Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Successful candidates offer thanks

    We would like to thank the voters of Spotswood for their participation in last week’s election. The vote count shows that your vote does make a difference. Only 54 votes separated the candidates, top to bottom. We are honored and humbled to have been selected to continue to serve you. A special thanks to all…

  • Honor memory, lives of men and women in uniform

    An HBO television miniseries, “The Pacific,” was on for the past 10 weeks, and after watching it, I really do think that people in Middlesex County, New Jersey and the country should really give thought to what our men and women in uniform have done for this country. Every Memorial Day weekend the memory of…

  • Charles E. Meade Sr.

    Mr. Meade, 81, died May 17, 2010, at the Cranbury Center Nursing Home, Monroe. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had resided in Spotswood since 1954. Mr. Meade was the chief executive officer of Aquatic Service Inc., Spotswood, which he founded in 1950. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, where he served…

  • Raymond Meade Beyer

    Mr. Beyer, 67, died May 21, 2010, at Southern Ocean County Hospital. Born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Mr. Meyer lived in East Brunswick, Winston-Salem, N.C., New Canaan, Conn. and Lewiston, N.Y., before moving to Little Egg Harbor. He had a long career in corporate administration with NY Telephone, Johnson & Johnson, Sara Lee Corp., Sunshine…

  • Miguel A. Vazquez

    Mr. Vazquez, 82, of Helmetta, died May 14, 2010, at his home. Born in Puerto Rico, he had lived in New York before settling in Helmetta in 1991. He retired in 2006 after 45 years with Pfingst and Co. Inc., South Plainfield. He was a communicant of St. James Catholic Church, Jamesburg. Mr. Vazquez was…

  • Louis A. Foleno, Ed.D.

    Dr. Foleno, 75, of New Brunswick, formerly of East Brunswick and Milltown, died May 16, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was an educator, most recently at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Drexler Foleno; two sons, Tony of New York…

  • Wilbur “Wib” R. Dias

    Mr. Dias, 74, of Spotswood, formerly of Old Bridge, died May 12, 2010, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1996, he was employed as an assembly line worker with Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for more than 30 years. He was predeceased by a brother, Ralph Dias, and by a sister, Wanda…

  • Mary Travaglini Placco

    Mrs. Placco, 88, of East Brunswick, formerly of South River and Monroe, died May 11, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Vincent D. Placco, and by four siblings, Thomas, Santa, Theresa and Celia. Surviving are a son, Vincent Placco Jr., and his wife, Sherri, of Flemington;…

  • Lynne C. Koch

    Ms. Koch, 29, of East Brunswick, died May 6, 2010, at home. She was predeceased by a brother, Cpl. Steven R. Koch, and by her grandfathers, William Koch Sr. and Robert Glassen. Surviving are her parents, William Koch Jr. and Christine Glassen Koch of East Brunswick; a brother, William Koch III of the Somerset section…