Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Complaint is wake-up call

    South Brunswick Repub-licans received a wake-up call this summer with a complaint filed by the state election commission. That complaint took the 1998 candidates to task for not having their reports filed accurately or on time. While it appears that the problems have been corrected, and that nothing nefarious was going on, it still can…

  • Guest Column Jordan Modell WTC survivor urges others to consider frailty of life

    Guest Column Jordan Modell WTC survivor urges others to consider frailty of life (Editor’s note: This letter was written Sept. 18.) Sometime around now last week, I was sitting in a conference room 250 feet from the 80th floor of the World Trade Center. Sometime around now last week, America was as naive as a…

  • Lack of master plan for town annoys resident

    The No. 1 problem facing North Brunswick is traffic congestion and overdevelopment. Now that construction is starting on the Routes 1 and 130 overpass, we’re going to have enough problems. I think it is the very height of irresponsibility for Township Council President Peggy Scarillo and Vice President Leo Ryan to fail to enact a…

  • Good luck, Mr. President in pursuing the terrorists

    Good luck, Mr. President in pursuing the terrorists Osama bin Laden, currently the most hunted, despicable terrorist of these times, has been rightfully declared by President George W. Bush to be "wanted — dead or alive," with a million-dollar reward on his head! On this past Sept. 11, this inhuman, horrendous creature and his fanatically…

  • ’Greatest generation’ would be proud of recent behavior

    Like most Americans, the past few weeks have been very trying. We are all trying to understand the motive and intentions of the people behind the crimes against all of us in New York City and Washington, D.C. While answers are still hard to find, I am proud to see what has happened since Sept.…

  • Otken speaks out about town’s attempts to take farm

    Week after week, William Hartko cannot seem to put his pen down. It is too bad everything he writes down does not have one ounce of truth in it. A couple weeks ago, Hartko said both parties will have to live with the judge’s decision [denying North Brunswick’s condemnation of the Otken farm]. It seems…

  • Mayor, council implored for senior housing

    I bought a lot and a house in Brunswick Knolls and moved to North Brunswick from New Brunswick in 1958. I am one of the co-founders of Engine Company No. 3, and was its first chief and held many offices since. I’m 83 years old and still active as the secretary-treasurer of the Bureau of…

  • ‘Homecoming Weekend’ renamed ‘Pride Weekend’

    Homecoming activities, including a bonfire, athletic contests, and the crowning of a king and queen, are all part of a uniquely American tradition. It was our feeling that this annual weekend, scheduled this year on Oct. 5-6, would serve as a particularly appropriate framework for a school/community response to the horrific events of Sept. 11.…

  • Chairman extends thanks to Unity Day supporters

    This year was especially meaningful for our annual Charlene Austin Community Unity Day. After contacting various departments at the township, it was felt we needed this day more than ever after the horrid events of Sept. 11. Our community needed to come together in unity, and indeed we did. An event of this caliber could…