Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Are We There Yet?

    Are you sure you don’t need a hug?’ LORI CLINCH Writing a weekly column in a house such as mine is no easy task. Quite frankly, it’s difficult to get in the right frame of mind. While a better person would use yoga, Pilates and perhaps a moment of meditation, I have to get my…

  • Theresa R. Enuco

    Mrs. Enuco, 84, of North Brunswick, died Nov. 4, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton. She was employed at Park Packaging, New Brunswick, for six years, retiring in 1986. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph J. Enuco, in 1960. She is survived by a daughter, Constance Enuco of Plainsboro; two sons, Joseph…

  • Ana V. Jaffe

    Mrs. Jaffe, 54, of North Brunswick, died Nov. 6, 2008, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was employed several years in her family’s business, Liberty Decorators, Milltown. She is survived by her husband, Marty; her mother, Renee Levy of Mexico City, Mexico; three sons, Elias of Brooklyn, N.Y., Sam of North Brunswick, and…

  • Anne Marie Melher

    Mrs. Melher, 44, of Oakdale, Conn., died Oct. 27, 2008, after a battle with colon cancer. She was on leave from her employer, Pfizer’s Inc., where she had worked for the past 10 years. Mrs. Melher was predeceased by her father, Edward Steven. Surviving are her husband, PJ Melher; a son, Christopher Yeager of Oakdale,…

  • In the News

    Challenging times, but we look ahead • MARK ROSMAN You may have read recent reports about the struggles the newspaper business is facing these days. Going back to the time before the present recession hit the United States, newspapers were facing a changing climate — one in which advertisers and readers were migrating to other…

  • Thanks go out for Community Unity Day

    The Fall Festival Charlene Austin Community Unity Day is a day set aside for our diverse community to come together as one, in a drug- and smoke-free environment. We made the decision to switch the annual event from September to October this year, and we were really lucky. We couldn’t have asked for more perfect…

  • Return Beech Woods Park to its original state

    The ghoulishly gruesome discovery of dead bodies buried in South Brunswick’s Beech Woods Park is truly a tragic event. How could this have happened in our normally bucolic town? The family that suffered in this instance goes far beyond the parents who were murdered, their son and his girlfriend. All of South Brunswick is hurting…

  • Season without a skate park a blow to kids’ dreams

    At one of several meetings held last winter, the Department of Parks and Recreation were presented, upon request, three quotes to put up a skate park. At this meeting, information was presented that included comparison pictures of skate parks in Middlesex County and quotes from companies who installed their ramps or were competitors. Those who…

  • Coda

    And now, we return to our regularly scheduled program GREG BEAN Ifigure there’ll be a lot of upsides to getting this never-ending election over with — and one of the best things will be getting my History Channel back. Longtime readers will remember the outrage I felt (an outrage shared by many) when Comcast took…