Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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For the Record
The North Brunswick Board of Education has hired consultant J.D. Associates to assist with their superintendent search for a fee of $18,500, not $6,000, as was reported in the Oct. 5 story “Public invited to share thoughts on supt. search.”
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Coda
This year, old-fashioned is the height of fashion Greg Bean Like many men of my acquaintance, I have a simple philosophy when it comes to fashion: Pick a look you like and stay with it forever. For me, that means my work wardrobe consists almost entirely of khaki or colored-denim trousers, oxford shirts with buttoned…
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Are We There Yet?
She would just love to sell her cell phone Lori Clinch From the moment I saw a woman on TV using a cell phone to call in a pizza, I wanted a cell phone so bad I couldn’t stand it. A cloud of desire came over me as I imagined all of the freedom that…
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Obituaries
Mary Volgyi Hale Mrs. Hale, 85, of South Brunswick, died Sept. 24 at Park Place Center, South Brunswick. Born in Carteret, she resided in Perth Amboy; Detroit; Parrishville, N.Y.; Milltown; New Brunswick; and Clinton prior to moving to South Brunswick in 1991. She was an assembler and machine operator at Quality Packaging, Frenchtown, for 21…
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Public invited to share thoughts on supt. search
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – The search for a new district superintendent will begin Wednesday with a series of meetings held throughout the day. The Board of Education is inviting all community members to attend a public input session at 7:30 p.m. at the North Brunswick Township High…
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Linwood will serve as model for state project
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Linwood Middle School will serve as one of only six mentor schools in the state as part of the Partnership for Advancing Character Education through Service-Learning (PACES) project. “Our school is honored that our character education and service-learning efforts have been recognized and…
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As senator, Kean will help ‘get our house in order’
Sen. Robert Menendez’s latest TV commercial states if President George W. Bush won’t stand up for security in New Jersey, he will. If Menendez is really concerned about security in New Jersey, why didn’t he appear on TV and question Democratic Gov. James McGreevey when he put his lover, Golan Cipal, an Israeli, in charge…
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Curfew in North Brunswick will not deter criminals
I can’t believe the Township Council has no other options in controlling gang activities other than punishing all the children in the township (“Year-round curfew considered in N.B.,” Sept. 28)! If this is your idea of “thinking outside the box,” I suggest you go back to the beginning and start again. How can you believe…
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Your Turn
Citizens need to re-enter the public arena Harry Pozycki Guest Column Harry PozyckiGuest Column Former Sen. John Lynch’s agreement to plead guilty was probably the most important development in the past few weeks of unappetizing headlines in our state’s major newspapers. A powerful force in state and local politics, Lynch was a master of the…
