Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Business tactic encourages having a FART party

    Sales Professional Forum offers success techniques from one business owner to another BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer EDISON — One would not expect a conversation about FARTs to be conducted at a professional business lecture. However, Friday Afternoon Recreation Therapy [FART] was suggested by Cristin Mallinder, a personal chef with Be My Guest, as a…

  • Spring ahead

    Earth Day every day: Top: South Brunswick Environmental Commission Chairman Dan Van Abs tries to pull a plastic bottle from the Heathcote Brook at the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association’s fifth annual stream cleanup at the Noor Ul-Iman School in South Brunswick on April 10. Van Abs was among 23 volunteers who worked to haul 71…

  • Middlesex Dems’ Gottlieb to receive Roberts Award

    Middlesex County Democratic Chairwoman Helen Gottlieb is the recipient of the New Jersey Federation of Democratic Women’s 2011 Peg Roberts Award. “I am humbled to receive the Peg Roberts Award,” Gottlieb said. “It is an honor to be included with all the prior recipients who have done so much for the Democratic Party.” Gottlieb will…

  • S.B. American Legion honors longstanding members

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Two members of the American Legion Post 401, South Brunswick, were honored for over 50 years of service. Pictured are (l-r) Post Commander Gary Cooper, John Dye Jr. and William Bason. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two local men were recently honored for their longstanding memberships with American Legion Post 401. John…

  • New Jersey 9/11 memorial fundraiser set for May 9

    The New Jersey 9/11 Memorial Foundation will hold its “Empty Sky” Memorial Benefit Dinner on May 9 at the Short Hills Hilton. The event will be hosted by NJ 101.5-FM’s Dennis Malloy and features the musical entertainment of Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer — The Midtown Men — four stars…

  • Seaside Heights: Amusements, eateries, fests in a small package

    Boro embraces ‘Jersey Shore’ reality show as economic boon and tourist magnet BY DAN HOWLEY Seaside Heights beach and boardwalk The borough of Seaside Heights is anything but a quiet town along the New Jersey coast, which is exactly how the shore town likes it. At less than one square mile in size, the borough…

  • N.B. residents ‘CERT’ainly make an impression

    Township Council honors students, adults who contribute to the community Volunteers for the North Brunswick Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) were honored for their service at a recent council meeting. The next training session will begin at the end of April. JENNIFER AMATO NORTH BRUNSWICK — Several residents were honored during the April 4 Township…

  • Manasquan: small-town charm & an eclectic downtown

    Main Street draws visitors in summer as well as at holiday time BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Downtown Manasquan With miles of attractive beaches and a thriving downtown, Manasquan offers more than your average beach town. Manasquan has been a seaside destination since 1878, when railroads offered convenient access to New York City and the…

  • Edison man pleads guilty to murder, child endangerment

    Dwayne Jackson admits to strangling No. Bruns. woman, setting body on fire NEW BRUNSWICK — An Edison man has pleaded guilty to charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child, admitting he strangled a North Brunswick woman in her apartment and then abandoned their 20-month-old daughter at a gas station in Delaware. Dwayne…