Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Body of N.B. employee found behind Dumpster

    NEW BRUNSWICK – The body of an employee of Panera Bread in North Brunswick was found onMonday behind a Dumpster in New Brunswick. According to a press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, at approximately 9:44 a.m. the New Brunswick Police Department was notified of a body on the ground outside of 100 Memorial…

  • Arrests made in copper thefts

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Township police, along with the New Jersey State Police, have arrested three men in connection with numerous copper thefts from cell phone towers throughout the state, according to a statement made by Police Detective James Ryan. Andreas Gardner, 21, of Jamesburg, and Jorge Rasteiro, 24, of Elizabeth,…

  • Possible suicide on Rt. 1 in N.B.

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A man whose body was found on April 2 allegedly committed suicide. According to North Brunswick Police Lt. Roger Reinson, a Central JerseyWaste garbage truck was driving along Route 1 north just past College Farm Road but prior to Ryders Lane around 6:35 a.m. when a driver…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Anita Pao, of Pennsylvania, leads Christina Shu (l), of Lawrenceville, and the rest of the dancers in the Tea Harvest folk dance at the Chinese-American Yuan Yuan Group’s production of “Let’s Welcome the Spring” at the South Brunswick Senior Center on March 27.

  • Farmers don’t want to sacrifice green for green

    Oppose eliminating the New Jersey Department of Agriculture BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Alan Habiak just loves farming. It’s in his blood and the “smell in the air” really gets to him. That’s why he and other farmers in the area oppose the abolishment of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA), which has been…

  • NBTHS adds some PEP to its curriculum

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The township high school has implemented the Teen Prevention Education Program into its available curriculum for seniors. Teen PEP is part of the Senior Leadership program that includes health and physical education requirements and the Transition Project that pairs seniors with incoming freshmen. Both the Transition Project…

  • President Bush salutes credit-counseling agencies

    Visit to Freehold Twp. highlights Hope Now national program FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – President George W. Bush came to Freehold Township onMarch 28 to visit Novadebt, a credit-counseling agency that is working with consumers who have run into mortgage payments that they no longer can afford. Bush pitched Hope Now, a program made up of 10…

  • Protesters urge Bush to end war, invest in America

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Hundreds of protesters chanted, "Bring the troops home, end the war now" as President George W. Bush touched down in Freehold aboard Marine One last week. Local individuals and families joined New Jersey Citizen Action (NJCA), Democracy For America, the Coalition For Peace Action, the Solidarity Singers and Democratic Congressman…

  • Career in film industry provides script for book

    O.B. native has made a life of reinventing her roles in movie biz BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Sharon Badal OLD BRIDGE – Long before Sharon Badal’s filmmaking fantasies became a reality, their celluloid seeds were planted in Old Bridge. “When I was 14, my dad opened a movie theater in town called Fairway Cinema,…