Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Children encouraged to fly into a world of knowledge

    Butterfly show wows kids in South Brunswick on July 21 BY KELLY CRAIG Correspondent Above: Rick Mikula shows a group of live butterflies to children at the South Brunswick Library on July 21. Right: Rick Mikula lets a group of children touch a live butterfly. PHOTOS BY KELLY CRAIG SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Rick Mikula has…

  • Carnevale Italiano provides enjoyment, togetherness

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Destiny Bragg, of North Brunswick, enjoys a ride during the annual Carnevale Italiano in North Brunswick, held July 20-24 along Route 130. SCOTT FRIEDMAN NORTH BRUNSWICK — Every year, Vito Puleio stresses the importance of togetherness and reconnecting at the Carnevale Italiano. As president of the Italian American Social Club…

  • Injured passengers identified in S.B. helicopter crash

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Township police have identified the two people injured in a helicopter crash July 20 in the Dayton section of town. Pilot Edwin Eilbacher, 27, of Hillsborough, and photographer Julia Armstrong- Robertson, 44, of Newark, Del., were both still listed in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick as…

  • Papi retires after 8 years as county health officer

    David A. Papi, director and health officer of the Middlesex County Public Health Department, has retired after more than 40 years with the department. Papi began his career with the health department as an inspector trainee, rising through the ranks as a sanitary inspector, senior inspector, principal inspector, chief inspector, deputy director and, finally, director…

  • Residents encouraged to eat locally grown food

    Via 45 and Elijah’s Promise participate in Farm to Table event BY KELLY CRAIG Correspondent SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Do you ever think about where the food you eat each day really came from? Elijah’s Promise Culinary School of New Brunswick and Via 45, a restaurant from Red Bank, came together to get the community thinking…

  • Middlesex Cty. offering cash rewards for crime stoppers information

    Cash rewards are being offered for information that leads to arrests in a series of incidents in New Brunswick, North Brunswick and Franklin Township. Members of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, the New Brunswick Police Department, the North Brunswick Police Department and the Franklin Township Police Department are actively investigating 10 incidents that occurred between…

  • House OKs funds to help prevent veterans’ suicide

    E.B. family says strides are being made to fill gap in services for veterans BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Millions of dollars to help prevent suicide among U.S. soldiers and reservists is one step closer to being put in place. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) successfully offered an amendment in Congress to…

  • NBPD holds rapid-response active shooter drill

    Officers train to neutralize armed gunmen inside a school BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The North Brunswick Police Department conducted a rapid-response active shooter drill at Linwood Middle School on July 22. The drill prepared officers in case an armed suspect should enter the school. PHOTOS BYLAUREN CASSELBERRY NORTH BRUNSWICK — A group of police…

  • Pop champagne: Officials praise progress of S.B. Senior Center

    July 4 marked 20th anniversary BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Senior does not mean old. That is the message staff members emphasized at the South Brunswick Senior Center’s 20th anniversary celebration on July 14. In fact, while talking with Christine Wildemuth, director of the Office on Aging, words like “active,” “hip” and “trendy”…