Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Indoor paintball arena opens in Spotswood

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY DANIEL HULSHIZER staff Clockwise from top: Walter Price, 27, of Chester, fires away from behind an inflatable bunker during a match at All Star Paintball Arena, which opened recently on American Way in Spotswood. David Astorita, 16, of Jackson, takes aim at an opponent. Team members run for…

  • Customers gawk at hawk in Home Depot

    Bird rescued on Dec. 26 after flying around S.B. store for three days BYCHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Visitors to the Home Depot on Route 1 last week had an unexpected, high-flying entertainer to gawk at in the form of a Cooper’s Hawk. The female hawk, 20 inches long with a 3-foot wingspan,…

  • McCormick retires as director of NBPD

    Is named assistant to mayor for six months BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Former Police Director Kenneth McCormick NORTH BRUNSWICK – Police Director Kenneth McCormick has retired from the department after 25 years of service, and will now be the assistant to the mayor for six months. McCormick joined the department in 1982 because of…

  • N.B. swears in officials at reorganization meeting

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Councilwoman Rhonda Lyles NORTH BRUNSWICK – The two female members of the township Council were named as president and vice president during the reorganization meeting on Tuesday. Cathy Nicola, who was re-elected to her second term in November and was sworn in again on New Year’s Day, was nominated as…

  • Bloopers

    Hope you’ll excuse our ‘fowl’ language ADELE YOUNG We like to start the new year by looking back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the previous year. One of our most colorful characters in recent years…

  • 2007: The year in photos

    JEFF GRANIT staff Clockwise from top left: Nina Malagi’s dress blows in the wind as she reaches for daughter Rohini at the India Independence Day in North Brunswick, Aug. 15. A sunrise along the Jersey shore in August. A cyclist races through the course of the Men’s Elite Race at the 2007 Verge Mid-Atlantic Championship…

  • Teens want twp. to be on board with skate park

    No. Bruns. students present 500-signature petition to Twp. Council BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – After what they said were a series of arrests for trespassing, teenagers in town are requesting the township build a new park designed for skateboarding, rollerblading, biking and scooters. At the Township Council meeting on Dec. 17, parent…

  • Assemblymen work toward bill for soldiers

    Newmeasure guarantees jobs tomilitary personnel after return fromservice BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer TRENTON- TheAssembly passed legislation last week that is designed to protect enlistedmilitary personnel fromlosing employment when called to serve in the military during a time of war or domestic emergency. “While American servicemen and women work hard every day to protect us,…

  • S.B. resident dies in car accident

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A township woman and her daughter, from Plainsboro, were killed in a car accident in North Carolina on Dec. 8. Catherine Salter, 75, and Gail Salter, 50, died at the scene. The accident occurred at about 6:50 a.m. on Interstate 95, near Benson, N.C. Salter began to back up northbound on a…