Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • SBPD maintains safe streets during holiday season

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The streets were much safer this holiday season thanks to the South Brunswick Police Department. The township began its increased efforts to curb drunken driving on Dec. 6 after receiving a state grant that allowed for an increase in patrol officers. At the end of the detail, on Jan. 2, a total…

  • Charity seeking medical doctors, nurses for Ugandan trip in 2011

    Sylvia’s Children, a 501(c)3 organization based in New Jersey, is looking for all types of medical professionals interested in a voluntourism opportunity caring for children in Uganda, Africa, March 17-29, 2011. Those interested can contact Sylvia Allen at [email protected] or call 732-946-2711. Sylvia’s Children supports more than 1,000 children at the Mbiriizi Advanced Primary and…

  • No changes to recycling, garbage pickup in S.B. on Monday

    South Brunswick Township homeowners with garbage or recycling pick up scheduled for Monday, Jan. 17, will not have an interruption of service due to Martin Luther King Day. Although township offices will be closed, the contractor will be performing normally scheduled Monday collections. Call the Public Works office with any questions at 732-329-4000, ext. 7260.

  • Here’s our whole ‘kitten caboodle’ of goofs and gaffes for 2010

    BLOOPERS ADELE YOUNG Every year we like to look back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ 10 weekly publications. These near-gaffes come not only from our own staff, but also from our readers, PR representatives and even job applicants. As hard as the writers and…

  • Cast members don’t stop believin’ in their own talents

    Student-run ‘Theatre Revue’ to be held this weekend at NBTHS BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Dancers walk through a scene from “Footloose” during a rehearsal for “Theatre Revue 2011,” to be held this weekend at North Brunswick Township High School. “Theatre Revue” is a compilation of skits and numbers from television, theater and the movies…

  • S.B. changes insurance funds

    Town expects to see significant savings BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer I n a move that could save the township $650,000 in 2011, South Brunswick voted at a Dec. 31 emergency Township Council meeting to switch insurance carriers. The council voted to change from the Garden State Joint Insurance Fund (GSJIF), which the township had…

  • Vets turn fabrics of war into artwork

    Combat Paper Project uses paper making as healing process BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Drew Matott works on a design during the Combat Paper Project held at the Vietnam Era Museum and Educational Center in Holmdel last month. Below: Jim Petillo, Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, works on the project. Bottom: Linderman, executive…

  • S.B. police officer injured in auto accident

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — In the evening hours of Jan. 5, four people, including a South Brunswick police officer, were injured in a motor vehicle accident on Kingston Lane. The accident, which involved a South Brunswick police cruiser, occurred outside Crossroads South Middle School just before 5:30 p.m. as an officer was responding to a call…

  • Scott ‘opens doors’ as county sheriff

    Ex-freeholder is Middlesex’s first new sheriff in 30 years, first female sheriff BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer The Hon. Travis L. Francis (r), assignment judge of the state Superior Court Middlesex Vicinage, administers the oath of office to Sheriff Mildred S. Scott as her mother, Gertrude Lincoln, and husband, Richard D. Scott, hold the Bible…