Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • In the Moody’s for math

    Students find stock market is a tricky business in challenge BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Surround-ed by a cafe full of bread, five high school math students tried to make some dough of their own. Seniors Harrison Chapman, Sachin Desai, Neil Parikh and Jigar Shah, and junior Mohit…

  • On Campus

    Jaime Krukas, North Brunswick,was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Montclair State University, where she is a sophomore majoring in elementary education. North Brunswick resident Diane Lagowski was named to dean’s list for the fall semester at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where she is a junior accounting major. A 2004 graduate…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Pension fund fiasco is Enron on the Delaware For a while, it looked like Monmouth and Middlesex counties were developing a monopoly on political corruption and sleight of hand. In Monmouth County, there were so many bribes being paid to politicians at local bars and restaurants the bad guys had to buy brown paper…

  • Voters will have some variety in the booths

    In politics, just as in the marketplace, competition is good. So it bodes well for voters in North and South Brunswick that when they step into the booths on April 17, there will be plenty of choices among a diverse crop of school board candidates. This week the Sentinel brings you profiles of the candidates…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Sometimes, it’s the small things that save a marriage Last weekend, my stepfather got married to a wonderful woman, and I couldn’t be happier. This is a guy who came into the lives of me and my brothers after my father died, and not only loved our mother, but nursed her through her last…

  • State must make fair investment in charter schools

    Last June marked one of my greatest personal moments in the last 10 years, when I took part in my older daughter’s eighth-grade graduation ceremony. It doesn’t happen often, but I was completely overcome with gratitude and with pride in the person that her school has helped her to become. My daughter graduated from Greater…

  • Vote for school budget, leaders who support education

    Just recently on New Jersey Network (NJN 50) the state’s Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy stated, “We will have a new school funding formula in 2008 by the time the new school term starts.” I sincerely hope that she has the governor and Legislature on her side. For years the school boards across the state…

  • Need new face like Agarwal on S.B. board

    Surabhi Agarwal seems to have some very interesting new ideas for improving the South Brunswick School District that are definitely worth considering. I particularly like her “green initiatives” – I think we all have to change our mindsets and embrace alternate cleaner energy sources if we have to save and protect this world for the…

  • S.B. would benefit from Agarwal’s fresh ideas

    South Brunswick’s school board would benefit from the fresh ideas offered by Surabhi Agarwal. In particular I am impressed with her ideas of involving local science experts in our students’ education and of developing renewable energy sources in our school district. As a teacher in the Middlesex County Vocation and Technical High Schools, I have…