering prediction for 2012’s fiscal prospects at its reorganization meeting Jan. 3. During the short Tuesday conference, Mayor Frank Gambatese and Councilmen Joseph Camarota, John O’Sullivan and Chris Killmurray praised municipal officials…

  • Local church prays for peace, remembers fallen heroes

    Special Mass at St. Augustine of Canterbury remembers those killed in military John Backovsky, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, presented a candle in remembrance of all Marines killed in action during the history of the United States, during a Solemn Mass for World Day of Prayer for Peace at St. Augustine of Canterbury on…

  • So. Brunswick to introduce senior car service

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A new senior-targeted car service will fill the gaps between public transportation on Routes 27 and 130 and the Senior Busing between homes and the Senior Center. Starting in April, EZ Ride will provide their Community Car program to township residents who register annually with the company for…

  • Peace Corps. volunteer explains the circle of life

    Daniel Popielarski visits Uganda, Skypes with N.B. students, visits aunt’s class to share experiences BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Students of Sharon McGlynn (back), of Livingston Park Elementary School, have been learning about her nephew, Daniel Popielarski, (back left), who is a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Uganda. He visited her North Brunswick classroom…