Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Schoolhouse rock
No. Bruns. students spend 24 continuous hours on rocking chairs for charity BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Freshman Nikki Karas tries to stay awake by watching movies during the North Brunswick Township High School’s 21st annual Rock-A-Thon to raise money for the food bank and pediatric cancer this…
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One less neighbor in Warehouseville
Who says you can’t fight city hall? In a vote that was stunning not only for its outcome but its speed, the South Brunswick Planning Board denied an application to build a 1.8 million-square-foot warehouse complex on Davidsons Mill and Cranbury-South River roads last week. The 4-4 decision showed that now and then, an informed…
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Take part in J&J proposal
Tonight, North Brunswick residents have a rare opportunity to take part in a process that could shape their town’s dynamic for a long time. We urge them to take it. From 6:30-9 p.m., the first in a series of public hearings will take place regarding the future of the over 200-acre Johnson & Johnson site…
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Cheney was too slow in accepting the blame
Coda Greg Bean I was 6 years old when I shot my grandfather in the back with an arrow. Ours was a hunting culture, and I’d been along on hunting trips since I was old enough to walk. This, however, was the first time I’d been in the field with anything more deadly than a…
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A new empty nester shows no mercy
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch My good friend, Karen, is about to become an empty nester. She’s anticipating TV time, empty laundry baskets, and if what she says is really true, her days of compositions and sentence structure are coming to an end. Meanwhile, I’m still choking on solar systems and adverbs. Karen’s buying…
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Letters
Residents are to blame for debris scattered in streets Around 7:30-8 a.m. the morning of Feb. 17, I walked through my neighborhood as usual. I saw many instances of careless placement of bottles and papers. Some papers were loose, some bottles spilling, and all being scattered! There are tipped over plastic bags of recyclables emptying…
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Obituaries
Regina M. Sheehan Moser Mrs. Moser, 66, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 20 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Staten Island, N.Y., prior to moving to East Brunswick 28 years ago. She was a data clerk in the pediatric infectious disease unit at Robert Wood Johnson…
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For the Record
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will hold a symposium on the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials on Feb. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in Trayes Hall in the Douglass College Center on George Street in New Brunswick. A separate program featuring composer Osvaldo Golijov will…
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Weight of indictments is dragging Merla down
Coda Greg Bean For those of you who are interested, the federal indictment against Keyport Mayor John Merla is now up to 18 pages. Merla, as most people in Monmouth County know by now, was indicted again last week by U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie — this time on a new corruption charge for allegedly…
