Category: Sentinel-EBS 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…

  • Food drive

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON Democracy House, Middlesex County College’s service-learning program, recently collected more than 100 bags of food from the college community that it donated to Elijah’s Promise, the soup kitchen in New Brunswick. Pictured are Halimat Oshun of Iselin, left to right, Faculty Advisor Pattiann McMahon of South Plainfield, Coordinator Arianna Illa…

  • Coats for kids

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON The Association of Middlesex County College Nursing Students held its annual “Coats for Kids” coat drive, delivering 27 coats and six other items of winter apparel to the Raritan Bay Medical Center Pediatric Department. Pictured are Nursing Instructor/ Association Advisor Patricia Fox of East Brunswick, left to right, Treasurer Elisabeth…

  • Arlene H. Reich Montanaro

    Arlene H. Reich Montanaro, 85, went to her eternal rest on Dec. 4 after a long illness. A Jersey (City) girl, Arlene was the great-granddaughter of Irish famine immigrants, who came to Jersey City in 1846, and the granddaughter of German immigrants, who arrived there in 1889. Arlene and her five brothers were raised by…

  • 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…

  • Country legend Dolly Parton brings her most personal song to TV

    By Lori Acken, www.channelguidemag.com I was a little kid growing up in a home filled with country music when Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” became a radio hit in 1971. I already loved the story of the original coat thanks to Sunday school, and since I was a small-town girl with a loving mama,…

  • Holiday movie preview

    In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com As we race to the end of 2015, we will be greeted by a slew of big movies. Some movies will prosper, some will fail and some will get nominated for awards (both good and bad) — but all will bring their unique visions to the screen to…

  • Ava Gardner

    By David Cohea ReMIND magazine Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses during the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, starring in such films as The Killers, Show Boat, Mogambo (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), On the Beach and Night of the Iguana. A small-town girl…

  • Did you know …

    Wes Chatham in “The Expanse” RAFY/SYFY The highly anticipated 10-hour Syfy series “The Expanse” will premiere on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, at 10 p.m. This highly ambitious series is set 200 years in the future and follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective (played by Thomas…