Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Strict land use laws can save tax money, open space
Dianne Brake Guest Column A special fund set up in the 1990s to buy open space in New Jersey is expected to run out of money in July. Media attention has focused almost exclusively on how to raise the money to replenish the fund. But what’s missing from the conversation is how changes to land-use…
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No fix on Route 1, then no re-election
Give me a break! And, are you for real? That’s what I say as a resident of South Brunswick about the state Department of Transportation not being able to fund widening the 6.3 miles of Route 1 in South Brunswick to three lanes (“Route 1 widening project in doubt,” May 3). This must be done…
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Technology can’t top mystique of seeing a film on the big screen
Going to the movie theater in the ’70s was quite an eye-opening experience. The operatic direction of violence in “The Godfather” would set the standard and be copied by various filmmakers in the years to come. “Jaws” would make audiences scream and rake in so much money, marking forever the birth of the summer “event”…
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For the Record
In a South Brunswick Police Beats item last week, it was incorrectly reported that a woman at Curves for Women on Georges Road had her tote bag was stolen when she was working out. The woman was actually an employee of the gym who had lost her property from the bag while in the parking…
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Find your new best friend at the shelter
June is Adopt a Shelter Cat month, and as an animal shelter volunteer and guardian of two adopted cats, I can say that there’s no better place to find your new best friend than your local shelter. From playful kittens to cuddly “lap cats;” regal Persians to cute calicos, shelters have them all. Shelters across…
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Obituaries
Gloria C. Reitsky Setzer Mrs. Setzer, 83, of East Brunswick, formerly of North Brunswick, died May 23, 2007, in University Medical Center at Princeton. Surviving are her husband, Henry Setzer; a daughter, Susan Podrygula, and her husband, Stephan, of Minot, N.D.; and a grandson, Andrew. Cremation was under the direction of Brunswick Memorial Home, East…
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Writer urges support of Republican candidates, clean elections
Next Thursday, May 31 my wife, Nanette, and I are going to attend a fundraiser for state Senate Republican candidate Bill Baroni and Assembly candidates Tom Goodwin and Adam Bushman, and I invite many of your readers to come with us. The event is titled “Fair and Clean in District 14” and is named for…
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Your Turn
Rutgers Preserve makes a great destination Michelle Byers There’s only so much you can learn about the natural world from a book. Like students in so many other sciences and disciplines, those who want to study plants, animals, ecosystems and how they interact benefit from having a lab as part of the educational experience. Students…
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Coda
No reason for neighbors to go to their beds hungry Greg Bean Although I’m in a business where most people don’t get rich, my working wife and I have managed to raise three kids, put food on the table and keep a roof over our heads. And while there have been plenty of times when…
