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.

  • N.B. station viable with or without MOM line

    Town still moving toward rail line and transit village on Rt. 1 north BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The former Johnson & Johnson property, on Route 1, lies between train tracks on the left and Route 1 on the right. NORTH BRUNSWICK – In the past year since community workshops were held to discuss redeveloping…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff A CPR marathon was held Saturday in which participants 10 years and older learned how to save a person’s life. The marathon was held at St. Augustine Canterbury School in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick.

  • Fundraiser is music to the library staff’s ears

    NBTHS student to hold benefit performance on Sunday BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – A township high school sophomore will add some rhythm to the library with a fundraiser Sunday. Rishi Tirumala decided he wanted to contribute to the library in some fashion because of the important role it plays in his life,…

  • MOM train line still a possibility

    Monmouth Junction rail line to be studied despite Corzine’s comments BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer New Jersey Transit has confirmed that it will complete the draft environmental impact study (DEIS) for the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) rail line, even though Gov. Jon Corzine asserted last week that the line would not run through Middlesex. “All three alignments…

  • CD-ROM is the result of a seven-year ‘Journey’

    Music, photos, interviews show African-American churches and cemeteries BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Lawrence Walker SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Lawrence Walker has clearly done a lot of work. Seven years of work, to be exact. Seven years of interviewing, filming, capturing photographs and researching slavery and the underground railroad. Now he will be releasing the tangible…

  • Fostering love for those who are not their own

    Foster parents tell their stories of opening their hearts and homes BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Lilliam and Gary Costa, of North Brunswick, are both on their second marriages. Lilliam has two children fromher firstmarriage:Michael Jr., 16, and Michaela, 13. Gary has a daughter fromhis previous marriage: Harleigh, 12. Although they looked into in vitro…