Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Widen Route 535 now for motorists’ sake
Finishing the last section of Route 522 with four lanes to Route 535 is a priority this year for South Brunswick’s mayor. That would expedite tractor-trailer traffic to all the warehouses along Ridge Road (Route 522) but would leave a bottleneck on the two-lane Route 535 to the New Jersey Turnpike Exit-8A area. When will…
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Mayor appreciates help with robbery incident
A very sincere thank you to Police Director Kenneth McCormick and Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services LouAnn Benson, and to the members of the North Brunswick Police Academy and Youth Council who met at Society Hill on Saturday morning to distribute leaflets advising residents of a robbery that had occurred and offering assurances…
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Level the playing field for SBHS students
We were surprised to find out how much harder it is to get good grades at South Brunswick High School than at other schools in the region. Now school leaders are considering lowering the bar a bit, and there’s no shame in that move whatsoever. On Monday, the Board of Education and school administration discussed…
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Coda
A somber toast for the coming year (redux) Greg Bean This column first appeared Jan. 4, 2006. I think it’s even more appropriate today than it was then. Things haven’t gotten better in the last year. They’ve gotten worse, and our president is talking about sending even more young soldiers into harm’s way. I hope…
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Obituaries
Thomas J. Durkin Mr. Durkin, 44, of South Brunswick, died Jan. 8, 2007, at Somerset Medical Center. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., he resided in Yonkers, N.Y., before relocating to South Brunswick 12 years ago. Mr. Durkin was CEO and vice president at Schaffner EMC Inc., Edison. He was a member of St. Augustine of…
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First-graders take first steps learning to read
Workshops focus on techniques for getting children to learn BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Whether it is “The Cat in the Hat,” “Goodnight Moon” or “Where the Wild Things Are,” everyone has a favorite book from when they were a child. To help first-graders learn to read effectively…
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Your Turn
The Katrina rebuilding job is far from over Rosemary Topar Guest Column Rosemary ToparGuest Column When I drove down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast with my coworkers earlier this month to help in the post-Katrina reconstruction effort, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Wearing goggles and wielding paint rollers isn’t a typical activity for me;…
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S.B. schools save paper with online Friday folders
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The township’s elementary schools hope to save some time, money and trees with an online mailer program. Brooks Crossing, Constable and Indian Fields schools have just completed the pilot for an online version of the Friday folder program. The Friday folder is a…
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James Shackleford … time traveler?
I enjoyed reading the editorial titled “Historian’s research yields valuable lessons” that appeared in the Dec. 29 Sentinel. It was a nice addition to the page 3 story about the research and documentation that James Shackleford has conducted concerning the history of slavery in our part of New Jersey, in particular the recent recognition he…
