Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • An apple a day

    Dahlia Wolkoff, a pre-kindergarten student at the JCC of North and South Brunswick Nursery School, North Brunswick, shows off the bag of apples she picked at Giamarese Farms in East Brunswick on Sept. 21. Two classes of 3-year-olds and pre-k students went on a hayride and picked apples as part of the school’s annual farm…

  • N.B. landlords required to register properties by Oct. 1

    Resident, however, believes new regulations violate state law BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Landlords who are renting residential properties in the township must register those properties by Oct. 1. The Township Council amended the Municipal Rental Housing Code in July and established a new three-year landlord registration requirement with an associated fee…

  • Simon Says, ‘Become part of the Guinness Book of World Records’

    Goddard School of No. Brunswick participates in nationwide event BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Pre-kindergartner Samantha Milsted (middle) plays Simon Says at the Goddard School of North Brunswick on Sept. 23 in an attempt to enter into the Guinness Book of World Records. ERIC SUCAR staff NORTH BRUNSWICK — Simon says, “Put your hands on…

  • Summer trip to Germany: a memorable experience

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Ty Gardner picked up a few choice words this summer. Genau means “exactly.” Gruss gott” means “God’s greeting.” The Linwood Middle School student spent three weeks in August living in a boarding school in the town of Marquartstein, Germany. Along with 87 other students from around the…

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    Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th District) visited North Brunswick Township High School on Sept. 19 because the township’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant expired this month, and the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has proposed a bill to completely eliminate the COPS program. The township had received more than $1.2 million in COPS…

  • Laws intended to help New Jersey veterans

    Gov. Chris Christie has signed legislation that creates and enhances assistance tools that provide financial support and peer counseling services through the New Jersey National Guard State Family Readiness Council Fund and the Veteran to Veteran Peer Support Program telephone helpline. “Every day, the brave men and women of the New Jersey National Guard put…

  • ‘When Winter Comes’

    Art exhibit and more at S.B. Municipal Building BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer The juried art exhibit “When Winter Comes” will be featured at the South Brunswick municipal building through Dec. 26. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Winter, in all its colors, forms and connotations, is the theme of the latest South Brunswick Arts Commission exhibit. Fourteen township…

  • Noor-Ul-Iman first accredited Islamic school in New Jersey

    Creates action plan for next 10 years in South Brunswick BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY The New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) has granted full accreditation to Noor-Ul-Iman (NUI) in Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. NUI is the first Islamic school in the state to be fully accredited by NJAIS. The chase for accreditation began four…

  • Greater Media’s Peter H. Smyth named America’s Best Broadcaster

    Peter H. Smyth Greater Media Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter H. Smyth was named America’s Best Broadcaster by Radio Ink Magazine during the 2011 Annual Radio WayneAwards on Sept. 14 during a special luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago. This honor is given to an individual who has made the greatest impact…