Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • 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…

  • Seniors will feel the sting of tax increases

    Coda Greg Bean In my neighborhood of East Bruns-wick, there are several elderly women and men struggling to get by. Most of these wonderful people have lived in the community for most of their adult lives. They raised their families there in modest houses. And after the kids moved away and their partners died, they…

  • Letters

    Ancestor defends family name against slave holding I’d like to respond to a recent article’s assumption that people with roads named after them were slave owners (“Researcher dedicated to S.B.’s history of slavery,” March 2). The Christopher C. Beekman family raised four brothers in a French-roofed house on the corner of 27 and (now) Sand…

  • 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…

  • When a loss is a win

    Temple organizing interfaith weight-loss competition BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer For The Biggest Loser Competition at B’Nai Tikvah on Finnegans Lane, Activities Vice President Cindy Gittleman will donate $5 for every pound Temple President Dan Greenberg loses by September. NORTH BRUNSWICK – How can the biggest loser become the biggest winner?…

  • Parents ask board to scrap realignment plan

    Say some of the student numbers the move is based on are flawed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Township parents asked the Board of Education Monday to reconsider a plan to move 35 children attending Cambridge School to Constable School, both which are located in Kendall Park. Two…

  • There’s no saying like an old saying

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch I called my mother last week to tell her that I seriously needed one of her infamous speeches for a teenager who thinks his mom is lame. “It’s not that I want him to nominate me for any awards or recognition,” I told her, “but a little nod in…

  • Letters

    Developments would make dangerous stretch of road worse Page 16 of this past week’s (Feb. 23) Sentinel sadly posted two separate articles reporting fatal accidents. Both ironically occurred on Route 1, just south of Aaron Road. To make matters worse, we can expect more traffic on Route 1, as an alternative to the New Jersey…