Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Museum celebrates water as art world inspiration

    Water is the subject and title of a far-reaching exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this fall. Ranging from a 17th-century Chinese landscape to Bill Viola’s 2005 visceral video work, “Ablutions,” works on display are drawn from the museum’s own collections of French, American, Russian and SovietNonconformist art,…

  • Restaurant no longer ‘steak’ing claim in local market

    Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse closed in Kingston section of South Brunswick BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Say goodbye to the endless salad bar. CB Holding Corp., the Mountainsidebased company that owns the Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse chain, announced Nov 15 the closing of 20 steakhouse locations, almost half of the chain, which includes the…

  • S.B. pharmaceutical company receives federal contract

    Snowdon Inc. works to discover drug molecules to combat biological warfare pathogens BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A South Brunswick company recently received a three-year, $8.2 million contract from the Department of Defense (DOD). Snowdon Inc., a company that focuses on pharmaceutical drug discovery and development, was contracted to discover novel potential…

  • As Afghan war continues, so does local supply drive

    BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer United States Marine Corps. Capt. (ret.) Ken Springer has only been volunteering with the nonprofit American Recreational Military Services (ARMS) for one year, but he knows all too well how important the organization is to the morale of the country’s military service members. Springer, a Freehold resident, served during the…

  • Middlesex County celebrates National Adoption Day

    Eighteen children adopted to families in Edison, Monroe North Brunswick, Sayreville BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Speaking to a room filled with suits and strollers, Assignment Judge of Middlesex County Travis Francis called Nov. 18 the “happiest day in the courthouse.” It would be hard to find anyone milling about the second…

  • Parents can help prevent cyberbullying crimes

    Adults need to form trusting relationships with children, monitor technology use BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The balance between being involved in a child’s life without being intrusive is a difficult situation many parents face nowadays. However, with the advances coming about in social media and technology, it is even more imperative…

  • Bera sisters ready to make their mark on Broadway

    Taylor, 11, and Maggie, 15, building impressive stage résumés BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Maggie (l) and Taylor Bera (r) with librettist and lyricist Nicole Kempskie. SAYREVILLE — At age 11, Sayreville’s Taylor Bera left on her first professional tour — performing in the musical “Little House on the Prairie.” Now that the tour is…

  • All the right moves

    Former dance retiree teaches local boys the art of break dance, hip-hop dance BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Students look on during a recent Boyz Only! Hip-Hop dance class. SCOTT FRIEDMAN NEW BRUNSWICK — It’s all about selfexpression. That is the focus of Daniel Levi-Sanchez’s new Boyz Only! Hip-Hop dance class, offered at the extension…

  • Turkey Trot

    Top left: Melody Gomez (c) gets ready to go on a hayride during the Sabella Park Preschool Turkey Trot on Nov. 16 in North Brunswick. Above: Sabella Park Preschool’s Debi Verpent waits for the start of the hayride. Bottom left: Arianna Penna gets ready to start moving.