Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • State should punch ticket for transit village

    North Brunswick residents should get on board the movement to build a Northeast Corridor Line train station in town. With the master plan review coming up, Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack and members of the Township Council have named the conversion of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) property to a transit village a top priority. The…

  • End parkway tolls and save motorists millions

    It takes a bureaucracy of more than 800 people to collect Garden State Parkway tolls. This total includes a pro-rata share of E-ZPass personnel. Imagine if each state highway had such a bureaucracy. Toll collecting is a 24/7 operation, so the costly toll-collection operation must be in place even at 3 a.m., when traffic is…

  • No. Brunswick mayor, council hold power to preserve Pulda farm

    I find curious many of the statements in the Jan. 6 Sentinel front-page article about “Development a top concern for 2005.” These include “The master plan process allows us to direct and limit new development,” “Womack encouraged residents to reflect on preserving open space,” and “what to do with vacant properties such as the Johnson…

  • Senior praises ‘Tea for Two’ program

    This past year I suffered from an illness, vertigo, which kept me homebound a good bit of the time. In fact, despite the support of family and friends I had a lot of time on my hands, time that was difficult to fill. As the frequency of the vertigo attacks decreased, I started to go…

  • America’s soldiers have put forth a tremendous effort

    Richard ‘Rick’ Brody Guest Column I would like to share with your readers my recent experience attending the presidential inaugural in Washington, D.C. I was invited along with others from my veterans organization, Veterans of the Vietnam War and The Veterans Coalition, to attend the “Salute to Heroes” veterans ball following the inauguration ceremonies. It…

  • ‘Days of Mayor Dobin have long passed’

    It has come to my attention that Riya Finnegans LLC is proposing to construct an Eckerd drugstore, two office buildings and commercial space at the corner of Route 27 and Finnegans Lane. We will hear all the arguments of increased traffic, unsightly buildings, unwanted pollution and congestion, but the real key to this proposal are…

  • Obituaries

    Thomas J. Johnston Mr. Johnston, 64, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 24 at home. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Johnston; two sons, Thomas Johnston of Bridgewater and Gregory Johnston of South Brunswick; a daughter, Ellen Amen of East Brunswick; and two grandchildren, Erica Amen and Zachary Johnston. Services were held at Rezem Funeral Home, East…