Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Motorcyclist suffers minor injuries

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – A man suffered only minor injuries when his motorcycle slipped out from under him last week. On June 25 at around 7:30 a.m., Darrell Hearns, 29, of Elizabeth, was driving southbound on Route 1 when he lost control of his motorcycle near Fashion Plaza, according to Police Lt. Roger Reinson. Police believe…

  • Graduation 2008

    Christina Ha looks into the stands to her friends and family during the 2008 South Brunswick High School commencement exercise, held at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton on June 23. CHRIS KELLY STAFF

  • S.B. adopts $49.5M budget

    GOP in town claims too much surplus being used BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer T he South Brunswick Township Council unanimously approved the $49.5 millionmunicipal budget at its meeting on June 24. The tax rate will be 62.5 cents per $100 assessed value, as it was last year. Overall spending did increase from last year’s…

  • Hungry for relief

    Worldwide food crisis hits home; higher prices compound gas costs BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Steve Jacobson, owner of the Amboy Deli in Metuchen, strikes an upbeat and genial demeanor when talking about his business over the phone. But there is a hint of frustration as well, a frustration shared by people all over the…

  • Hidden-Gems in the park

    Top to bottom: Sundari Nagarajan, of South Brunswick, snaps her fingers to the beat of Hidden-Gems as they performed Bollywood music as part of the Summer Outdoor Concert Series at Beech Woods Park in South Brunswick, on Friday. Rhea Pallaith, 2, of North Brunswick, dances by the side of her mom, Seena, and dad, Sharad.…

  • N.B. soldier fundraises for Marine Corps scholarship

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – An Iraq veteran who will be deployed again in 2009 is currently fundraising in support of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Maj. Christopher Ieva, 34, a 1991 graduate of the North Brunswick Township High School, is seeking donations to the foundation, which helps the children of fallen,…

  • Accident reported on NJ Turnpike

    STEVEN M. BARON The New Jersey State Police and ambulance crews responded to a bus accident on the New Jersey Turnpike, southbound side, near the Davidson Mill Road overpass in South Brunswick on Saturday morning. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – An Academy bus going southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike near Interchange 8A in South Brunswick was…

  • Fun and games

    Above: The husband and wife daredevil team of Henry and Cina Lemoine, of Roanoke, Va., ride a motorcycle over a high-wire at the 11th annual North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival, held last week on the grounds adjacent to DeVry University on Route 1. The annual event raises money to support all the recreational sports organizations…

  • Marlboro boy recovering from ‘miracle’ operation

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – Marc Weinstein has received the miracle that more than 4,000 people around the country had been hoping for him to receive. Marc, 10, is back home with his father, Barry, mother, Cindy, and brother, Robby, 5, after receiving a life-saving peripheral blood stem cell transplant in April. Marc…