Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • 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…

  • On Campus

    The National Merit Scholarship Program has announced semifinalists for its 2007 awards. Approximately 16,000 semifinalists were chosen nationwide, and semifinalists may continue in the competition for a Merit Scholarship. Recipients are chosen based on skills, accomplishments and potential for success at the college level. The students are: Breanne K. Long and Jigar J. Shah, students…

  • Thanks to fellow driver for good deed

    At about noon Sept. 18 while doing my rounds as a Realtor, I pulled into the parking lot at the Wawa at the corner of Route 522 and Georges Road so my client could buy a bottle of water. When I tried to restart the engine, it would not turn over. I called AAA and…

  • Organ donations should go to willing donors

    Over half of the 92,000 Americans on the national organ transplant waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over 6,000 of our neighbors suffer and die needlessly every year as a result. There is a simple solution…

  • Curfew is unnecessary

    North Brunswick’s proposal to administer a year-round curfew is the kind of thing politicians propose to make themselves feel good, but stands to cause more problems than it solves. The ordinance, which is expected to be presented Oct. 10, would bar anyone under 18 from being out unsupervised after midnight, and assign various levels of…

  • For the Record

    A quote attributed to North Brunswick Board of Education member Neil Malvone in last week’s story “Post-prom absences may carry consequences,” attached to his headshot, was actually said by Peter Conlon, the teachers’ union representative.

  • Coda

    ‘The Confession’: More than we needed to know Greg Bean After the whirlwind of detail surrounding former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s life as a closeted gay, I have three words to describe my reaction: too much information. Like most people in New Jersey, it came as no particular surprise when McGreevey outed himself as…

  • H.S. senior earns Sept. scholar award

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Kevin Cramer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Intelligence has a set limit, but knowledge can always be gained. That is the motto that motivates Kevin Cramer, the North Brunswick Township High School senior who was presented with the September Scholar Athlete Award at a Township Council meeting last…

  • Post-prom absences may carry consequences

    Taking the week off has become tradition for NBTHS seniors BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer “It’s time we got back to the business of education. Graduation is the end. Prom isn’t.” – Neil Malvone NORTH BRUNSWICK – Too much of a good thing is never enough, or is it? The Board…