YMCA feeding at the public trough
      What in heaven's name has Dave Crabiel and the duly elected freeholders of Middlesex County so interested in the goings-on of a south county YMCA that they're going to provide county taxpayer money to the tune of $3 million toward a planned $4.5 million expansion project?
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Thanks to supporters of Stamp Out Hunger
      One full truckload of food was brought into the South Brunswick Food Pantry May 12 after a very successful Stamp Out Hunger campaign was held by the Kendall Park Post Office. We would like to thank all of the letter carriers who on top of their busy day stopped to pick up all of the food left by t...
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Problems in N.B. are deeper than budget
      There was some very interesting reading on page 4 of the Sentinel (May 1 issue), maybe even frightening reading is a better description.
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Farm should be used for ratables, not more housing
      Judging by a letter to the editor in the Sentinel, William Pulda is not about to be intimidated by a distant relative about the nostalgic sentiment concerning the farm he has lived on all his life. Clearly he supports Edgewood Properties with the development of his 70-acre North Brunswick farm.
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Paper trail on votes comes to sad conclusion in Congress
      Long before we enter our voting booth on Nov. 4, we should contemplate as to whether or not our vote will actually be recorded with integrity. Congressman Rush Holt's bill, "Emergency Assistance for Secure Election Act of 2008," was just defeated.
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Going 'green' doesn't require onerous, exotic programs
      The "green" momentum is growing in the Garden State and throughout the nation; however, local governments and some developers are hesitant to embrace "green" strategies because of concerns over cost and the process of implementation. Some would like to explore green practices but do not know where...
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Media focus should be on vets, not Spears, Hilton
      With America entering the sixth year of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our television news, which includes CBS, ABC, NBC as well as their cable affiliates, mentions the number of dead, which recently hit 4,000, but fails to report the plight of the thousands of wounded, some critical, lying in ...
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