Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Idea for football field at county park gets blocked

    DKM property to house soccer and lacrosse teams BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Although there has been interest in a football field being added to the new county park being built on the border of North Brunswick and Milltown, the possibility seems very slim. According to Ralph Albanir, the director of the…

  • Officers to enforce seatbelt usage this month

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — The “Click It or Ticket” national campaign will once again be instituted between May 18 and 31. Law enforcement officers will be cracking down on unbuckled motorists and their passengers as part of the campaign. There will be seatbelt checkpoints, saturation patrols and local publicity to ensure that motorists recognize the value…

  • N.B. roadwork continuing now through end of ’09

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township’s 2009 Road Program was launched last week, including nearly $3 million in street and utility improvements to nearly a dozen municipal roadways. Currently, work on Newton Street is under way. Later this spring, work will begin on sections of Cedar Avenue and Ashland Place. Soon after, roadwork will begin on…

  • Here’s the windup

    Matthew “Mattzooka” Kirchheimer, 8, allowed no hits and struck out the side as his Yankees team in the Senior Farm I division of the South Brunswick Athletic Association recreational baseball league played against the Dodgers April 24. He has twice won the High-Speed Pitch contest for his age group at the Trenton Thunder ballpark and…

  • LMS sixth-graders raise money for St. Jude’s hospital

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Thirty sixthgrade students at Linwood Middle School raised $1,256 to benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by participating in the St. Jude Math-a-Thon last month. The students each received a workbook containing math problems and could either ask for flat donations or for sponsorship for each…

  • Business Briefs

    The Natural Health Center of Central NJ, Davidson Mill Road, North Brunswick, will present canine CPR and first aid with Cynthia Sinicropi-Balena, certified CPR instructor, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 30. Registration must be done by May 25, and seating is limited. To register, call the Center at 732-821- 5800 or visit www.nathealthctr.com. Kiddie Academy of…

  • Round & round they go

    Right: Olivia Szucs participated in a Trike-athon at Sand Hills Preschool of Community Presbyterian Church in Kendall Park on May 8. Top: Students ride through a course during the fundraiser, which raised $2155.50 to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Above: D.J. Myers accidentally crashed into another biker during the event. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Police shut down S.B. spa suspected of prostitution

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police recently made several arrests and seized nearly $2,000 cash from a local massage parlor that is under suspicion of prostitution. The South Brunswick Police Department initiated an investigation after the mayor’s office received an anonymous complaint of suspected prostitution at a business called June Spa II, according to a press release…

  • Two So. Brunswick businesses robbed on the same day

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two male suspects entered the Stop Buy Food Store on Ridge Road in the Monmouth Junction section of town and pulled out guns at roughly 4:15 p.m. May 2, according to police. The two men demanded money and the cashier opened the register, giving them an undisclosed amount of money. Both suspects…