Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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State improvements helping
The improvements to two of New Jersey’s most dangerous intersections should help motorists travel more safely. The $83 million reconstruction of the Routes 1 and 130 intersection is moving to the second phase now, and is hoped to be completed by this time next year. That intersection was the most dangerous in the state, according…
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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. James F. Battle III, 75, of Hamilton died May 23 at Compassionate Care Hospice in Trenton. Born in Chicago, he served in the Army during World War…
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Art therapy program deserves continued state support
Balancing the state budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens — victims of domestic violence — is not only wrong, it’s unconscionable. Gov. James McGreevey has threatened to cut state funding to the Amanda’s Easel art therapy program offered by 180, Turning Lives Around (formerly The Women’s Center of Monmouth County). Without state…
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Don’t combine authorities; eliminate Highway Authority
Don’t combine authorities; eliminate Highway Authority Citizens Against Tolls has learned Gov. James E. McGreevey will soon present his plan to combine the New Jersey Highway and the New Jersey Turnpike authorities. Unless there is a significant cut in costs throughout the bureaucratic structure of these authorities, we do not see many reasons to proceed…
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Sixth-graders take trip to Gettysburg
Staff Writer By dave goldberg COURTESY OF LINWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL A cannon still stands ready on the historical Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. The photo was taken during a two-day trip to the site by Linwood Middle School’s sixth-graders. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Recently, 355 sixth-graders from the Linwood Middle School went on a two-day…
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Holiday perspective should change
Monday is Memorial Day. In recent years, this holiday to remember those who have lost their lives in the service of our country has been more of a recreational beginning to the summer season. The number of people attending various services has dwindled to almost nothing. It has become a holiday marked more by picnics…
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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. BETTE KATZ, 74, of Monroe, formerly of Old Bridge, died May 13 at home. Her husband, Julius, died in 1987. Surviving are two daughters, Janet of London…
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Resident says thanks for Gettysburg trip
I would like to commend the teachers and administrators of Linwood Middle School on the wonderful job they did putting together the sixth-grade overnight trip to Gettysburg, Pa. It is obvious that a tremendous amount of time and thought went into the meticulous planning of this terrific field trip. No detail was overlooked concerning the…
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Local driver outraged by ‘road rage’ incident
I arrived in the Garden State in the year 1970, due to my place of employment’s relocation. Commuting to work by car daily, my first observation was that rarely did most motorists use their directional signals. Yet, not to let this bug me, I rather looked upon this as a joke and imagined the motorist…
