Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Teenage girl trying to cope with osteosarcoma

    Fundraisers are being held to aid cost of experimental treatment BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Caiti Brown NORTHBRUNSWICK- At the age of 14,most girls are worrying about starting high school, when they can date and what the latest fashion trend is. For Caitlyn Brown, life was a little different. In the spring of 2004, Caiti…

  • Service employees say they were unfairly fired

    Employees of Dow Jones & Co. to picket next week BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Service employees who say they were unfairly let go from their jobs at the Dow Jones & Co. offices on Route 1 will picket in front of the offices on March 12. Forty employees who cleaned the…

  • ‘Freeheld’ wins for best documentary short award

    Pension-benefits battle wins Academy Award BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Filmmaker Cynthia Wade thought she was calm and collected before the winner of the Academy Awards “Best Documentary Short Subject” was announced on Feb. 25 “The filmmakers behind me were getting really nervous,” she said. “I said ‘We are all really good filmmakers and…

  • S.B. school district highlights the future

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTHBRUNSWICK- The Board of Education held its 3rd annual state of the district address on Feb. 28. “This is our education summit,” said Joanne Kerekes, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. “It’s our chance to climb to the top, scan what’s around you and report on what you see.” Kerekes…

  • Helping the community is in one man’s blood

    Martin Engel is honored for running successful blood drives each year BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Martin Engel SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Martin Engel has been donating blood for 60 years. On Feb. 25, the township blood bank he runs was awarded by America’s Blood Centers (ABC) as the most productive small blood drive in the…

  • Artist ‘faces’ her fans at meet and greet

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer “Faces on the Newshour” SOUTH BRUNSWICK – People were everywhere, even on the walls, at the South Brunswick Senior Center. Some people were lounging. Some people were following artist Edith Neimark around as she talked about her work. And some people were indeed on the walls, drawn by Edith herself,…

  • N.B. library welcomes new children’s librarian

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Anna Shifton NORTH BRUNSWICK – Anna Shifton has been named the new children’s librarian at the North Brunswick Library. Shifton, 31, of Hamilton Square, has a master’s degree in library science and previously worked in a public library and academic library in the children’s, young adult and adult sections. She…

  • Russian art, dance take the stage at Zimmerli

    COURTESY OF ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM Leon Bakst’s costume design for “Old Man in Yellow,” from Le Martine de Saint Sebastian, 1922, is on display as part of “Art for the Dance: Russian Costume and Stage Design From the Riabov Collection,” at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. NEW BRUNSWICK – Two ongoing exhibitions spotlight…

  • Donorschoose.org helps make projects a reality

    Teachers can go online to find funding sources for special initiatives BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Acquiring funds for the extra projects that make a student’s school life richer is possible if you know where to go. Donorschoose.org is helping to make many teachers more productive in the classroom. Manalapan native Lauren Siciliano is…