Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Thanks extended to SB food drive donors

    As the holidays approach, it’s the time of year again for the local Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts to help out those less fortunate with their annual Thanksgiving food drive. This year was a huge success and it enables us to get a jump-start on packing up our food boxes for families. Between the Scouts…

  • Director notes inaccuracies in adoption article

    Iam writing in reference to an article written by Chris Murino and published Nov. 15 in the North Brunswick/South Brunswick Sentinel. In his article, Mr. Murino profiles Mirah Riben, an activist who describes the National Council For Adoption (NCFA)’s opposition to mandatory open adoption records in New Jersey. Ms. Riben claims that NCFA is “a…

  • 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…

  • Pre-K students play doctor at hospital

    Four-year-olds take trip to Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Students of the JCC of North & South Brunswick Nursery School perform “surgery” on a patient at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital in New Brunswick. Through the Child Life Program, children are brought in to view basic medical procedures such as taking…

  • Princeton University to build research campus

    Mayor: Land swap will affect South Brunswick positively BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer PRINCETON – Princeton University’s real-estate firm Princeton Forrestal has proposed constructing a science research campus on about 90 acres of land along Route 1. Princeton Forrestal will be selling these 90 acres, of the 150 acres it owns, to a private sector…

  • Coda

    Savor those magical and special moments in time GREG BEAN I gave up big-game hunting decades ago when I moved away from the state where I was born, a place where most people filled their freezers for the winter and fed their kids from the bounty of the land. And even though it’s been a…

  • Red State/Blue State

    If you look outside, you might see pigs in flight 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: In the…

  • Coda

    Out with the old, in with the new – and not-so-new GREG BEAN There were some complete surprises in last week’s general election around here, and it wasn’t just the incredibly low turnout. First, Freehold Borough’s Democratic Mayor, Michael Wilson, won another fouryear term. At this point, he’s been mayor since May 1985, but everyone…

  • Red State/Blue State

    To know R. Giuliani is to love him – or maybe not 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:…