Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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Wife expresses thanks for school’s remembrance of ‘Mr. Hot Dog’
Wife expresses thanks for school’s remembrance of ‘Mr. Hot Dog’ I would like to thank the North Brunswick Township High School Booster Club for placing a sign in honor of my late husband on the school’s snack shack. The sign, "Joseph Fritsche Raider Hut," is an honor to my husband, and to name this special…
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Obituaries
ELSA E. WAPPLER KNELLER, 91, of North Brunswick died Nov. 26 at Rose Mountain Care Center, New Brunswick. Born in Germany, she lived in Clifton and Whiting before moving to North Brunswick in 1985. She worked in the cafeteria at Clifton High School for 20 years, retiring in 1973. She was a member of the…
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Where is the report?
Where is the report? In February 2001, former NJ Transit Executive Director Jeffrey Warsh promised to deliver a report to South Brunswick Township, state officials and the press. We are all still waiting. The report was completed in November 2000, according to documents on NJ Transit’s Internet site. The report looks at the feasibility of…
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Guest Column
Diane LeonardCommission chair leaps to defense of township Diane Leonard Commission chair leaps to defense of township’s trees Trees, sidewalks and the conflict between public safety and the benefits mature trees bring to our township are a problem all towns must revisit from time to time. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service,…
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Guest Column
Kenneth O Kenneth O’Dowd Resident rebuts writer’s opinions on war with Iraq I am writing in response to Michael Lavroff’s letter of Nov. 14 ("War provides only way to end Iraq’s ‘cat-and-mouse’ game"). There are a number of statements and assertions in that letter I take issue with, but the one that seems to me…
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MOM hearings needed
Members of the public will finally get a chance next week to voice their opinions on the controversial Mon-mouth-Ocean-Middlesex rail line proposal by NJ Transit. Three scoping hearings will be held in each of the counties that the proposed line will travel through. The $400 million plan will link Lakehurst in Ocean County to either…
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Guest Column
Maria KotunTown should keep nose out of Slack-Carroll debacle Maria Kotun Town should keep nose out of Slack-Carroll debacle A member of the Dayton Village Citizens’ Coalition presented the South Brunswick Township Council with a progress report on the Slack-Carroll property in Dayton on Oct. 22. Pursuant to this report, the coalition member and the…
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Obituaries
Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. DOROTHY NERLING WATSON, 70, of Santa Fe, Texas, and formerly North Brunswick, died Nov. 14 at home. Born in New Brunswick, she had lived in North Brunswick…
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Obituaries
Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. EDWIN J. SNEDIKER JR., 62, North Brunswick died Nov. 16 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in New Brunswick, he resided before moving to…
