Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Hellrazors on wheels

    Like ‘Fight Club’ for girls, roller derby debuts at S.B. rink BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer PHOTOSBY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above, the Lehigh Valley Hissy Fits’ Erin Gobraless (Theresa Mitchell, l) and Eva Brawn (Lauren Petix) prepare to skate against the home team, Hub City Hellrazors, at the roller derby match held…

  • Annual N.B. dance in step with loved ones’ memories

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Arianna Pappas leads the square dancing routine during the seventh annual Winter Wonderland Dance, organized by her uncle, Paul Pappas. The senior event was held Friday at the North Brunswick Township High School. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Anna Romek loves to cook…

  • Longtime N.B. police promoted to captains

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Veteran police officers Dan Daino and Michael Misurell were recently promoted to the position of acting captains. The two former lieutenants, along with current Police Director Ken McCormick and Police Lt. Jim Curry, went through the same police academy and began patrolling just…

  • Metropark to get $30 million makeover

    NJ Transit to replace high-level platforms and add amenities by 2010 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer NJ Transit will spend $29.8 million to make much-needed improvements to the Metropark Station in Iselin, which is NJ Transit’s busiest outlying rail station. Construction will begin early this year, and it expects to be…

  • Making the grade is harder at SBHS

    District wants to put grading system on equal footing with others BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer The South Brunswick School District administration is attempting to fix what it sees as an inequity between the township and other comparable communities regarding its grading system for high school students. The recommended changes were…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Members of the National Art Honor Society from North Brunswick Township High School work on a mural in the township library Jan. 4 as part of a renovation project in anticipation of the facility’s 40th anniversary.

  • Local mayors say they’ll officiate civil unions

    Officials must choose: Do straight and gay ceremonies, or do none BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Same-sex partners in New Jersey will be free to enter civil unions with one another as of Feb. 19. Several local officials say they look forward to presiding over the ceremonies. Middlesex County…

  • To taxman, civil unions end at the New Jersey border

    Same-sex couples may not receive the same rights at federal level BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer While the civil union bill has given same-sex couples a plethora of additional rights and responsibilities, its effects stop short at the federal level, according to legal and financial experts. Felice T. Londa, an attorney…

  • Polos, Pulomena begin new terms as freeholders

    Crabiel gets nod for 12th consecutive year as director BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer John Pulomena and H. James Polos were sworn in as Middlesex County freeholders and David B. Crabiel resumed the position of board director for the 12th consecutive year during a reorganizational meeting held at the Middlesex County…