• Stepping down, but grateful for privilege to have served

    As you know, I have decided not to seek another term on the Spotswood Board of Education. I have decided that nine years is enough, and it’s time for new thoughts and fresh ideas to move this wonderful school district to the next level. I would like to thank each of you for allowing me…

  • Displaced students should have a temporary playground

    As many of you in the East Brunswick community are well aware, the beloved Memorial School, which had a devastating fire this past summer, will most likely not be repaired because of the extensive damage done to it, and will instead be demolished and replaced. But unfortunately, the timeline for replacement of the new building…

  • ‘Victory’ over Borden not really gratifying

    What is so pleasing about suppressing someone who believes in God? Wow. What a victory. Eileen Kulcsar Monroe

  • Positive impact of park cannot be measured

    Iwould like to comment on the letter to the editor from Frank J. Coury (“On Economic Effect of Open Space Programs,” Sentinel, March 19) regarding the Heavenly Farms purchase. Mr. Coury has a number of issues that he repackages from time to time — the pistol range, the bus contract, the Golden Triangle. On most…

  • Silly season is over, and now it’s the Season of the Weird

    Coda • GREG BEAN It was the late, great Hunter S. Thompson who observed that “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” And these days, it looks like we’ve got a whole passel of people looking to shed their amateur rags and exchange them for the flashy professional variety. We have definitely entered…

  • The maddening, glorious times of our children’s lives

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH My friend’s child has just turned a year old. As the birthday girl licked the frosting off a flower cookie that didn’t look so much like a flower, my friend observed that she didn’t know where the last year had gone and then wondered, “Will the time always…

  • Cousins’community spirit recognized

    Teens form Breast Friends to help cancer patients BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Cousins Michael Ruane and Erika Rech formed a nonprofit to support families coping with a breast cancer diagnosis. MIDDLETOWN — Erika Rech and Michael Ruane formed Breast Friends Forever to help women and their families who were diagnosed with…

  • NOTES

    The kindergarten and first-grade classes at Navesink School, Middletown, recently took part in maple tree tapping at the school’s picnic area. The study of “Where Does Maple Syrup Come From?” began with a classroom discussion led by Betty Scharmann, of the Navesink Garden Club and co-chairwoman of the junior gardeners program at the school. Each…

  • Teen Arts Festival

    Clockwise from top: Devin Lane, Keyport High School, takes part in an art workshop during the Teen Arts Festival held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on March 20. Mater Dei High School seniors Maria Basile (l-r), Nicole Murphy and Alyson Osborn admire the work they created in a workshop during the two-day event that…

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