Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • 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…

  • Resident would welcome restoration of rail service

    I am a resident of Jamesburg for five years now, and I was pleased to find out that NJ Transit had plans to restore train service from Lakehurst to the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. I have also found out that the last time our town had train service was in 1962, when the…

  • Auxiliary’s scrapbooking party slated for Feb. 11

    Little Rocky Hill Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary will hold a scrapbooking party Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. at the firehouse at 4348 Route 27, Little Rocky Hill section of South Brunswick. Cost is $10, which includes materials and refreshments. Attendees should bring pictures for the scrapbook.

  • Law of the jungle applies at Judd Elementary School

    Students join scientists in Panama rain forest via live videoconference BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Fifth-grader Brendan Kingsley, 10, asks scientists, videoconferencing from Panama, a question at Judd Elementary School in North Brunswick, last Thursday. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Township elementary school students visited a rain forest on Jan. 27.…

  • Feds should leave state’s campaign finance laws alone

    As the Assembly sponsor of the bill that would codify former Gov. James McGreevey’s pay-to-play executive order into law, I also question the federal government’s reasoning in seeking to overturn our efforts to ensure the integrity of our state’s public contracting practices. The Bush administration has handed billions of dollars worth of no-bid contracts to…

  • Obituaries

    June A. Gallagher Mrs. Gallagher, 56, of Spotswood, died Jan. 15 at home. She was employed at Spotswood Hardware. Surviving are her husband, John S. Gallagher; her mother, Ruth McMurray Glenn of Salem, Ore; a brother, Russell Glenn of Burbank, Calif.; and her mother-in-law, Olympia S. Gallagher of North Brunswick. A memorial service was held…