Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Assailants rob victim at warehouse

    Dalord Dumas SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Two masked assailants attacked a security guard at a warehouse in the Dayton section of town. Police were dispatched to the scene at 11:15 p.m. April 24, according to a police press release, when they found a female security guard with her wrists bound at the Home Depot warehouse on…

  • Participants never ‘tire’ of coming to car show

    Cops & Rodders celebrates 15th year in No. Brunswick BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer In 1977, a new house cost $49,000, the average income was $15,000, a new car cost $4,700 and gasoline cost 65 cents a gallon. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Brian Thompson, Kendall Park, checks out the taillights of his grandfather’s 1963 Chevrolet Impala during…

  • S.B. voters approve budget, elect incumbents, teenager

    Voter turnout increases by 5 percent from 2008 BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer  S.B. voters approve budget, elect incumbents, teenager BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer     SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Voters recently approved the district’s school budget and elected two incumbents and a high school student to the Board of Education.     The high vote-getter was…

  • School budgets in No. & So. Brunswick pass

    N.B. voters approve 1.9 tax point increase by about 500 votes BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The school budget in North Brunswick passed for the first time in five years — by roughly 500 votes — during elections held April 21. Michael Dawson The budget presented a total tax increase of 1.9 tax points, or…

  • Linwood Middle School celebrates Earth Day

    Students learn about water quality, rain forest preservation BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick celebrated Earth Day with several activities last week. JENNIFER AMATO Students in Denise Petraco’s class at Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick decorated their classroom to represent the rain forest during the school’s Earth Day activities…

  • Holocaust survivor speaks of concentration camps

    Linwood Middle School honors persecution victims BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — “Remember to take action, and remember to remember.” The closing remarks of Linwood Middle School’s Holocaust Remembrance Evening April 23 summed up the theme of the night. Students and teachers from Linwood, along with township officials, recognized the commemoration of the…

  • Dance, dance

    The South Brunswick High School Dance Team has completed its most successful season. The girls Black and Gold teams were the 2009 N.J. State Champions in both varsity jazz and pom, as well as junior varsity jazz and pom for the first time ever, at the New Jersey Dance State Championship March 15 at Ramapo…

  • Two local residents are ‘cereal’ helpers

    Featured on special-edition Cheerios boxes for helping to fight hunger BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Two local residents are featured on a special edition Cheerios box available at ShopRite supermarket stores because of their efforts in helping to fight hunger. Left: Dan Galligan (far right), of Old Bridge, is one of the heroes featured on…

  • Residents voice concerns over waste transfer station

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — Residents and officials from New and North Brunswick expressed their displeasure with a proposed waste transfer station in New Brunswick to Richard Hills, head of the Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management, during a meeting in New Brunswick April 22. The New Brunswick Planning Board had…