Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Anthony P. Potkulski Mr. Potkulski, 82, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 14 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1989, he was employed as an oiler with Delco Remy, North Brunswick, where he worked for 35 years. Surviving are his wife, Katherine Klacik Potkulski; three sons, William and Greg,…

  • 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…

  • Most proved residency by the start of school

    Status was uncertain for children from about 200 North Bruns. households BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Roughly 200 families in the township had yet to verify their residency before school started on Sept. 7. Yet the number has been significantly reduced from the one-third of the 5,500 children…

  • Lack of sun produces adverse health outcomes

    There’s no question that chronic, excessive exposure to sunlight and sun burning incidents markedly increase your risk for skin cancer. But there’s little evidence out there that if you practice safe sun exposure, it would increase your risk for skin cancer or wrinkling. Nurse Niki Patel (“Dermatology nurse sheds light on dangers of tanning,” letters,…

  • Town comes together at S.B. Community Unity Day

    The Charlene Austin Community Unity Day was a success, thanks to the help and cooperation of the mayor, Township Committee, administration, police department, recreation department, public works department and health department. Thank you, Revs. Ozzie and Maltby for starting off the festivities with meaningful invocations. A special thanks go to Mark and Ginny Kraft and…

  • It’s all about the money

    Former Gov. James E. McGreevey may have thought he snookered some people back in August 2004. But McGreevey’s “I am a gay American” speech was a shameful sleight-of-hand maneuver designed to try and deflect attention from the real problems. The long-hidden sexual orientation of the former governor and mayor of Woodbridge was never, ever the…

  • Your Turn

    Victory in protecting Pigeon Swamp Park becomes sweeter after downfall of Sen. Lynch Jean Dvorak Guest Column Jean DvorakGuest Column As I look back at all my old notes and records from the 1999 hearings in South Brunswick regarding the Dallenbach Sand Co.’s attempts to mine the Green Acres lands of the Pigeon Swamp Park,…

  • For the Record

    Rabbi Daniel Fellman, who was quoted in last week’s story “Religious leaders call for love, unity on 9/11,” is from the Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, not Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick.

  • Coda

    Counting the days until the Merla Show premiere Greg Bean If you’re marking off the days on your calendar as we are, you know it’s now less than a month before Keyport Mayor and all-around wacky guy John Merla is scheduled to go on trial for corruption. The ever-optimistic mayor was caught up in the…