Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • ‘Six Degrees’ reaches 360 degrees around the world

    NBTHS students donate clothing, supplies to India, Tanzania BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Two North Brunswick Township High School seniors are providing hope to students across the globe. Katy Golvala and Tiffany Hsueh began “Six Degrees of Hope” at the end of the last school year, and they are beginning again to…

  • N.B. firemen share history of Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer JENNIFER AMATO Jim Gourley (l-r), Ernest “Buzz” Boll, Charles Zaabadick, William Tallman, William “Chippy” Wright and George Long from North Brunswick Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 were honored at a recent Township Council meeting for serving over 50 years each. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Six members of North Brunswick Township Volunteer…

  • Police use checkpoints for DWI enforcement

    Program to run through end of prom and graduation season As high school celebrations get underway this spring, municipal and county law enforcement officers will be setting up driving while intoxicated checkpoints designed to ensure the safety of teenagers and others on the roads. The checkpoint program, financed with a $29,975 grant from the state…

  • N.B. council honors scholar award recipients

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Pamela Habib NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Township Council honored two Department of Parks & Recreation Scholar Athlete Artist award recipients for April at their public meeting April 7. Pamela Habib is a senior at North Brunswick Township High School. She is an honor roll student and member of the National…

  • Computers are the ‘type’ of communication seniors want

    NBTHS students to teach local seniors how to navigate PCs BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Students involved with the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter at North Brunswick Township High School are offering minicomputer classes to local senior citizens. JEFF GRANIT staff Truman Liu, a sophomore at North Brunswick Township High School, assists Junea…

  • Making a ‘racquet’

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Tony “The Pro” Esposito, of North Brunswick, returns a shot while playing paddleball at Bicentennial Park in East Brunswick on Sunday.

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Alexander James Soto (l) and Zachery Rowell, both of North Brunswick, enjoy a bike ride on a mild, sunny Sunday at North Brunswick’s Babbage Park.

  • ‘Colorful’ work of local artist included in Parkinson’s calendar

    Colorful” by Annie Konopka will be featured in the 2014 “Creativity and Parkinson’s Calendar.” A nnie Konopka of Kendall Park is one of 13 artists whose work was selected to appear in the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s 2014 “Creativity and Parkinson’s Calendar.” Her acrylic painting, “Colorful,” which depicts flowery bursts of light green, brown and lavender,…

  • Wounded suspect charged with shooting at police officers dies

    James Phillips Jr., of Newark, dies from complications from wounds One of the suspects accused of firing multiple shots at police officers during a pursuit through North Brunswick and New Brunswick on March 12 has died. James Phillips Jr., 59, of Newark, was pronounced dead April 4 at 10:45 p.m. in the hospital ward at…