Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Survey doesn’t add up

    Survey doesn’t add up A recent survey regarding the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex rail line leaves more questions than it answers. According to the survey by McLaughlin & Associates of Alexandria, Va., 65 percent of the 400 adults contacted on June 19 were not even aware of the project. This is not only a defeat for proponents…

  • Doesn’t want to be made to pay for new school

    Well, Dec. 9 is right around the corner, and here we go again. The plans have changed for this $82.9-million bond package. Now they want to build a school on Green Acres property. They seem to be able to find land to sell to developers but not to build a school on. What is that…

  • For the Record

    For the Record A Lowe’s Home Improvement Center that has been approved by the East Brunswick Planning Board to be built on the site of a former Revlon warehouse near Route 18 and Tices Lane will have points of entry from a new connector road leading from Tices Lane, and from Route 18. However, the…

  • Study could play key role in prevention of autism

    The New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC) is pleased to have learned that Linda Brzustowicz, a Rutgers University scientist, will be working with 150 families in our state to study the genetics of families affected by autism. The $3.7 million funding from the National Institutes of Health may play…

  • Middletown Halloween event demonstrated family ties

    Congratulations on Milltown’s successful Haunted River Walk created and presented by the eighth-grade students and their parents at Joyce Kilmer School. This three-night event, headed by parent volunteer Tim McGowan, demonstrated the unique closeness of Milltown families. This was not a high-tech event, but it was most certainly high on energy, creativity, imagination and old-fashioned…

  • Generous donations will help homeless animals

    A story recently ran in your newspaper about Animal Rescue Force (ARF) and the financial crisis we were facing. The community response was overwhelming. Animal lovers in the entire Middlesex County area sent much-needed donations. I would like to thank everyone who opened their hearts and their wallets to help the homeless animals we care…

  • Obituaries

    Lavina Blakeney Magner Obituaries Lavina Blakeney Magner Mrs. Magner, 87, of North Brunswick died Nov. 3 at Applegarth Care Center, Monroe Township. Born in New Brunswick, she resided in North Brunswick for more than 60 years. She was a coiler at National Musical String Co., New Brunswick, for more than 40 years, retiring in 1970.…

  • Day honors the veterans who kept our nation free

    Veterans Day, Nov. 11, is that one day of the year set aside for veterans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it to be a national holiday in 1938. Parades and programs, including patriotic and church services, will pay tribute to those who served to keep our nation free. Originally, the day was called Armistice Day…

  • Don’t miss your chance

    to have a voice Nov. 4 Don’t miss your chance to have a voice Nov. 4 Political candidates are making their last push to sway voters in these final days before the Nov. 4 general election. Election Day provides citizens of this country something many others do not have, — the power to elect our…