Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Fifth-graders earn Nov. student-athlete honors

    Brianna Pastrick, 9, and Joseph Rosenberg, 10, excel in sports and class BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer “I like playing for the township team because they teach us to have fun and not to care about winning or losing, but how you improve at playing the game.” — Brianna Pastrick NORTH…

  • Scenes of 2004 Middlesex County

    Clockwise from top — John Yanchurak, 6, of North Brunswick, plays in a fire engine during National Night Out; General Washington at a re-enactment in Edison in September; JFK-Iselin defense players in a January game with Metuchen; a crowd watches fireworks over Edison’s Lake Pappaianni; a participant in Woodbridge High School Relay for Life has…

  • Woman robbed at doorstep

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Masked men robbed a township woman on her own doorstep Saturday evening. A 40-year-old Goodwin Drive resident returning home from work at 5:40 p.m. was attempting to unlock her front door when two men approached her from behind and stole her pocketbook, according…

  • Milltown toddler, 2, is beating the odds

    Family, transplant organization reach out for help from public BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Dominic Tripaldi of Milltown received two organ transplants earlier this year at the age of 17 months. A campaign is in the works to help the family with surgical and related expenses. MILLTOWN — When Dominic Tripaldi…

  • Sleeping man rescued from burning Rt. 1 home

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police rescued a sleeping man from his burning township home. Officers John Penney and John Niper arrived at the scene on Route 1 north Thursday evening after residents reported a fire in their home. Flames and smoke were visible from a second-floor window…

  • Photo

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff A portrait of Richard VonDeesten, a South Brunswick teen who perished in a car accident, lies on the grass a few feet from the site of the fatal crash.

  • Police: Teen attempted robbery near crash scene

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police hand their hands full last Thursday evening. As police investigated a motor vehicle accident on Route 522, a knife-welding man attempted to rob the Dollar Store in the K&A shopping center, only feet away from crash site. The first incident began at…

  • So. Brunswick reacts to fatal crash

    Police believe driver purposely crashed his car into pole BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Police officers investigate the site where a teenager perished in a car accident in South Brunswick. A car crash has left one South Brunswick teen dead and another charged with his death in what…

  • Freeholders talk to state about MOM train line

    Ocean and Monmouth County officials say they will continue to closely monitor the progress of NJ Transit as it moves toward completing studies on the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) rail line. And, officials said they will reach out to congressional leaders to actively seek the funding that will keep this project moving forward. According to a…