Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Maybe No. Brunswick school board can eliminate pork
Congrats to the new school board. Let’s hope they do more to eliminate the “pork” that has more to do with the administration and ditto than as some member that was not elected yesterday – “it’s about the kids that count.” Where have I heard that before? It’s never about the kids, it’s the above…
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Thanks extended to supporters of donor drive
South Brunswick’s Blood Bank Committee would like to thank the 150 folks who braved the wet weather and came to our blood donor drive. We appreciate their giving us part of a soggy spring Saturday. One hundred seventeen pints of much-needed blood were collected. We’re looking forward to even more of you joining us on…
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Internship grad advocates for mayor’s program
I would like to take this opportunity to confirm the comments made by Shilpn Patel in his recent letter (“Internship program should be revived,” March 23). The Mayor’s Summer Internship Program started by our Mayor Debra Johnson was a great learning experience that through the years I have built on. I have recently returned from…
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Leave Take Daughters and Sons to Work Day alone
My first reaction to what I read cannot be published. What caused such a severe reaction? It is a memo from all the principals in the South Brunswick School system regarding the national Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day program. This one day out of the year allows children to experience a day…
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What’s the evacuation plan? There is no plan
Greg Bean About 20 years ago, it dawned on people in northern Massachusetts that if the Seabrook nuclear power plant near the border of that state and New Hampshire melted down, or if there were a bad hurricane or other disaster, people were pretty much S.O.L. because there was absolutely no evacuation plan. The Seabrook…
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Your Turn
Matthew House Reader proposes specifics for N.J. tax reform We, the residents of New Jersey, have a plan to rid ourselves of the often burdensome, sometimes confiscatory New Jersey school property tax. tate legislators for too long have rallied to the cry “no tax increases,” meaning just our New Jersey income and sales taxes. They’ve…
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For the Record
Nick Chavez II, the biological father of a 3-year-old beaten to death in November, met alleged murderer Robert Knutsen around 1999 and met his ex-girlfriend Nicole while working at the same school in 2001. The April 6 Sentinel reported that Chavez and Knutsen met while Chavez and Nicole were dating.
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Anthony L. Bersani Mr. Bersani, 47, of East Brunswick, died April 17 in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He began his career as a stringer/freelance reporter for the Associated Press. He worked for the Atlantic City Press and the Asbury Park Press before being named managing editor of The Home News (now Home News…
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American Heart Association: Here’s to a smoke-free Garden State
A dark cloud has lifted from New Jersey and we will all breathe easier now that the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act has gone into effect. A long time coming, we look forward to a healthier Garden State and to fewer of our friends, family members and neighbors dying or becoming ill due to the…
