Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Annual car show in N.B. marks 15th year

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The annual Cops & Rodders car show will celebrate its 15th year this month. North Brunswick Police Officer Joseph Grasso, whose father, Senior Patrolman Michael Grasso Jr., initiated the show, and Patrolman David Varga have been organizing the car show, which benefits the general fund of the…

  • S.B.P.D. accepts donation from local businessman

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A local businessman recently donated $1,500 to support the township police department. South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond Hayducka accepted the donation from David Nappa, president of the Dayton Toyota car dealership on Route 130, at police headquarters March 26. South Brunswick police will utilize the donation to…

  • Producing produce

    The Kingston Farm Market, Route 27, will celebrate its grand reopening April 23. Now in its fifth season, the market provides an array of fresh produce and homemade goods, including potted and cut spring flowers, homemade pies, fresh produce, local farm fresh eggs and butter, in-store homemade peanut butter, a full line of Italian specialty…

  • Teens make drugs and alcohol seem uncool

    NBTHS students mentor middle schoolers using ‘Heroes & Cool Kids’ training BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A group of seniors at North Brunswick Township High School are proving that they can be heroes to middle school students. As part of the “Heroes & Cool Kids” program, 60 teens from the high school…

  • Photographers recognized in state press assoc. contest

    Greater Media Newspapers photographers won three awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2008. Granit, General News, first place The newspaper group, based in Freehold, N.J., publishes 12 weeklies, serving Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties. Jeff Granit and Eric Sucar were among the journalists honored at the NJPA awards banquet April…

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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.

  • 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…

  • ‘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,…

  • S. Bruns. officials may approve red-light cameras

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond Hayducka recently addressed some of the concerns local officials voiced about installing cameras at the intersection of Henderson Road and Route 1. JEFF GRANIT staff The state recently gave South Brunswick permission to install cameras at the intersection of Henderson Road and Route 1. The…