Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Your Turn

    Reader supports proposal to give driver’s license to residents who are illegal aliens Dennis Kahn Guest Column Dennis Kahn Guest Column Your opinion expressed in the March 16 editorial “A solid ‘no go’ to licenses for illegals” is going the wrong way down the street. Our state representative and voters should support Assemblyman Joseph Vas’…

  • Obituaries

    Joseph W. Lombardo Mr. Lombardo of North Brunswick, died March 24 at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he resided in North Brunswick for more than 50 years. He was employed for the U.S. Government at the Raritan Arsenal, Edison, and as directorate of technical operations at the Quality Assurance Division Program, Philadelphia, Pa., for 27…

  • Letters

    County panel works to honor, support veterans Hidden among the 100 veterans organizations throughout Middlesex County with membership in the thousands, there exists a very small, dedicated, relatively unknown group of 16 volunteer veterans, both male and female, whose sole purpose is to respond to the needs of the 55,535 veterans within the county. Members…

  • Parents hope final bell doesn’t sound for OLL

    Diocese considers closing school due to funding issues BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MILLTOWN – For Ann Marie Simons, attendance at Our Lady of Lourdes School is a family tradition. Simons, four siblings and her four children have all attended, and her granddaughter is currently a student at the school. If…

  • Letters

    Internship program should be revived I was very fortunate to be part of an educational South Brunswick Township initiative during the summers of 2001 and 2002. The Mayor’s Internship Program – created and developed by Mayor Debra Johnson – gave we, the interns, a great view into government as well as exposed us to the…

  • Schools Superintendent survives vote on contract

    N.B. school board says little on why Rimmer was almost let go BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer North Brunswick residents are angry over a closed session hearing conducted last week to decide Schools Superintendent Robert Rimmer’s future with the school district. The board voted 4-4 with one abstention to keep Rimmer…

  • AEDs now available in all So. Bruns. schools

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Each day, schools in the township see thousands of people pass in and out of their doors, and within each of them sits a heart that beats. Out of concern for these hearts, the district revealed at the March 13 Board of Education…

  • Rutgers professor leads class in science study

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer JENNIFER AMATO Rutgers University professor Cindy Hmelo-Silver (l) and Linwood Middle School science teacher Wendy Ford have collaborated for six years to create a respiratory and aquarium-based systems model program at the school. Seventh-graders Amanda Kotey (l) and Kinal Shah are responsible for the classroom’s fishtank.…

  • A solid ‘no go’ to licenses for illegals

    State representatives should reject a proposal put forth by Assembly-man Joseph Vas (D-Middlesex) that would, if signed into law, permit illegal aliens to drive legally in New Jersey. The bill would allow illegal aliens and other people who cannot comply with the state Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) six-point rule to drive in New Jersey and…