Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Leave ‘little beasties’ alone to solve cat problem

    With reference to Ms. Jennifer Kohlhepp’s interesting article on the managed and vaccinated feral cat colony in North Brunswick, it’s intriguing the complaints against the colony could not be documented, nor could it be proven the cats complained about were from the cat colony. Yet — with these unverified complaints — the animals are doomed,…

  • Help temperature rise on library’s thermometer

    The temperature is rising. Join us to help it rise to the top of our library expansion thermometer. The Friends of the South Brunswick Public Library has pledged $25,000 to name the new young adult area that will be created by the library expansion. You may be an integral part of our commitment to the…

  • Obituaries

    Cecilia Konieczko Bachley Obituaries Cecilia Konieczko Bachley Mrs. Bachley, 89, of North Brunswick died May 8 at home. Born in Bayonne, she resided there prior to moving to North Brunswick one year ago. She was a coil winder at Western Electric Co., Kearny, for 20 years, retiring in 1976. She was a member of the…

  • Gas prices are sucking us dry

    Gas prices are sucking us dry Gasoline prices continue to climb to unbelievable heights as the holiday weekend approaches. The Memorial Day weekend is the traditional kickoff of the summer season, a time when beachgoers inch their cars down crowded highways to overtake the Jersey Shore. It is also a time when gasoline prices begin…

  • Stroke survivor urges women to learn personal risk factors

    I’m a survivor. I’m a survivor of two major strokes — one at age 30 and a second stroke this past March 2, at age 38. As the single mother of two, a New Jersey resident, and a New Jersey survivor spokeswoman for the American Heart Association Go Red for Women campaign and the American…

  • Raiders softball team returns to winning form

    BY GEORGE ALBANOStaff Writer BY GEORGE ALBANO Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Above, North Brunswick’s Tara Cruz scoops up a late throw during a recent game against JFK in North Brunswick, while at right, catcher Leigh Elko chases JFK’s Ashley Jaye in a rundown. NORTH BRUNSWICK — It appears as if the North…

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries Bertha Kobesto Bertha Kobesto Mrs. Kobesto, 79, of Spotswood, formerly of Sayreville, died May 5 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she was employed by Decorative Metals, Milltown, and worked as a health aide with the Visiting Nurse Association, North Brunswick. Her husband, Andrew Kobesto, died in 1962.…

  • Live and let purr

    Live and let purr North Brunswick should leave the cat colony on Route 1 alone. Township officials said this week they will enforce a July 1 deadline to have the remaining 25 cats in the feral colony behind the Ramada Inn removed. Officials said they plan to go in and remove whatever cats are left…

  • MCC proposes 9.5 percent tuition hike

    Freeholder says he will push college to bring that number down BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer MCC proposes 9.5 percent tuition hike BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer A proposed 9.5 percent tuition hike for Middlesex County College students was met with stiff resistance from Freeholder Director David B. Crabiel last week. The college’s board of trustees…