Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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New principal sees bright future for St. Bart’s School
BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — With his years of law enforcement experience combined with a love of being an educator, Principal John Donza hopes to help St. Bartholomew School become the finest in its diocese. “I was actually a teacher before I joined the Port Authority Police Department. When I left there…
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Gregory A. Miller
Mr. Miller, 49, of East Brunswick, died Jan. 21, 2011, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1996, he was employed as a manager at Suzie Mac, East Brunswick. He was predeceased by his father, Frank J. Miller. Surviving are his wife, Marie Barron Miller; a daughter, Theresa Zaabadick, and…
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Concerned that ‘politics as usual’ will continue in South River
The new year is normally a time of renewal and hope. Many often take the opportunity to leave the shortcomings of the past in the past and renew their goals and enthusiasm for the coming year. Unfortunately, the borough’s annual reorganization on Jan. 1 was a clear sounding bell that in South River, 2011 will…
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Anne Marie Carlisle
Mrs. Carlisle, 69, of Manalapan, died Jan. 27, 2011. Prior to retiring in 2006, she worked in the mortgage department of Weichert Real Estate, Shrewsbury. She was predeceased by three siblings, Robert, Harold and Margaret. Mrs. Carlisle is survived by her husband, Raymond; three sons and a daughter-in-law, Raymond of Manalapan, Robert of Freehold, and…
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Salvatore Samuel “Jim” Vacchio Sr.
Mr. Vacchio, 78, of Monroe, formerly of South River, died Jan. 27, 2011, at home. Prior to his retirement, hewas employed with South River Metal Products, where he worked for 42 years. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Firestine Vacchio; two sons, Salvatore, and his wife, Michelle, of the Somerset section of Franklin and Jim, and…
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Mayor should not blame others for cost to change firms
I t is pathetic how at a recent Township Council meeting our mayor tried to blame the newly elected council members for the cost to do the right thing, which is to change the lawyers for the upcoming Toll Brothers deal. If Mayor David Stahl’s administration had done the deal right in the first place,…
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Charles S. Wieczorek
Mr. Wieczorek, 81, of South River, died Dec. 29, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was employed as a parts handler with Electrolux Corp., Edison, where he worked for 40 years. He was predeceased by two brothers, Edmund and Leon Wieczorek. Surviving are two sisters…
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Do officials not see state of downtown area, economy?
Why is there this ongoing scamin SouthRiver to use the school budget as a way of artificially inflating property values? Are the borough’s politicians completely blind to the depressed downtown area and the current economic state of the country? Where in South River is there an expanding demographic of professionals with full-time, $90,000-plus jobs (other…
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Veronica R. Gaylord Williams
Mrs. Williams, 86, of South River, died Jan. 4, 2011, in Summer Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her husband, John S. Williams. Surviving are two sons, Steven J. Williams, and his wife, Diane, of Toms River and James J. Williams, and his wife, Alane, of North Brunswick; two daughters, Eileen…
