Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Mayor ‘disingenuous’ with Pulda farm rezoning
I am very disappointed to see how disingenuous Mayor Francis “Mac” Womack can be with regard to the rezoning of the Pulda farm. To imply that just a few people want to increase their property values by building mansions on the Pulda farm is an insult to anyone who has attended the meetings regarding this…
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Mayor not listening to residents on farm issue
On a recent television interview, North Brunswick Mayor Francis Womack made a shameful, transparent, underhanded and desperate move to manipulate the truth and the media. On camera, the mayor questioned the integrity of the citizens group, North Brunswick Residents Against High Density Housing (NBRAHDH), a group with a petition signed by 880 citizens opposed to…
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McGreevey broke promise to remove parkway tolls
Gov. James McGreevey is bragging widely about his supposed accomplishment of taking tolls down on the Garden State Parkway. Not true! Follow-up on this story discloses that the governor is removing some booths at the Asbury Park and Raritan toll plazas, and converting the remaining booths to one-way tolls at 70 cents each. Citizens Against…
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Obituaries
William J. Shivey Mr. Shivey, 50, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, died Sept. 6 at The New York University Medical Center, New York City. Born in Bayonne, he resided in New Brunswick for 11 years, prior to moving to Dayton five years ago. He was a senior consultant system analyst at Advance Technology…
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Resident proposes a compromise on farm
How sad to know prominent members of our community prefer to classify North Brunswick as a “middle-class town,” and thereby make decisions to decrease property values — rather than strive to make it the best it can be. There is no doubt high-density housing constructed in one of the more desirable sections of North Brunswick…
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Obituaries
Obituaries Frank Tartanella Sr. Mr. Tartanella, 84, of East Brunswick, died Aug. 29 at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center, New Brunswick. Born in Newark, he resided in Irvington prior to moving to East Brunswick 42 years ago. He was the retired proprietor of the Country Fresh Deli, Milltown, for several years. He served with…
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Farm buy would require creativity
Republican Township Council candidates joined the North Brunswick Residents Against High Density Housing (NBRAHDH) last week in their opposition to the recent rezoning of the Pulda farm to allow a planned adult community, and in favor of saving the land. But it’s a situation far more complex than saying you prefer 70 acres of pristine…
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Holocaust Center urges action to avert genocide in Sudan
For the first time in its history, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has declared a Genocide Emergency, saying that genocide is imminent or is actually happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. More than 2 million people are being affected by a campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by…
