Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Hot summer dreams keep rolling through my mind

    GREG BEAN Coda I’m sitting out on the deck looking over my backyard in the dark of a hot summer night. The air is thick and close, and if I close my eyes, I can almost imagine I’ve been transported to an earlier, almost antediluvian time. The canopy of leaves on the big trees in…

  • In Denver, things take a turn for the truly weird

    DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Red State/Blue State A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson — a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist — and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: We’re on pins and needles out here in the Red States, Old Pal, anxiously awaiting…

  • Public encouraged to join Race for the Cure

    One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. We want to change that statistic. I am the team captain for the Contemporary Plastic Surgery Race for the Cure Team. Dr. Robert Herbstman has been supporting a Race for the Cure team for 10 years. We want to collaborate to find…

  • Residents should fight for waste cleanup

    As a college student studying both earth and political science, I have come to understand the power residents have to impact their local environment. New Jersey currently has more than 20,000 toxic waste sites, the most of any state in the nation. If left unremediated or undetected, toxic sites will threaten human health and the…

  • Vincenzia Perrone Zorzi

    Mrs. Zorzi, 91, of Vero Beach, Fla., and formerly of North Brunswick, died July 19, 2008, at home. She resided in North Brunswick, prior to relocating to Vero Beach six years ago. She was predeceased by her husband, Bruno Zorzi, in 1982; and a son, Bruno, in 2002. She is survived by a son, Phil…

  • Lucille M. Krisam Rooney

    Mrs. Rooney, 85, of North Brunswick, died July 20, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur F. Rooney, in 1972. She is survived by three sons and two daughtersin law, Douglas A. and Mary Rooney of New Jersey, Mark Rooney of Hawaii, and Jeffrey and Kathy…

  • Claire Stein

    Mrs. Stein, 79, of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, died July 23, 2008, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was a retiree of A&P, Union, where she was employed 26 years. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Irving Stein; a son and daughter-in-law, Howard and Danna of Somerset;…

  • Developers are pulling strings in Trenton

    If anyone doubts the inordinate influence the building and related industries have on our state legislators, consider their continuous and blatant efforts to weaken and even erase our environmental protection laws. A while back, building lobbyists proposed a “fast track” law that would have required a deliberately understaffed Department of Environmental Protection to act on…

  • A $50 donation can buy a lot of pet kibble

    GREG BEAN Coda There are a lot of responsibilities that come with having a pet, but one of the most difficult is fulfilling the part of the implied contract that says you will make difficult decisions for the animal that the animal can’t make for itself. In our family’s case, that has meant deciding when…