Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Television’s the medium, but what’s the message?

    CODA GREG BEAN Let me set the scene: It’s a long-ago Saturday evening. Great-Grandma, Great- Grandpa, Grandma and Grandpa are coming to dinner at our house. My bride has been cooking all day. The wee bairns are bathed and tidied, their cowlicks plastered down, and they have been warned to be on their best behavior.…

  • John L. Pleva

    Mr. Pleva, of East Brunswick, formerly of South River, died March 10, 2011, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1980, he was employed as a welder for Hercules/Aqualon, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 35 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Ann. Surviving are two daughters,…

  • Monroe officials saddened over proposed departure

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer MONROE — The Board of Education held a special meeting March 15 regarding its budget and the future of its send-receive relationship with Jamesburg. Monroe originally sought to charge Jamesburg a tuition rate of $18,933, but that was reduced to $16,100 in conjunction with the Middlesex County executive superintendent’s office.…

  • Roy Ellison

    Mr. Ellison, 92, of East Brunswick, formerly of SouthAmboy, died March 8, 2011, in CareOne at East Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1983, he was employed as a foreman at Hercules Inc., Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 35 years. After that, he worked for 25 years at Chestnut Hill Cemetery, East…

  • Carl P. Baron Sr.

    Mr. Baron, 88, of South River, died March 15, 2011, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. Prior to his retirement in 1986, he was employed as a millwright with National Lead Industries, Sayreville, where he worked for 39 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Lottie Burek Baron; a son, Robert Baron; a brother, John Baron;…

  • Matthew “Poncho” Chionchio

    Mr. Chionchio, 69, formerly of Sayreville, died March 14, 2011, in Palace Gardens Assisted Living, Homestead, Fla. Prior to his retirement in 1998, he was employed for nine years as a school custodian for the East Brunswick Board of Education. Before that, he worked for more than 20 years as school custodian at Our Lady…

  • Elizabeth “Pat” Righetti

    Mrs. Righetti, 91, of East Brunswick, formerly of South River, died March 13, 2011, at the Maryland home of her daughter. She was predeceased by her husband, John. Surviving are a daughter, Karen Bartol, and her husband, John, of Bel Air, Md.; a brother, Joseph Patrick, and his wife, Frances, of East Brunswick; two sisters,…

  • Monroe board urges state to act on tenure

    Boards would rule on renewal of an employee’s tenure every 3-5 years BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer The Monroe Township Board of Education is throwing its support behind the movement to bring about tenure reform. The board voted March 3 in favor of a resolution that describes the existing lifetime tenure system as “costly, disruptive…

  • Candidate concerned about fairness of forum questions

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer MILLTOWN — A Board of Education candidate is raising a possible concern of bias as next week’s candidates’ forum approaches. Frank Amato, who sat on the board in the early 1990s, is one of six candidates running for the three available terms in April. The other candidates are incumbents Vincent…