Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • 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…

  • Schools report overall increase in test scores

    In State of District address, funding still deemed area of concern BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Staff members of South Brunswick’s schools delivered the annual State of the District address on Tuesday, which elaborated upon things such as academic performance, fiscal policy and professional development. During the address,…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda New state budget has a few small omissions My grandfather, who once worked as the administrator of a state government institution, told me about a technique used at budget time called “shooting the cocker spaniel.” “Here’s how it works,” he said. “No voter wants to hear about tax increases, and no politician who wants…

  • Proposed tax bill would harm No. Brunswick

    Gov. Jon Corzine should conditionally veto Assembly Bill 1, and recommend to the Legislature that the start of the new 4 percent property tax cap be delayed until 2008-09. This would not affect the other provisions of A1, and would allow time for public hearings and corrections to critical issues presented by the proposed 4…

  • Friends appreciate book sale supporters

    Before we share our book sale success story, we invite you to join us for our gift to you: “Singing and Music by Vince DiDonato” March 11 at 2 p.m. at the main meeting room of the library. The program, punch and cookies are provided by the Friends. Free to participants. Dancing is encouraged. Our…

  • One recommendation enacted will save state no money

    In your Feb. 15 issue column (Greg Bean, “In Trenton, the lunatics are running the asylum”), you claimed that none of the original recommendations by the Joint Legislative Committees were actually adopted. That’s not true. Recommendation 13 of the Joint Committee on Public Employee Benefits – “Close the Workers’ Compensation Judges Part of PERS” –…

  • Obituaries

    Susan Burgois Mrs. Burgois, 58, of North Brunswick, died Feb. 18, 2007, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. Born in New York City, she resided in North Brunswick since 1999. She is survived by two daughters, Sandra Dehogues of Somerset, and Linda Santiago of South Plainfield; a son, Edward I. Santiago of the Kendall Park section…