Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Car buyers deserve consumer rights

    The New Jersey Legislature should enact a law for consumers, which would require a car dealer to provide the customer a conspicuous written notice giving the customer one business day to sign the automobile purchase contract. One local automobile dealer recently smooth-talked me into signing a purchase contract on-the-spot for a brand new car. I…

  • Seven file to run for S.B. school board seats

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Three seats on the Board of Education are being pursued by seven people this year, with candidates listing school funding, standardized test scores and teacher training among the key issues of the race. Those seeking one of the three-year terms on the local…

  • Board fielding options to fix playing surfaces

    Some say artificial turf at high school may ease problems from overuse BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO The baseball fields at the high school, which were also used by the girls’ soccer teams last season, are subject to piles of mud and pools of water due to poor irrigation…

  • Guest thankful for Read Across America experience

    I would like to take this opportunity to thank the administration and staff at John Adams Elementary School for allowing me to participate in their Read Across America program March 2. I had the extreme privilege of being asked to read a story to Ms. Altman’s fifth-grade class. I had an opportunity to experience the…

  • Seussical

    SCOTT PILLING staff The cat is out of the bag. The surprise visitor at John Adams Elementary School in North Brunswick on Friday was not the Cat in the Hat, but Alice Rokita, an academic support teacher and chairperson of the Literacy Committee, who dressed up to celebrate Read Across America in remembrance of the…

  • Students ‘Spike Cancer’ through charity volleyball

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Seventh-grader Carson McHugh, a member of the 7-D team, dives for a ball during the annual Volley for Life fundraiser at the Crossroads Middle School in South Brunswick on Friday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Crossroads North Middle School students played volleyball for hours to…

  • Lori Clinch

    Are We There Yet? Cover it with ketchup and call it delectable I have a metabolism that runs as fast as a stream of molasses on a cold day in January. The smell of fresh baked cookies adds inches to my waist. The mere sight of bread has me bulging out of my jeans and…

  • In hindsight, hire of lobbyists looks SMART

    We were critical when South Brunswick hired a group of Washington, D.C., lobbyists to go after federal funding in February of 2005, but you can’t argue with success. Apparently, Mayor Frank Gambatese and company looked into the future and saw what many of us didn’t – millions of dollars in federal transportation earmarks being funneled…

  • Attorney says unanswered questions exist about civil unions

    I am a divorce and family mediator and wanted to add some additional information to Chris Gaetano’s Feb. 22 article “N.J. still sorting out legal details of civil unions.” The article fails to mention what happens when a civil union does not work out and needs to be dissolved. While the N.J. Legislature tried to…