Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Doctor offers ways to keep holidays from turning blue

    The holiday season can bring great joy, a time when celebrating with family and friends is buoyed even further by a sense of renewal and the hope for better things in the year ahead, but not everyone will share in the celebratory nature of the season. For some, the presence of so much celebration can…

  • Coda

    ‘Tis the stressful season for us ‘guerrilla shoppers’ GREG BEAN There was a time not long ago when my wife said one of the most surprising things she’s said in over 25 years of marriage. We’d taken a Sunday drive down to Cape May, and while I was content to just drive around, gawking at…

  • Red State/Blue State

    Great thoughts from celebs on political endorsements DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN 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. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: The Red States are abuzz…

  • Alcohol is never safe during pregnancy

    Once again we have arrived at this wondrous season of hope and renewal. This season so filled with preparing our homes and our offices and our schedules; preparing to visit, to attend, to host; preparing to share and reminisce, to laugh and to sing … As we wade through our multitude of preparations, let each…

  • Designate a driver to keep holidays safe

    The holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is one of the deadliest and most dangerous times of the year due to an increase in impaired driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 1,201 people across America, just during the month of December 2005, were killed in highway crashes involving a driver…

  • Thoughts on holiday trees and teaching values, morality

    Where have values truly gone? I can remember my parents enforcing rules when I was a child and teaching us values that formed as a result of true beliefs and knowledge. Today, however, there still exist parents such as that, but morals are depleting primarily due to impressions made and dictated by Hollywood and politicians.…

  • Specifics of new school funding formula unfurled

    All districts would receive at least 2% increase in state aid; some up to 20% BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer TRENTON – The state aid figures from Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed new school funding plan would give area school districts a significant cash increase from Trenton if the new formula passes the Legislature. The proposed…

  • Holidays can be educational as well as celebratory

    To quote John Lennon, “So this is Christmas…” but it’s also Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, followed by the Diwali (Indian) and ‘Id al-Fitr (Muslim) festivals. For virtually everyone in our state, holidays are a special time, whenever in the year they occur. In a state as diverse as New Jersey, the most diverse in the country,…

  • Jack David Seiden

    Mr. Seiden, 59, of East Windsor, died Nov. 26, 2007, at University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he resided in East Windsor the past 30 years. He was a comptroller for several years. He was predeceased by his father, Bernard; and a son, Marc Seiden killed in the Iraq war in 2004.…