Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • ‘Acres of farmland falling to warehouses and Wawas’

    Your Turn The Planning Board’s approval of a Wawa and gas station at the intersection of Deans-Rhode Hall Road and Cranbury South River Road is one more underscore to the township’s systematic destruction of a way of life for long-time residents in the immediate area. Despite the protests of residents and even some members of…

  • A somber toast for the coming year

    Coda Greg Bean When the United States entered World War II in 1941, my maternal grandfather — who was born in a homesteader’s sod hut in 1907 — was 34 years old. He had grown up a cowboy, ridden rodeo as a young man and taught in a one-room schoolhouse before he married my grandmother,…

  • Home for the holidays, and down with the flu

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch Even though we knew others were suffering through the flu season, we Clinches had been getting along just swimmingly. We avoided the sick, kept our distance from sniffle-toting children and applied antibacterial lotion at every turn We’d heard tales of woe from parents regarding late nights and doctor visits.…

  • Letters

    Greenstein I would like to express my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all those who supported me during the recent election. While there were many campaign staffers, local and county officials, and volunteers from the area Democratic organizations throughout the 14th District who played a vital role, I would be remiss if I didn’t thank…

  • Volunteers’ selfless acts made a difference

    It has become something of a tradition at the Sentinel that come the holidays, we highlight the good deeds of local residents and organizations in a series we call “People Who Make a Difference.” While all of the subjects of these stories deserve recognition, we can truly say that the two people profiled in this…

  • Don’t believe it, son. He’s making it all up

    Coda Greg Bean Over the years, I’ve made every member of my family and many of my friends cringe when I wrote about them in a column. For a long time, whenever I wrote about something one of them might consider embarrassing, I’d take the column home and read it to them before it went…

  • Make price, quality criteria for contracts

    It’s been described as “legalized political bribery,” and that’s exactly what it is. But unfortunately, the practice known as pay-to-play remains alive and well in the state of New Jersey, despite years of pleading from activists, politicians and ordinary citizens that the system be reformed. Several dozen towns in New Jersey and some counties have…