Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Reeding between the lines

    ERIC SUCAR staff The North Brunswick Township High School marching band performs before the crowd gathered at the United States Scholastic Band Association competition, held at Monroe Township High School on Saturday.

  • Politicians often attempt to abuse letters forum

    GREG BEAN Coda In the newspaper business, there are some lessons you just have to learn the hard way. There’s an old maxim in this profession that even if your mother says she loves you, check it out. In other words, don’t believe anything people tell you without evidence, because you’ll be taken advantage of…

  • Measure provides extra defense to homebuyers

    South Brunswick’s ordinance demanding local review of builders’ public offering statements (POS) is a unique measure that doesn’t figure to make a huge difference for consumers, but certainly can’t hurt. The POS, in residential development, is a document given to prospective buyers by builders describing the lay of the land in the area they would…

  • New Jersey’s diversity is a significant asset for state

    As the most racially and ethnically diverse state in the country, New Jersey faces unique opportunities and challenges to create inclusive communities, a productive workforce, a responsive educational system, bias-free institutions and a respectful society. The recent American Conference on Diversity survey, New Jersey: A Statewide View of Diversity, shows New Jersey residents’ attitudes, behaviors…

  • Planners made right call in denying warehouse

    As a former member of the Millburn Township Zoning Board of Adjustment, I can objectively comment on the South Brunswick Planning Board’s decision to deny the Matrix application to construct the huge warehouse along Friendship Road and Route 32. In my opinion, the township did the right thing by all the residents of the town…

  • Obituaries

    Henry J. Sutter Mr. Sutter, 82, of Sayreville, died Sept. 27, 2007, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1988, he worked as a research biochemical technician at Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick and Princeton. He was a secretary to the Sayreville Zoning Board of Adjustment and a Sayreville Democratic Committeeman. Surviving are his wife, Catherine…

  • On target?

    CHRIS KELLY staff North Brunswick’s Joseph Golubieski, 11, tries his hand at a skilled target game while visiting St. Joseph High School’s Founders Day event in Metuchen on Sept. 22.

  • N.B. schools make the grade on NCLB scores

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The township school district has passed 241 of the 243 indicators for adequate yearly progress as set forth by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Each elementary school and the high school met all 41 indicators for NCLB accountability, which require students as whole and as…

  • Obituaries

    Loretta J. Baum Culver Mrs. Culver, 63, of Jamesburg, died Sept. 14, 2007, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was the owner of South Brunswick Kennels. Surviving are her husband, James Culver; a daughter, Christine Palmer of Pocomoke, Md.; a son, Mark Culver of the Toms River section of Dover; a brother,…