Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Man has heart incident, strikes building with car

    NORTH BRUNSWICK — A 63-yearold township man died after having a heartrelated incident that led to a motor vehicle crash last week. Joseph Lagrasta was on his way to work the morning of Feb. 18 when police believe he had some type of heart ailment, according to North Brunswick police Lt. Roger Reinson. Lagrasta lost…

  • S.B. officials break ground on $4.9M MVC facility

    E.B. branch will move to Dayton upon completion BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission building project should be completed in the Dayton section of South Brunswick by the end of the year. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Officials recently broke ground on a site where a new $4.9 million facility for the…

  • Indoor gardening

    CHRIS KELLY staff North Brunswick’s Dominick Mondi moves sand away for what will look like a frozen pond on a display for the seventh annual N.J. Flower and Garden Show at the N.J. Expo Center, Edison, held Feb. 10.

  • S.B. Geography Bee winners await state results

    BY BETH EISEN Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — National Geographic Bee school winners Ellie Beaudry, a sixth-grader at Crossroads North Middle School, and Matthew Juro, a seventh grader at Crossroads South Middle School, are awaiting results from a written test to advance to the state competition. Each social studies class in South Brunswick’s two middle…

  • NBTHS welcomes new assistant principal

    Donna Johnson will officially begin July 1 Donna Johnson NORTH BRUNSWICK — North Brunswick Township High School (NBTHS) is welcoming Donna Johnson as its new assistant principal and supervisor of the Social Studies Department. Johnson has been the principal of Freehold Learning Center Elementary School in Freehold Borough for the past two years. Prior to…

  • N.B. uses grant money for GREAT causes

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The township Police Department and school district are working GREAT together to educate students about gang-related issues, drug and alcohol abuse, and community relations. GREAT, or Gang Resistance Education and Training, is a program funded through the federal Bureau of Justice. Started in 1991 in Arizona, the…

  • Carrying the torch

    Carter embraces her family’s heritage in country music BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer She grew up the child of country music royalty, performed often with her mother and stepfather, June Carter and Johnny Cash, and built her own successful career over 30 years as a solo artist. Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter Cash and…

  • Keeping with the flow

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff The North Brunswick Senior Center has started a new Thursday morning tai chi program. Dorothy Yang (photo at left) volunteers her time teaching the seniors.

  • Stop, drop & roll

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: Rich Kosmoski, a fire instructor from the Middlesex County Fire Academy, assists Sara Salluce with the stop-drop-and-roll technique during a fire safety demonstration held at Kiddie Academy of North Brunswick Feb. 19. Below: Fire instructor Frank Dellapietro watches a shirt catch fire inside of a special fire trailer.