Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Residents urged to help ‘paint New Jersey red’

    As a local resident of Old Bridge, and a constituent of Middlesex County, I’m writing to ask all women, area residents, local businesses, schools and legislators to “go red” and wear something in that color Feb. 4. It is for a great cause. It is our second annual American Heart Association National Wear Red Day…

  • Digging out brings community together

    Kelly Sherrill Guest Column I live at Twin Oaks Court in Royal Oaks. We are tucked back here in Monmouth Junction, and even seasoned South Brunswickers can’t seem to remember just where we are. “I’m over behind Carkhuff’s,” I’ll say. They all agree heartily, yet have a confused look on their faces. But we are…

  • Gas tax hike would take care of parkway operations

    As the state legislature begins to brood over budget difficulties, Citizens Against Tolls is greatly concerned about the waste of multiple millions of dollars spent on collecting parkway tolls. These tolls are a tax on all New Jerseyans, whether they use this roadway or not. The cost of collectors’ salaries and benefits, management and administration…

  • Obituaries

    Jack “Giacomo” DiFresca Mr. DiFresca, 86, of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, died Jan. 6 at University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Potenza, Italy, he immigrated to the United States from Belgium in 1950, and resided in North Jersey and South Brunswick prior to moving to Monmouth Junction. He was employed in…