Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Community encouraged to start positive chain reaction

    Assembly program honoring Columbine victim will be held Oct. 24 in North Brunswick NORTH BRUNSWICK — Rachel Scott was the first casualty of the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999. She was the victim of two teenage boys who felt mistreated and ostracized, who woke up that morning intending to hurt others. After she…

  • Eat, pray, love

     Over 2,000 people danced and prayed during the sixth annual Navratri Garba celebration in South Brunswick High School on Oct. 8.

  • N.B. Fire Co. 3 chops away at cost of new fire engine

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A township resident has won a custom-designed Orange County Choppers motorcycle. Chris O’Connor was at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at the SolbergAirport in Readington in July when he passed by North Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company No. 3’s stand, where members were selling $20…

  • E-books hurt the sale of actual books in So. Bruns.

    Books left over from warehouse closure will be sold Oct. 15 BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The popularity of e-books is undeniable. According to a report by the Association ofAmerican Publishers, e-book sales represented $49.5 million compared to $11.7 billion for traditional books. This represented a 165 percent increase for e-books from 2009…

  • S.B. discusses ways to fund road program

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Council members discussed funding options for repaving the remaining roads in need of repair throughout the township at the South Brunswick Council meeting on Oct. 4. The amount allocated for the road overlay project in the 2011 budget, a total of $300,000, is almost depleted. Three “transportation improvement…

  • S.B. to move forward with Wetherill House repairs

    BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — With estimated costs in hand, Township Council members decided to move forward with scheduled Wetherill House improvements at their Oct. 4 meeting. The environmental center, however, did not get much support. With the estimated price of repairs at $140,000, council members agreed that the benefits of the environmental…

  • Fun at Von Thun’s

    Top: Children of all ages take part in one of the games at the annual Fall Festival, held by Von Thun Farms in Monmouth Junction, on Oct. 8. The farm’s fall activities and corn maze will be available through the end of the month. Middle: Scott Pearson, of Hamilton, and his 3-year-old daughter Jade make…

  • Milltown man involved in fatal motor vehicle accident

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — A Milltown man was killed in a motor vehicle accident in North Brunswick on Oct. 2. Nicholas Policastro, 32, was traveling west on Milltown Road around 2 a.m. when he lost directional control of his vehicle, ran off the road to the right, traveled across a grass island, crossed over the exit…

  • Local residents have a ball with Haitian orphans

    Point Community Church brings soccer, support to earthquake-ravaged area BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Top: A number of residents from several Middlesex County towns visited the House of Blessings orphanage in Haiti, where they played soccer with the residents. Above: Haitian orphans play soccer on a field that overlooks the region of Calebasse, Haiti. NORTH…