Category: Sentinel-NBS News
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Vote for new state slogan until Jan. 1
Area residents have their favorites among the five finalists BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer The proposed new state slogan “We’ll Win You Over” didn’t win acting Gov. Richard Codey over when he said that the tagline possessed a negative connotation and reminded him of a girl who turned him down when…
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A Hands On experience with disaster, despair
N.B. resident spent Thanksgiving week aiding Katrina victims BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Top photo, Tierney Verderami helps two young children in Biloxi, Miss., over Thanksgiving break as part of a volunteer effort with two friends and Hands On USA. Bottom left, Verderami assists a student as a substitute teacher at…
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No. Brunswick teens dig helping their elders
More volunteers sought for snow-shoveling duties at senior residences BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — There is snow excuse for not helping township senior citizens this season. The Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Service is seeking volunteers to help seniors with snow removal during potential snowstorms in the…
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Going boldly where no hygienist has gone before
South Brunswick woman offers skills to residents of small African island BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Above, Palma D’Angelo poses with two of her patients in the African island of Brava. At left, D’Angelo works on a patient in her Dayton office. Dental hygienist Palma D’Angelo encountered wind, rain and a…
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Arrest made in car burglaries
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A township man was arrested and charged with four counts of burglary, four counts of theft of movable property and giving false information to police, stemming from five burglaries at Liberty Bell Court and Wood Acres Drive on Dec. 12. Police arrested and…
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Water heater apparent cause of Christmas fire
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Firefight-ers were dispatched to a Monmouth Junction home on Christmas morning to combat a blaze that was discovered in the early morning hours. Firefighters from the Monmouth Junction Fire Department, under the command of Chief Jim Shearer, were dispatched to a six-family townhome…
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No. Brunswick teens jailed on arson, burglary charges
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Two township residents were arrested on Dec. 20 in connection to several cases of vandalism within the township since November. Robert Rash and William Smith, both 18, of Keats Road, have been charged with 33 counts of burglary and defiant trespassing in connection…
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Woman robbed outside bank
NORTH BRUNSWICK — An employee of A.J. Wright on Milltown Road was the victim of a strong-arm robbery on Dec. 21 as she went to make a bank deposit at 9:42 a.m. According to North Brunswick Police Lt. Roger Reinson, a 6-foot, approximately 200-pound black male with a black jacket, blue jeans and a goatee…
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Ceremony brings ‘more light into the world’
About 50 celebrate start of Hanukkah at menorah lighting BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Rabbi Mendy Carlebach of the Chabad of South and North Brunswick prays before lighting the menorah in celebration of Hanukkah at the North Brunswick Municipal Building Tuesday. NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Chabad House of…
