Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Return Debra Johnson to the mayor’s post in South Brunswick

    I have been a resident of South Brunswick for more than 35 years and a Democratic committeeman for several years. In the past, I have supported both the current mayor and our former mayor Debra Johnson. This year I had to make a choice and I chose Debbie. I have known Debra Johnson since she…

  • A thank you note to St. Augustine’s School

    My name is Emily Sullivan and I am almost 6 years old. I am in kindergarten at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Milltown. Lots of people know that my school might close after this year. One of the older students at St. Augustine’s School in Kendall Park heard this news and asked the principal…

  • linch

    It only seems like $8 million ago that my husband and I admired our eldest as he rode his cheap little Hot Wheel down the walk. Vernon was so small back then, so innocent, so easy to please, and so gosh darned inexpensive. Well, pass the time and check the bank statements, Honey, cuz those…

  • linch

    It only seems like $8 million ago that my husband and I admired our eldest as he rode his cheap little Hot Wheel down the walk. Vernon was so small back then, so innocent, so easy to please, and so gosh darned inexpensive. Well, pass the time and check the bank statements, Honey, cuz those…

  • Time is right for false bomb threat crackdown

    Juveniles do all sorts of things that seem like fun at the time, but they live to realize they were stupid. Think prank calls, bullying, sneaking beers into the woods or damaging private property on Mischief Night. Although these acts violate one law or another, when the kids are caught, the tendency by authorities is…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda Residents need more info about evacuation Two weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of an evacuation plan in Monmouth County and the state in case of emergency – at least a plan that anyone knows about. And toward the end of that column, I said that even if such plans exist, crisis managers…

  • Money can saved by consolidation, sharing of services

    You would think by now the mandate to reform school spending and our overall tax structure at this point would reach a state of urgency amongst our state legislators – well, apparently not. The call to a constitutional convention to revamp our tax structure continues to receive politically-driven delays. This absolutely baffles me. Much of…

  • Obituaries

    Billy Asher Gabbard Mr. Gabbard, 83, of Stuart, Fla., died May 1 at Hospice of Martin, Stuart. Born in Hazard, N.C., he had lived in North Brunswick for 30 years before moving to Florida 11 years ago. Mr. Gabbard was a traffic coordinator at Ford Motor Co., Newark, for 38 years, retiring in 1985. He…

  • Dedicated state income tax should fund education

    We need tax reform now, not two years from now. After reading the newspaper reports regarding Gov. Jon Corzine’s approach to the high, regressive property tax problem, I frankly got the impression the problem won’t be studied for another two years. It appears that Gov. Corzine will rely on a people’s constitutional convention. As I…