Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Smokeout offers new ways to quit smoking
The American Cancer Society (ACS) celebrated the 31st anniversary of the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 15. With exactly half of the United States now protected by smoke-free laws, and a variety of cessation resources available, there has never been a better time to quit smoking and enjoy the health benefits. Americans who smoke and…
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Flu vaccine may not be as simple a solution as first assumed
Before everyone runs out to get their annually recommended flu shot, I felt I needed to point out a few facts that have not been mentioned. Most flu vaccines still contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. Mercury is a known neurotoxin and can be highly detrimental, especially to children. Each year three strains of flu are…
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Pauline Krehel Ferko
Mrs. Ferko, 74, of North Brunswick, died Nov. 10, 2007, at home. Born in Slovakia, she resided in Metuchen prior to relocating to North Brunswick 20 years ago. Mrs. Ferko was employed at Pathmark Supermarkets, Edison, for 10 years, retiring in 1995. She was a communicant of Saints Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church, Somerset.…
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Virginia “Terry” Rivers Sabino
Mrs. Sabino, 61, of North Brunswick, died Nov. 10, 2007, at The Elms, Cranbury. Born in New Brunswick, she resided in East Brunswick prior to relocating to North Brunswick two years ago. She was an accountant at St. Bartholomew’s Roman Catholic Church Parish Office, East Brunswick. Prior to that, she was an accountant at several…
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Mary V. Carciotto
Miss Carciotto, 92, of Milltown, died Nov. 13, 2007, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Ralston, Pa., she resided in New Brunswick prior to relocating to Milltown in 1977. She was a seamstress at C&K Dress Company, South River, for more than 30 years, retiring in 1980. She was a communicant of…
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Elizabeth “Betty” J. Ryan Nielsen
Mrs. Nielsen, 83, of South River, died Nov. 6, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1995, she was employed as a packer with Block Drug, Dayton section of South Brunswick, where she worked for 15 years. Her husband, Harney E., died in 1975, and a son, Richard C.,…
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Project Graduation fundraiser
PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top: JoAnn Greenberg (l) and Stasia Kwiatkowski take a look at one of the many craft stations set up at the third annual South Brunswick High School Project Graduation Craft Show on Saturday. Middle: Renu Kumar (l) was one of more than 90 crafters from New York, New Jersey and…
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School progress
CHRIS KELLY staff The progressing construction project at Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick will result in a two-level structure for science laboratories, regular classrooms, special-education rooms and small-group instruction areas. The new wing should be ready by the beginning of the 2008 school year.
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School board wary of funding discussions
S.B. hopes legislators do not rush judgment for new school aid formula BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Gov. Jon Corzine and the New Jersey Legislature hope to complete a new school funding formula during the lame duck legislative session that is going on from now until Jan. 8 when the newly elected…
