Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Authors find N.J.’s story in its cemeteries

    Local man’s graveyard expertise to be featured on NJN’s ‘Hauntings’ BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer The Van Buskirk family vault, from 1854, is located in Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside. EAST BRUNSWICK – A cemetery can tell us more than just how people lived and died. Just what tombstones and burial grounds can tell us is what…

  • Keeping up with the Joneses, on the catwalk

    Five N.B. teachers take part in Jones New York charity fashion show BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer COURTESY OF STUART RAMSON Sonia Kim, an English as a Second Language teacher at Livingston Park Elementary School in North Brunswick, participated in a Jones New York Fashion show at the Menlo Park Mall on Oct. 13 in…

  • Helmetta gets first ladder truck, and free of charge

    South Brunswick firefighters donate truck after obtaining new one HELMETTA – Christmas came a couple months early for the borough’s fire department this year. The department received a 1982 American LaFrance 100-foot ladder truck, courtesy of South Brunswick Township Fire District No. 1, out of Kendall Park, according to Helmetta Fire Chief Gregory Bennett. Helmetta…

  • Indian festival spices up So. Brunswick nightlife

    Navratri celebration shares culture, tradition with new generations BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Nayan Jethra (r), of Franklin Park, and Niharika Dalal, New Brunswick, dance at the Navratri festival held at South Brunswick High School on Sunday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The local Indian community came to the township high school in full force this weekend…

  • Council rezones site of proposed industrial park

    Measure meant to block plan by warehouse developer Matrix BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Township Council has adopted an ordinance that will rezone properties along Route 130 and Friendship Road from an industrial to a residential area. About 65 members of the public packed the municipal building on Tuesday night hoping…

  • Girl Scouts reach out to young girls on violence

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Love shouldn’t hurt. This message against domestic violence is being posted around town by local Girl Scouts, who have hung ribbons and signs on major roadways and who are training for a program to teach younger children about the dangers of dating and bullying. Rachel Druker and…

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    ANDREW MILLER staff Cristina Salus of North Brunswick ties her shoelaces before participating in the ninth annual North Brunswick Care to Walk event, held Saturday at the township high school.

  • Experts disagree on timing of injuries

    Defense: child may have suffered fatal wounds earlier BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Although experts called by the prosecution and defense agree that 3- year-old Nikolas Chavez was killed by blunt force trauma injuries during a homicide in November 2005, they disagreed about the time those injuries were inflicted upon the boy. Nikolas Chavez Frederick…

  • Six Assembly hopefuls share views on issues

    Candidates seeking two seats available in Nov. 6 election BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Candidates for state Assembly in the 14th Legislative District weighed in on various issues during an Oct. 10 debate at Monroe Township High School. Adam Bushman Democratic incumbent Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and her running mate, Wayne DeAngelo; Republicans Tom Goodwin and…