Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Race for Education

    St. Bartholomew School student Brenna Colligan runs in the school’s third annual Race for Education fundraiser in East Brunswick May 19. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • This is a people problem, and not a dog problem

    CODA GREG BEAN The City Council in Garfield has backed off its misguided attempt to impose punitive restrictions on anyone who owns a pit bull. But that does not solve the problems for this misunderstood, and sometimes feared, breed of dogs in our state. The controversy started earlier this spring, when the council introduced an…

  • Urge legislators to restore homestead rebate

    AARP believes that taxes should be based on the ability to pay and that property taxes ought to be affordable. Under the proposed state budget for New Jersey, there will be no homestead property-tax rebates this year. Approximately 600,000 New Jersey residents will be affected, and for many, the loss of the propertytax rebate will…

  • Kyleigh’s Law presents dangers to young drivers

    This letter is in response to the letter to the editor written by Allan Barr about Kyleigh’s Law (Sentinel, May 13). I applaud Mr. Barr for writing about what so many of us are feeling. To display a red sticker as a way of identifying a young, new driver is an open invitation for a…

  • Why punish those who work hard, make money?

    Iam writing in response to William Flynn’s letter to the editor, “Renew ‘Millionaire’s Tax,’ Save Aid to Public Schools,” that appeared in the May 6 issue of the Sentinel. I will begin by writing that I do not claim to have loyalties to the Republican or the Democratic Party. My opinions are based on my…

  • Ann Morrow

    Mrs. Morrow, 75, of East Brunswick, died May 25, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 2000, she was employed as an office manager and cashier with Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, where she worked for 30 years. Surviving are her husband, John Morrow; two daughters, Jean Nicoletti, and her…

  • Teachers’ unions bear some blame for layoffs

    CODA GREG BEAN In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that my personal experience as a member of a labor union has been limited to twice, and both those sagas were frankly weird. The first time was in the early ’70s when I was trying to save money for college and hired on…

  • Governor’s awards recognize 23 staffers

    E.B. school district cites honorees’ passion, dedication, collaborative nature BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Hammarskjold Middle School’s Jessica Pepin and Catherine Segreto were among those recognized. EAST BRUNSWICK — The sound of noisemakers rattling and families cheering could be heard echoing down the halls of Churchill Junior High School on a recent Thursday evening. But…