Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • N.B. resident sentenced for extorting payments

    Former N. B. clerk gets five months in halfway house and house arrest BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEWARK – A North Brunswick resident who was employed as a supervisory clerk for the city of New Brunswick was sentenced to five months in a halfway house and five months of house arrest for extorting corrupt…

  • ‘The Golden Compass’ lacks direction

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Movie Critic New Line Cinema release Di rected by: Chris Weitz Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ian McKellen Running time: 113 minutes Classified: PG-13 ‘The Golden Compass,” from which the film directed by Chris Weitz derives its name, is a mystical device with the ability to answer any question…

  • Center plays around with kids’ entertainment

    Uptown Playaround opens in Kendall Park for playtime, birthday parties BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer CHRIS MURINO Phoenix Akinlawon pushes buttons and makes music as Uptown Playaround employee Pearl Bernstein assists her at the new children’s facility. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Little Phoenix is having a ball. She’s running around, dancing and going down slides while…

  • Tips for a safe and happy holiday season

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The North Brunswick Police and Fire Departments are advising residents on how to stay safe during the holiday season with suggestions on how to protect themselves and their homes. Decorations: – Choose flame-retardant, noncombustible and nonconductive decorations. – All lights should be UL approved. – Indoor lights…

  • Postmasters: Send military mail out early this season

    The United States Postal Service expects to handle more than 20 million pounds of military mail this holiday season. New Jersey postal officials are therefore encouraging the public to send packages and letters early to servicemen and servicewomen overseas, including Iraq and Afghanistan, to make sure that shipments reach their destination in time for the…

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    DANIEL HULSHIZER staff Elijah Teague, 7, of Flemington, gets a lesson on the meaning of the dreidel as Rabbi Levi Azimov and the Chabad of South Brunswick delivered holiday presents to patients at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick on Dec. 6.

  • Candle starts house fire on Hickory Lane

    Family safe but damage necessitates house to be torn down BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Atwo-story, single-family Colonial house on Hickory Lane in North Brunswick must be demolished after a house fire damaged the structure on Sunday morning. DANIEL HULSHIZER staff A house at 10 Hickory Lane in North Brunswick suffered extensive fire damage early…

  • Fundraiser bottles up a grape time in S.B.

    Library wine tasting on Dec. 6 will go toward improvements and cafe BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY DANIEL HULSHIZER staff From the top: Jayne Daube, of South Brunswick, looks at bottles of wine on display at a wine-tasting fundraiser for the South Brunswick Public Library Foundation at the South Brunswick Miele offices on…

  • Chabad brings light to Route 1 with menorah

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer CHRIS MURINO Sen.-elect Bill Baroni and Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, of the Chabad of North & South Brunswick, appear at the annual South Brunswick Menorah Lighting ceremony at the Monmouth Mobile Home Park in Monmouth Junction on Monday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Sen.-elect Bill Baroni, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, Police Chief Ray Hayducka,…