Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Senior Club to offer trips, free events in January

    The South Brunswick Senior Club will sponsor a trip to Atlantic City during January. A trip to Key West, Fla., and Nassau, Bahamas, will be March 23-31. Cost will be less than $1,000 and includes bus transportation, accommodations, five-day cruise, 18 meals, champagne and various activities. Trips depart Woodlot Park, New Road, Kendall Park section…

  • Moment of silence

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Bill Giman, along with Julianna Aurtuk, 16, and Ciara Bhattacharyya, 17, co-secretaries of the South Brunswick Commission on Women, take a moment for reflection at the ceremony of hope for victims and survivors of domestic violence in South Brunswick on Sunday.

  • Newspapers announce 2nd Greater Women Award

    Nominations of outstanding women are being sought from Monmouth, Middlesex and northern Ocean counties. The Greater Women of Central New Jersey Award celebrates women who triumph despite the challenges and make a true difference through their efforts. Women may be nominated for one of three categories: business, health care or the nonprofit sector. Nominees may…

  • No. Brunswick workers recognized for service

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — They work hard for their money so you better treat them right. The township honored eight employees at a service awards luncheon and holiday party at the municipal building on Thursday. At the luncheon, Brian Hoiberg, Barbara Ann Avelino and Jonathan Kelly were…

  • Helping needy through works of faith

    Group brings food, toys to families BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer CHRIS GAETANO A volunteer with the Food Pantry at Saint Augustine Roman Catholic Church in South Brunswick makes sure that everything is in order before the packages are delivered. John Bollman, of South Brunswick, approached the door to an apartment…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN One-year-old twins Luke and Joely O’Brian enjoy sitting with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the youth holiday party sponsored by the South Brunswick Fraternal Order of Police and Policeman’s Benevolent Association in South Brunswick Sunday afternoon.