Category: Independent Opinion

  • Scholarships available for visual arts students

    Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts has announced that beginning next fall, all incoming visual arts graduate students will receive scholarships equivalent to full out-of-state tuition in the first year and full in-state tuition for the second year of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. The scholarships reflect the school’s belief that…

  • Local college student organizes global event in one month

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — A young man from North Brunswick organized a competition that has a global impact. Umair Masood, a sophomore at Rutgers University, served as campus director for the seventh annual Hult Prize competition at Rutgers on Dec. 5, when 10 teams competed to solve former President Bill Clinton’s…

  • Carl O.E. Bosenberg

    Carl O.E. Bosenberg, 96, died Dec. 6 at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Piscataway. Born Sept. 29, 1919, in Jugenheim, Germany, he came to the United States with his parents, Henry F. and Martha Bosenberg, settling in North Brunswick in 1924. He began working as a young boy with his father in the family…

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    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is being celebrated by Jews around the world from Dec. 6-13.

  • Renaming buildings at Princeton is ‘hogwash’

    People are talking about the renaming of buildings at Princeton University that bear the name of Woodrow Wilson, the desire by some individuals to erase and rewrite history in order to whitewash our past. In this instance, describing the need by these people to remove a person’s name from a building because of a perceived…

  • Robert D. Azzara

    Robert D. Azzara, 56, of East Brunswick passed away suddenly on Nov. 20. Born in New Brunswick, he was a lifelong resident of East Brunswick and a graduate of Boston College. In 2013, he retired from TD Bank, Morristown. Surviving are his parents, Nicholas and Ann (Battaglia) Azzara of East Brunswick; his sister, Jamie Malloy…

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    PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC SUCAR

  • Carriers should ensure deliveries

    I have been hearing a lot in the news lately about missing packages from people’s front porches. The carriers who deliver the packages can solve this problem. For example, as it is now, the delivery person sets the package on the front porch and rings the doorbell. The carrier does not wait to see if…

  • Educating children is a Learning Experience

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer MATAWAN – A local early education academy is helping its young preschoolers become “little philanthropists” through a curriculum geared towards teaching lessons of hope and charitability, while also providing hands-on opportunities for students to effect change with their newfound skills. “As part of The Learning Experience, we have a…