Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • ‘New Kid’ puts a new spin on old problems

    Theater troupe addresses topics of discrimination through play at school BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Nick becomes very upset that his American classmates tease him for being a Homelander. He tries to ignore their taunts and hopes one day they will come to understand that he is just like them despite…

  • Friday with friends

    JEFF GRANIT staff Dominique Speed and her friends color a parachute during the artistic portion of Friday Night Recreation, held every week through March 2 at Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick. The program, run by the Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services, provides arts and crafts, board games, physical activities and movies for…

  • Writer needs to apologize to South Brunswick Township Council

    I am writing in response to a letter by Nanette Craig (“No-discussion council like bobble head dolls,” Jan. 18) regarding comments of the Deputy Mayor of South Brunswick Carol Barrett. Recently the deputy mayor commented that “[Democrat members of the Township Council] do have differences of opinion many times, but we will never fight or…

  • Kind act restores woman’s faith in humanity

    It’s so easy to become cynical about people these days and that you can’t trust anybody! A recent experience though has wiped such thoughts from my mind. After grocery shopping at ShopRite, I arrived home to find that my purse was missing. I called the store and was told that it hadn’t been turned in.…

  • Coda

    Merla is guilty? Boy, we didn’t see that coming Greg Bean After last Wednesday, we can add at least one more entry to our lexicon of words describing former Keyport Mayor John Merla – felon. It looks like I won’t be eating crow after all – which I might have been compelled to do had…

  • In the News

    Quotes show state leaders out of touch Mark Rosman It’s the little things that make me crazy at 5 a.m. I define “little things” as picking up my daily newspaper from the porch and seeing a pair of quotes from two purported New Jersey leaders that show me just how pathetic a state this state…

  • Obituaries

    Jean M. Lytkowski Mrs. Lytkowski, 94, of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., died Jan. 13, 2007, at JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, Fla. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she resided in New Brunswick and North Brunswick, prior to relocating to Royal Palm Beach. She was a sales clerk at Brooks Clothing, New Brunswick, for 20 years, retiring…

  • S.B. cheer team doesn’t disappoint home crowd

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Julianna Peng, 16, leads the South Brunswick High School varsity dance team at the Garden State Dance Championship, hosted by South Brunswick High School on Sunday. SOUTH BRUNSWICK – South Brunswick High School’s dance team popped, locked, kicked and twirled its way…

  • Obituaries

    Peter P. Santalucia Mr. Santalucia, 80, of North Brunswick, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in New Brunswick, he moved to North Brunswick 53 years ago. He was an inventory clerk at Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick, for 22 years, retiring in 1986. Prior to that, he was employed at…