Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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DOT needs to approve pedestrian improvements in Kingston Village Does the Department of Transportation (DOT) put New Jersey’s communities first? We’re not sure. Case in point: the small, historic village of Kingston. We’ve requested some modest pedestrian improvements: lifting a no-parking restriction on the northbound side of Route 27 (our Main Street), pedestrian safety stanchions,…
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Calling a place smokefree and allowing smoking eliminate protection More than 1,800 New Jersey nonsmokers die each year from diseases caused by breathing secondhand tobacco smoke. The U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency has estimated that exposure to tobacco smoke increases a nonsmoker’s chance of getting lung cancer by 20 percent. The EPA also declared tobacco smoke…
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King’s Highway nomination deserving of high praise T his is an exciting time for South Brunswick and four of the township’s close neighbors, Franklin, Princeton and Lawrence townships and Princeton Borough. Three years ago, concerns about the future of a historic 10-mile stretch of routes 27 and 206, from Kingston in South Bruns-wick to Lawrence,…
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for the record Former North Brunswick Board of Education member Fred Manning is an employee at Business Edge Solutions, Edison, not Business Edge Group, North Brunswick, as indicated in an article in the April 13 Sentinel.
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Barrett committed to labor as well as SB Congratulations to South Brunswick Councilwoman Carol Barrett who received the Hubert H. Humphrey Friend of Labor Award on April 30 at the East Brunswick Hilton. It was an honor for Carol to receive this plaque which recognizes her commitment to labor as well as to her community.…
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North Brunswick mayor responds to council candidate’s criticism It hasn’t taken Democratic council candidate Francis Womack much time to show the kind of campaign he plans to run. His first letter to the editor since announcing his candidacy is misleading and untruthful. I don’t know if these are Mr. Womack’s qualities or from the guidance…
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Thomas Earley family thankful for the strong outpouring of support Iwould like to write an open letter to the individuals and agencies who so lovingly supported my family through my husband Capt. Thomas P. Earley’s battle with prostate cancer and in the months since we lost the man who was the center of our world.…
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Riley and Rush view crowding “sc01p1_lg.jpg” width=”250″ height=”175″ border=”0″ alt=””> U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley and Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) speak to seventh-grade student Jeff Feiler in one of the portable classrooms at Crossroads Middle School in South Brunswick during a visit last week. Riley visited the township to view the overcrowding in the…
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Corbin is elected head of school board by 6-2 vote Goldstein elected vice president in split vote By craig yetsko Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — New officers were elected to the Board of Education during its reorganization Tuesday. In close votes, Connie Corbin was elected president of the board while Rita Goldstein received the nod…
