Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Senior housing developments getting out of hand in South Brunswick

    Please explain why the Democrats are destroying our town by converting all those big commercial and industrial properties to residential adult communities. This will only increase crowding, traffic and overall congestion as well as change the character of our town by putting houses on presently vacant and wooded acreage that’s not zoned for housing. The…

  • Nasty letters and name calling are out of line in North Brunswick

    Let me try to understand John Chiappetta’s logic: Because Dick Fowler took a job with the township, he’s now a "lapdog?" His letter offers no evidence to support this name calling. And Mr. Fowler doesn’t make $80,000; he earns $72,000 and receives no benefits from the town – some more errors in his letter. I…

  • Writer was wrong about N.B. plan to tape twp. council meetings

    I’m responding to Kathy Ruvolo’s letter. She claims to have listened to the tapes of a recent North Brunswick Township Council meeting. Well, I read the transcripts of that meeting and have to question how much she listened. She said "the Republican council never provided a starting date for televising" meetings. Well, Larry Baldini said…

  • Kendall Park resident praises PARC proposal

    With two children in school, I truly appreciate the excellence of South Brunswick’s educational re-sources. But schools are becoming more crowded and the cost of education is rising. Property taxes keep rising to pay for school operations and classroom construction. Monroe Township seems to have solved this problem by promoting the construction of age-qualified housing.…

  • Who’s kidding whom, Mr. Warsh?

    Who’s kidding whom, Mr. Warsh? South Brunswick residents will be amazed to read this week that NJTransit Executive Director Jeffrey Warsh believes most of South Brunswick residents favor the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex rail line and that it’s simply a governing body issue. To back up his argument he notes that only 82 of the township’s 27,000…

  • Resident praises Republicans for support of train station

    I am a commuter from South Brunswick who very much appreciates the hard work and leadership of Ted Van Hessen, Joe Del Guercio, and Dawn Smith in fighting for a train station on the main line for our town, and against the dreadful MOM rail link from the Shore area. While these Republican candidates for…

  • Youth group thanks all who aided them in fund raising

    The members of the Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church Youth Group would like to thank the Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad for the use of their building for our recent car washes, and also Cindy and Bobby Von Thun for donating the Mother’s Day flowers. In addition, we would like to thank members of our church…

  • MOM plan scores a victory T he controversial Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex rail project, proposed by NJ Transit, scored a major victory this week. State Assembly members voted to include the project in the Circle of Mobility legislation on May 25 by a margin of 2-1. The debate on the Assembly floor, however, did raise many questions that…

  • North Brunswick resident defends mayor, Township Council Isn’t it strange that JoAnn Riley sarcastically criticized a suggestion that a college degree has some value and at the same time informs us that her husband not only has a degree, but the degree includes two minors? So, Ms. Riley, what’s your point? That college isn’t important…