Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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A literary phenomenon that spans the generations
Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda In the spring of 1965, I thought I might actually have to run away from home in the dead of night, hop a tramp steamer to Mongolia, and spend the remainder of my days building yurts, because I simply could not face the embarrassment of my life. At issue was…
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Kathy Street pleased with zoning outcome
The recent decision of the appellate court to uphold the zoning change of the property on the corner of Route 27 and Finnegan’s from C-2 to OP was in no small part due to the excellent legal representation by Anthony Campisano as well as the Township Council’s belief that the quality of life would be…
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Heavy burden on taxpayers needs to end
It is with some degree of shock and dismay that I opened my South Brunswick municipal tax bill today. Our elected officials should be both ashamed and embarrassed at burdening taxpayers the way that they have during the past few years. All we read in the press are pronouncements about why expenditures keep going up…
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Global-warming theory a sham, just like N.J. legislation
This letter is in response to Eddie Konczal’s letter to the editor (“Global-warming law looks to future,” July 19), praising the New Jersey Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act. He also uses the newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate change. I’m sure the new term global climate change is…
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School board names student services director
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education appointed Crossroads South Principal James Warfel to be the new director of student services for the district, replacing George Scott, who left to pursue other career goals earlier this year. Warfel was formally appointed to his new position during…
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Students invited to join youth conservation corps
Middlesex County youth interested in working to improve and preserve area parks this fall may apply now for positions with the Middlesex County Youth Conservation Corps. The corps uses youth employment to work on the more than 6,000 acres of open space owned and maintained by the county. Its mission is “to protect and preserve…
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Proceed with caution on town center plan
South Brunswick officials have rightly reacted with a healthy dose of skepticism toward a proposed town center-style development in Dayton. Although the fine print of what would be built is far from hashed out, the very idea of this village concept makes it one of the most ambitious development projects floated in South Brunswick’s recent…
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These days many soldiers just want the war to end
Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda As I write this today, my middle son is completing training at Fort Dix in preparation for deployment to Iraq next month. This will be his second tour of duty in that country. He joined the Army on Sept. 5, 2001, six days before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center…
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Prescription and over-the-counter drugs can be just as dangerous as illegal drugs
It has been three-and-a-half years since my son, Jason, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that he was abusing. He was 19 years old and in college studying to be a pharmacist. If that isn’t ironic enough, as his mother, I had what I believed to be a safety net – I work…
