Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • 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,…

  • Event will benefit teen who had heart transplant

    EAST BRUNSWICK- There are still time slots available for the Ryan Miller Heart Foundation soccer-a-thon, set for April 5 at 5 p.m. at Dideriksen Park and Heavenly Farms, sponsored by the East Brunswick Soccer Club (EBSC). Travel and recreation teams are encouraged to participate. All proceeds will go to the Ryan Miller Heart Foundation. Ryan,…

  • Garden State Film Festival rolls out the red carpet

    The sixth annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) showcasing film, video and animated works by independent filmmakers, will roll out the red carpet April 4-6 in Asbury Park. This year’s honorees include novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Screenplay Writing. Chris Costello, daughter of Hollywood legend Lou…

  • Expansion planned for Thomas Edison museum

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Conceptual plans for the a large-scale expansion to the Menlo Park Museum, which seeks to educate the public about the work and impact of Thomas Alva Edison, are set to be unveiled today. The project seeks to add an educational facility to the grounds that could be from 5,400 to…

  • Havens lets his heart, and audience, guide him

    Singer/guitarist will perform Saturday atMarasco Center BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Richie Havens MONROE – Seeing Richie Havens in concert is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. From before the time when he played an epiclength opening at Woodstock back in 1969 until now, the soulful-voiced guitarist…

  • S.B. teacher to demonstrate watercolor painting techniques

    Judi Gilden, a resident of Marlboro who teaches at the Community School in South Brunswick, will demonstrate her watercolor techniques at the Monmouth Festival of the Arts 2008 in Tinton Falls on April 9 at 10 a.m. “Shells” The water media artist will present “Slipping and Sliding on Illustration Board: An Interactive Watercolor Demonstration with…

  • The Garden State becomes the giving state

    Linwood Middle School, others, send info to a student doing N.J. project BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Kayla Figueroa, with her teacher Brian Gilmore, from Rhode Island, holds the Rutgers basketball tickets sent to her by a class at Linwood Middle School for a project she did on New Jersey. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Beach shells.…