Category: Sentinel-NBS News

  • Flu shot fever continues with lottery drawings

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — County officials conducted a drawing on Tuesday to randomly select who will get flu shots this season. The Middlesex County Health Department held a lottery for the 4,490 influenza vaccinations they have available for individuals ages 65 and over at 10 a.m. in…

  • NJ Rep founders partners in life and in art

    BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Gabor and SuzAnne Barabas are surrounded by theater memorabilia in the lobby of New Jersey Repertory Theatre, which they founded in Long Branch. SuzAnne and Gabor Barabas, founders of the NJ Repertory Co. in Long Branch, met at a Halloween party when they were teenagers,…

  • Alarm alerts police to Shiseido Corp. break-in

    Incident may be related to Sayreville cosmetics warehouse burglary BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The hole-in-the-wall bandits have struck again. South Brunswick police believe thieves, wanted in cosmetic warehouse burglaries, hit the Shiseido Corp. on Docks Corner Road early Sunday morning. According to a police press release, officers…

  • Project grants to fund environmental study

    Linwood Middle School students will join high schoolers on project BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — Good things keep happening at Linwood Middle School. Since September, the middle school has earned county, state and national recognition. Principal Pete Clark said the most recent buzz is about two special project…

  • Operation Cookie no half-baked idea

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer It’s a tradition nearly a half-century old.In their own way of helping veterans at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Hospital at Menlo Park, Edison, the East Brunswick Woman’s Club has again baked and delivered hundreds of cookies and candy items. The annual baking event, called Operation…

  • Resident dies in trailer fire

    Responders unable to gain entry to home of disabled veteran BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A raging fire took the life of a South Brunswick resident early last Thursday afternoon. The body of Wallace Whiting Sr., 68, was found after firefighters extinguished the blaze that ravaged his mobile…

  • Township gets half of aid requested from state

    Council tabled budget adoption in lieu of application outcome BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The state denied the township’s application for a half-million dollars in extraordinary aid for this year’s budget. The Township Council could adopt its $36.3 million budget as soon as Monday night, but it will…

  • Police seek robbery suspects

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — An armed robber reportedly got away with $6,000 cash from the Oaktree Apartment Rental Office last week. A 31-year-old township woman working in the Oaktree Drive office reported the robbery, during which two men wearing black nylon stockings over their faces held her…

  • Magazine contribution a ‘Highlight’ for 1st-grader

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A 6-year-old township girl has become part of a children’s classic. “Highlights for Children,” a magazine found in millions of waiting rooms, school rooms and homes across the globe, published a cartoon caption by Parsons Elementary School first-grader Erica Burns in its November…