Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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for the record
Milltown Mayor Gloria Bradford does not support the implementation of 17 furlough days for borough employees in the 2010 budget, as was suggested in a June 17 story. The mayor said she had hoped to avoid the need for any furlough days, and has advocated for the number to be less than 12 days.
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Practical advice for grads: once more into the breach
CODA GREG BEAN As happens every year at this time, we’ve heard a lot of graduation addresses filled with uplifting exhortations that basically come down to “be the best that you can be.” I think First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to graduating high school students in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood was the most moving of…
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Thinks governor’s plan can begin to lower taxes
The Christie Reform Agenda: Cap 2.5 is just what New Jersey needs to get property taxes under control. For far too long we’ve been the state labeled as having the highest property taxes in the nation due to the past decade of astronomical increases of 70 percent. The people of New Jersey can no longer…
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New Rt. 18 guardrails waste of taxpayer dollars
Has anyone noticed the new guardrails in the median along Route 18 below East Brunswick, continuing almost to the Garden State Parkway? It’s a huge waste of money. I have lived in East Brunswick 19 years and don’t ever recall a story of someone being killed or even injured because there was no guardrail there.…
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Join Christie to get Cap 2.5 on the ballot this November
Instead of sweeping our problems under the rug for the future, Gov. Chris Christie is changing the status quo in Trenton by setting a course to help make New Jersey affordable again. For nearly 30 years, Trenton politicians have ignored New Jersey taxpayers’ cries for relief. They’ve taxed us with an incredible 115 new increases…
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Eleanor T. Giordano De Luca
Mrs. De Luca, 83, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died May 31, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was employed with Sunshine Biscuit Co., Sayreville, where she worked for 23 years. Her husband, Arthur C. De Luca, died in 1996. Surviving are two daughters, Laura and…
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Margaret Anne Johnson
Mrs. Johnson, 91, of East Brunswick, died June 1, 2010, in Golden Living Center, Old Bridge. Surviving are a daughter, Jacqueline Lopardo, and her husband, Richard, of the Forked River section of Lacey; a sister, Rosemary Esposito, and her husband, Donald, of Tucson, Ariz.; two brothers, Peter Johnson, and his wife, Jean, of Levittown, N.Y.,…
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Helen M. Rosenberg Harmis
Mrs. Harmis, 90, of East Brunswick, died June 11, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Frank; a son, Keith, and his wife, Stacey, of Metuchen; a daughter, Harlene Chomko, and her husband, Nicholas, of Old Bridge; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Services were held…
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Robert P. Schuler Sr.
Mr. Schuler, 81, of Monroe, died June 8, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a computer operator with Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for 29 years. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Klinger Schuler; a son, Robert Schuler Jr., and his wife, Kim, of…
