Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Local music academy staff member sets evening of opera
SPOTSWOOD — Lyric soprano Annamaria Stefanelli, a professional opera singer who teaches at the Academy of Music on Main Street, will perform with tenor Rory Angelicola in “An Evening of Italian Opera” June 11 at the Montclair Art Museum. The program, to begin at 8 p.m., will feature favorite operatic arias and duets by such…
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Victoria Kosciolek Slavinski
Mrs. Slavinski, 82, of Monroe, died May 29, 2010, in McCarrick Care Center, Somerset section of Franklin. Her husband, Edward Slavinski, died in 2006. Surviving are two daughters, Joanne Caladie, and her husband, Rich, of Monroe and Regina Diverio, and her husband, James, of Andover; a sister, Tessie Smith of Linden; and two grandchildren. A…
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Joseph J. Czajka
Mr. Czajka, 55, of Monroe, died May 24, 2010, at home. Surviving are his wife, Patricia; a sister, Cathy Czajka, and her fiancé, Robert Ruggiero; a sister-in-law, Diane Miele; a brotherin law, Ed Boyce; a brother-in-law and sister-inlaw, Ed and Sonya Miele; and many nieces and nephews. Private services were held at Freeman Funeral Home,…
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Marcelle Leposa
Mrs. Leposa, 95, of Milltown, died May 25, 2010, in CareOne at East Brunswick. Her husband, Nicholas Leposa, died in 1993. Surviving are two sisters, Therese Makosiej of Florida and Lorraine Kaminski of Delaware; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and greatnephews. A Mass was offered at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Milltown. Interment was in…
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Mildred Kalasin
Mrs. Kalasin, 91, of South River, died May 23, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Anthony Kalasin; a daughter, Theresa Marie; and a grandson, Angelo Guarrera. Surviving are four daughters, Antoinette Budrow of Easton, Pa., Charlene Subyak, and her husband, Joseph, of Manahawkin, Rosann Weaver, and…
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Willetta Reid Linke
Willetta Reid Linke, 79, of Jackson, formerly of Jamesburg and Kingstree, S.C., died May 26, 2010, in Care One at Jackson. She was employed for more than 20 years by Mendoker’s Quality Bakery, Jamesburg. She was predeceased by her husband, Calvin Linke, and by two sons, James and Charles Linke. Surviving are two daughters and…
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Thomas Kelly
Mr. Kelly, 95, of Holmdel, formerly of Old Bridge and Middletown, died May 24, 2010, in Bayshore Health Care Center, Holmdel. He was predeceased by his wife, Mabel Connelly Kelly, and by a son-in-law, Michael Welstead. Surviving are two daughters, Patricia Ann Byrne, and her husband, John J., of Belle Mead and Joan Ellen Kelly…
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Phyllis C. Scott Runkel
Mrs. Runkel, 78, of the Madison Park section of Old Bridge, died May 17, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she was employed for 20 years as a lunch aide and crossing guard with the Old Bridge Township Board of Education. Surviving are her husband, Ed Runkel; four…
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School support
Above: St. Bartholomew School student Clay Whittington participates in the school’s third annual Race for Education fundraiser in East Brunswick on May 19. Below: Students jog a quarter-mile area outside the school. JEFF GRANIT staff
