Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Time to take stand against warehouses

    Your Turn Jean E. Dvorak Guest Column Warehouse development near residential zoning brings an invasion of unwanted traffic and general annoyance to homeowners. This is particularly true in South Brunswick along Route 535, Cranbury-South River Road, and surrounding local roads. Yet, the township continues to encourage warehouse development. Farmlands along the so-called exit 8A corridor…

  • Professional advice you can take as the gospel

    Coda Greg Bean I never thought I’d come to the point in my life where I had any foolproof professional wisdom for my kids, at least any they’d listen to. But recently I had a conversation with one of my sons that made me realize there are a few things I’m fairly wise about, after…

  • Muralists celebrate S. Brunswick’s diversity

    BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer MELISSA CIFELLI The group portrait “Celebrating Diversity” by Crossroads North Middle School Art students. SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Picture perfect. Crossroads North Middle School art students recently unveiled their mural, a group portrait celebrating the diversity of the South Brunswick community. Art specialist and Crossroads North teacher…

  • Town must confine building to proper areas

    For those who were in on the planning process years ago, things are unfolding in South Brunswick just as they were designed. Recognizing that there was more green in industrial sites than corn stalks, zoning was put in place to encourage the growth of warehouses in the eastern portion of the township. These new tax…

  • Obituaries

    Patricia Howarth Muraszko Mrs. Muraszko, 64, of East Brunswick, died July 22 at home. She was a crossing guard in South River for 17 years. Surviving are her husband, Stanley; a son, Stanley of Norfolk, Va.; a daughter, Maryanne Schroeck of the Toms River section of Dover; four brothers, Joseph Howarth of North Brunswick, Richard…

  • No. Brunswick honors July scholar athletes

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer Nick Sidotti NORTH BRUNSWICK — Here are the boys of summer. The Department of Parks, Recreation & Community Services [DPRCS] announced Nick Sidotti and Eric Schwager as the July Scholar Athletes at the Township Council meeting on July 5. “We are proud of our students. This…

  • Letters

    The Friends of the North Brunswick Public Library have one purpose in mind — it is to help meet the growing and varied needs of our diverse community by supplementing the offerings of the library. On June 4 and 5, the Friends held its first-ever book sale on the grounds of the library. It was…