Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Residents asked to pledge to Strong Kids Campaign

    Next week the South Brunswick Family YMCA will formally launch the 2004 Strong Kids Campaign. Our 2004 Strong Kids Campaign will support vital community programs. This year’s Strong Kids Campaign will be launched with the ambitious goal of raising $50,000 to help provide financial assistance to participants in need, increase program diversity and help offset…

  • Lack of security on Election Day disturbs resident

    I am writing you with a concern I had here in North Brunswick on election day. I live in District 2 and went to vote at the Judd School. My disappointment is with the way the school was just left wide open for anyone to enter and vote or use voting as a way to…

  • ‘Set-aside’ program needs to be resurrected

    As a woman entrepreneur in New Jersey and the president of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO), I am keeping a close eye on the possible comeback of the state’s “set-aside” program. This program has helped women and minority vendors to win millions of dollars in prime contracts awarded by the state.…

  • Thanks to supporters of blood drive

    South Brunswick’s Blood Bank committee would like to say thanks to 152 donors who came to our recent blood donor drive. We appreciate their giving us part of a moderately nice Saturday; 132 units of much-needed blood were collected. But we’re hopeful even more folks will join us April 16 at the community center. We…

  • U.S. shouldn’t depend on others for vaccine

    I just can’t believe our latest fiasco concerning the flu vaccine is in high gear. Worried and sick residents wait all hours of the morning to get a ticket for the vaccine, just to be told that the tickets are exhausted. This has happened in a certain drugstore and a food store. Our residents are…

  • Indian Fields praised for Halloween social effort

    Indian Fields Elementary School PTO held its annual Halloween social event Oct. 29. For this event, the PTO relies on family members of our students to volunteer for major events. We have a haunted hallway, crafts, dancing, a photo booth and face painting. The event attracted almost 750 students and adults. While this event happens…

  • Honoree thankful to reside and work in great town

    North Brunswick held its 225th gala anniversary celebration at the East Brunswick Hilton on Oct. 22. This gala was chaired by Michael Hritz. All those who attended, I am sure, will agree it was a most memorable evening. The mayors were acknowledged — from Mayor Fred Hermann, Mayor George Luke, Mayor Kenneth Rupprecht, Mayor Fred…

  • Obituaries

    Joseph M. Koenig Mr. Koenig, 78, of East Windsor, formerly of South River and Sayreville, died Oct. 15 in University Medical Center at Princeton. He was a chemical operator for 25 years with National Lead, Sayreville. Surviving are his wife, Lorraine Litkowski Koenig; two sons, Mark Koenig of East Windsor and Mitchell Koenig of Pittston,…