Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Foundation raises money for special school projects
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The township Educational Foundation presented professional grant assistance to members of the school district during a special ceremony on Sept. 4. Kerry Fleming was awarded with $1,445 for her program “Rainbows” at Livingston Park Elementary. The not-forprofit international organization fosters emotional healing for children who are grieving…
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School spirit
JEFF GRANIT staff The North Brunswick Township High School football team breaks through a banner to start off the season against Sayreville.
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Judd students can walk this way – or can they?
NORTH BRUNSWICK BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Parents of Judd Elementary School students are concerned their children are being dangerously rerouted in order to enter the building because of an ongoing construction project. Administration, meanwhile, says no one is facing any harm. The main entrances along Roosevelt Avenue are closed due to…
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Are We There Yet?
They’d work well for the Marching Martyrs Society LORI CLINCH One would be hard pressed to find an individual who volunteers more than my sister Patti. She attends meetings, formal gatherings and women’s luncheons. She sits with pen in hand and carefully documents every detail and when the need for a volunteer arises, she’s the…
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School’s back
PHOTOS BY ANDREW MILLER staff Students make their way inside Crossroads North Middle school in Monmouth Junction on the first day of classes on Sept. 6.
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Company donates day to give school makeover
Improvements to Our Lady of Lourdes seen as ‘priceless’ BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent ANDREW MILLER staff Abhay Taiwade, of Somerset, paints a boys’ bathroom at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Milltown Aug. 23. He and more than 100 other employees of Music Choice spent the day giving the school building a makeover and…
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EARTH study
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above, students study the varieties of flowers at the Eco- Adventures workshop in the EARTH Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick on Thursday. At right, (r-l) Emma Feeny, 10, of Milltown, Jon Bay, 10, of Highland Park, Katie Siegel, 10, of North Brunswick, Katie Szabo, 12, of East…
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Reaching for the sky
Plants reach for the sun at Davidson’s Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick. PHOTO BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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New school year brings new N.B. employees
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education has appointed several employees to fill newly created positions and jobs left vacant by personnel leaving the school district recently. With the resignation of Geri Margin, the former assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, in July, Schools Superintendent Brian Zychowski recommended dissolving her…
