• Brain Bee open to all high school students

    New Jersey high school students have an opportunity to prove their brainpower by competing in the 2012 Central New Jersey Regional Brain Bee. The contest, which is open to all New Jersey high school students in grades nine through 12, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 4 at UMDNJ-RobertWood Johnson Medical…

  • Local company’s drone intercepts Japanese whaling fleet

    Bayshore Recycling Corp.’s donation helps stop the slaughtering of whales Sea Shepherd security officer Jeffrey Milstein (l-r), pilot Christopher Aultman and Capt. Paul Watson stand in the hangar of the Sea Shepherd’s ship, the Steve Irwin, with the drone Nicole Montecalvo, donated by Bayshore Recycling Corp. of Woodbridge. The drone helped intercept a Japanese whaling…

  • Essay contest for S.B. middle schoolers

    The American Legion Safety Essay Contest, sponsored in South Brunswick by Post 401, is open to students who live in South Brunswick and are in sixth, seventh or eighth grade at a public, private or parochial school. The topic of the essay is “What Safety Means to Me.” The essay must be no fewer than…

  • PSE&G lowers natural gas bills

    PSE&G has announced that it is lowering residential gas bills by an additional 4.6 percent, or nearly $8.53 per winter month for the typical residential customer. The utility said the action represents the eighth decrease in a row for residential customers, for a total of more than $614, or 35 percent, in savings since January…

  • The heartbreak of family time texting (FTT)

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH I f there is one thing I’ve noticed lately, it’s the way that our family is plugged in. Not with extension cords protruding from our bodies as they reach into the nearest outlet, mind you, but heaven forbid that we don’t have the latest technological advancements within easy reach…

  • The stars are aligned

    DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS LIZZ DINNIGAN I n my youth, my family spent summers at the Pine Knoll bungalow colony in Monticello, N.Y., a small town in the heart of the Catskills’Borscht Belt. It was the late ’70s, and we had tremendous freedom to run around barefoot and scamper about our private community of small rental cottages.…

  • Much remains to be done to realize Dr. King’s dream

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had he lived, would have celebrated his 84th birthday this year. The vast political changes that have taken place since his assassination in 1968 are a testimony to the work of Dr. King and other activists of the modern Civil Rights movement. By the early 1970s, Southern segregation laws were…

  • Many offended by Lowe’s controversy

    The article titled “Muslims claim store hit new ‘Lowe’ with ad controversy” (Sentinel, Dec. 29) begins by saying, “Muslims across the country were dismayed …” The reporter makes an error which occurs all too often. I am not a Muslim. I am Jewish. I was deeply troubled by Lowe’s pulling their ads from “All-American Muslim.”…

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