Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Off-duty policeman assaulted

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A 20-year-old Hamiltonmanwas chargedwith aggravated assault after he attacked an off-duty Woodbridge police officer with a knife on Route 130 on Feb. 20, police said. The incident began around 10:30 p.m. Suspect Timothy Krisza and Officer Keith Blackston, 41, were driving south on Route 130.Krisza, believing Blackston…

  • Feeling “snow” good

    JEFF GRANIT staff Monica Blum and Becky Hartman, of South Brunswick, have to turn their heads as snow hits them in the face as they enjoy the snow at Thompson Park in Jamesburg on Feb. 22.

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    The newly elected officers of the Italian American Social Club of North Brunswick were recently installed at a ceremony conducted by the Rev. Robert Santa Barbara of St. Mary of Mount Virgin Church in New Brunswick.

  • Recycling worms its way into local school

    Students learn about vermicomposting BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Normally, if a worm is found in the lunchroom, all hysteria breaks loose and the Department of Health is called in for an inspection. ERIC SUCAR staff A group of students combs through a barrel of red worm castings during a vermicomposting project at Parsons Elementary…

  • S.B. elementary school principal to assume new position in district

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Richard Chromey, the principal of Constable Elementary School in Kendall Park, will be leaving his post in April to take up some new duties for the district. Chromey will now serve as the new director of program assessment and data management for the South Brunswick schools. “I…

  • County makes bid to purchase historic farm

    Residents hope Van Dyke property will be preserved and not used for houses BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Middlesex County officials have made an offer to William Pulda to purchase the historic Van Dyke farm on Davidson Mill Road in South Brunswick, which has its slave quarters still intact and may be the burial site…

  • Danger lurks as youths head on to the Internet

    Detective offers tips to parents to head off potential problems BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer With the click of a computer mouse, people in other parts of the state, country or the world can steal, threaten and lure people into dangerous and sometimes even fatal situations. Children and teenagers very often fall victim to online…

  • Beef recalled from local Brunswick schools

    North Brunswick is clear; South Brunswick has disposed of the meat BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The North and South Brunswick school districts are part of a recall of beef products by the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. of Chino, Calif. According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 143 million pounds of…

  • Units for seniors approved

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK- Anew senior housing development that will be built on Route 1 north near Route 522 was approved by the Planning Board on Feb. 20. The houses, built by Matzel & Mumford (M&M), will look more like mansions than apartment complexes. There are 16 individual units and three affordable…