Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Mayors cook up some friendly competition

    N.B. represented in third annual Mayors Healthy Cook-off BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Seven mayors from across the state left state Sen. Joseph F. Vitale (D- 19th District), former New York Giants wide receiver Stephen Baker, also known as “the Touchdown Maker,” and WCTC radio’s The Restaurant Guys – Mark Pascal and Francis Schott –…

  • A day to honor service, remember sacrifice

    Vets who served country honored at Vietnam Veterans’Memorial BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Peter Van Rixoort never met his father, but all of his life he has known just how special his father’s sacrifice for World War II really was. Staff Sgt. John Van Rixoort Van Rixoort’s father, Staff Sgt. John Van Rixoort, who…

  • Clowning around

    PHOTOS BY MATT DENTON Top left: The Amazing Gustavo performs his acrobatic feats on the Gyroscope at the Zerbini Family Circus, held at Crossroads South Middle School in South Brunswick on Sunday. Bottom left: Larry the Clown gets the crowd going. Above: Miss Dahlila performs her aerial ballet. The circus was sponsored by the South…

  • Arrest made in credit card theft and fraud

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK- A resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., was arrested and charged on May 13 with stealing credit cards from a locker in the New York Sports Club (NYSC) on Route 1 in January. On Jan. 9, Vincent Molinari, 44, stole three credit cards from a man’s locker at the club, according to police. The cards…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Members of the North Brunswick Junior Police Academy place a wreath, which was donated by Linwood Middle School, at the police memorial during the township’s commemoration of National Police Week on May 15. Story, page 16.

  • S.B. school budget reduced by $1 million

    Capital projects cut; salary increases, new asst. principal post left alone BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer The South Brunswick Board of Education approved a list of reductions that would decrease the budget by $1,026,617, as recommended by the Township Council. The total tax levy certified by the municipal government is now $93,923,003. Most of the…

  • Artist tries to paint an artistic future for her class

    Lakshmi Durga displayed her work in April; students’work inMay BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer There is an old adage that people should look at the world through the eyes of a child. JENNIFER AMATO Heera Durga stands with her painting about pollution, based on a story her mother, North Brunswick April Artist of the Month…

  • BOE agrees to $1 million cut from N.B. budget

    But residents feel reduction is too severe, considering close vote BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The Township Council and Board of Education have agreed to cut $1 million from the 2008- 2009 defeated school budget. However, residents think the reduction is a bit extreme. On April 15, the $80.9 million total operating…

  • Recess task force bill advances in N.J. Senate

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer The Senate Education Committee on May 5 amended bill A-467, also known as S-226, which seeks to establish a task force that would be charged with studying the potential benefits of student recess and making recommendations on the advisability of mandatory recess in New Jersey school districts. The amendment adds…