Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Linwood Middle School student looks up to veterans
Dear Veteran, Thank you for serving and protecting our country. I look up to you with a tremendous amount of admiration and envy. It must have taken a huge amount of courage to defend our country. You put your life on the line for us, and you did not back out of your commitment. Once…
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Resident bemoans traffic coming to South Brunswick
We, the people, the citizens of South Brunswick, should wake up and listen to the call, “The traffic is coming, the traffic is coming.” The land swap deal between Princeton University and South Brunswick Township made two years ago has come back to bite us. Princeton University recently announced that it wants to build seven…
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Were residents voting for open space or synthetic turf?
When the voters approved the Middlesex County Open Space Fund, it was intended to be used to purchase lands for recreation and conservation purposes and to balance open space and development. The recent $2.5 million in grants from the Middlesex County Open Space Trust Fund to install synthetic-turf football fields at South River High School…
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State should emulate feds by printing its own money
The alternative solution to monetize the state debt is for New Jersey to print its own currency. In the early days of our country, individual banks printed their own money supported by gold or silver holdings. Currently, our national government money supplies are federal reserve notes propped up by the printing presses. New Jersey should…
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Student dances her way to N.B. Scholar Award
JENNIFER AMATO Shannon Dolan, North Brunswick Scholar Award recipient for October. NORTH BRUNSWICK – Shannon Dolan was honored as the October Scholar Award recipient at the Township Council meeting on Monday. The program was created to honor students who excel in academics, athletics and/or the arts. Shannon Dolan Grade: eighth-grader at Our Lady of Lourdes…
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Coda
More money than sense in 12th District Senate race GREG BEAN As I write this, the general election in New Jersey is six days away and the winner in the highly contentious 12th Legislative District Senate race between incumbent Democrat Ellen Karcher and Republican challenger and current Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck has not been decided. This…
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Red State/Blue State
When did the president become Daddy-in-Chief? 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: Times were tough over on your…
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The best defense of MRSA is prevention
If you read the daily paper, chances are good you’ll find a new story of another student diagnosed with methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Several deaths have been reported, and schools are closing to disinfect their facilities as more cases are diagnosed. MRSA has been around for many years, though it certainly has become increasingly…
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Realtor dispels doom and gloom reports
It’s my understanding that the media reports rather than creates the news. Therefore, when my personal experience as an active Realtor in the two-river peninsula area doesn’t confirm what I read in the papers and see on TV, I start looking more deeply into the issue. Since bad news sells more papers than good, we’re…
