Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Vo-Tech captures title in first year competing

    EAST BRUNSWICK — They went to watch and learn what a competition is all about. They never expected to win. But somehow the East Brunswick Vocational and Technical High School brought home first-place honors from the New Jersey Technical Athletic Council’s annual CheerleadingChampionshipCompetition in Sewell, Gloucester County. “We couldn’t believe we won. New kids on…

  • Assemblymen did nothing to avert fiscal difficulties

    Start making your list for the next state Assembly election. We already have two candidates who don’t deserve to be reelected: Patrick J. Diegan Jr. and Peter J. Barnes III, based on their letter to the editor, “Christie’s Action Raids School Funds, Raises Taxes,” in the Feb. 25 issue of the Sentinel. The state is…

  • Dorothy Dabkowski

    Mrs. Dabkowski, 80, of South River, died March 5, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was employed during World War II as a film inspector at E.I. DuPont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville. She was predeceased by her husband, Edward Dabkowski; a son, Gary Dabkowski; two sisters, Helen Hetko and…

  • Pearl T. Bartlinski Rusak

    Mrs. Rusak, 82, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 23, 2010, at home. She was predeceased by her husband, John; a daughter, Christine Prinkey; a sister, Frances; and two brothers, Joseph and Walter. Surviving are a daughter, Kathleen Alexander of East Brunswick; a brother, Thomas Kolacz, and his wife, Sue, of Marlboro; two aunts, Lottie Rossi,…

  • Cyril M. Chupko

    Mr. Chupko, 88, of Old Bridge, died March 2, 2010, at home. He was predeceased by his wife, Sophia Kendra Chupko; four brothers, Matthew, William, Stephen and Jack; and two sisters, Mary McGuire and Jane Hodgins. Surviving are three daughters, Janet Main of Old Bridge, Patricia Poulou, and her husband, Rick, of Jamison, Pa., and…

  • Middlesex communities still reeling from storm

    Weekend nor’easter brings blackouts, flooding, damage to many homes BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer The nor’easter that barreled through the area last weekend left thousands without power and caused widespread damage to homes and businesses due to heavy winds and flooding. A wooded area behind a building on Buckelew Avenue was flooded all the way…

  • Larger indicators should be installed

    East Brunswick intends to install cameras at the Route 18 and Tices Lane intersection. The goal is to get people to stop running red lights, thereby decreasing accidents (as well as raising revenue for the township). This would in fact create the hazard of rear-end collisions by drivers slamming on their brakes trying to avoid…

  • Student, school score big in T-shirt contest

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Troy Chartier-Vignapiano holds his award, surrounded by friends, family members and Aéropostale’s Scott Birnbaum (l). SOUTH RIVER — What makes thirdgrader Troy Chartier-Vignapiano smile? That was the question that the 9-year-old had to ask himself when he entered Aéropostale’s “P.S. What Makes You Smile” Tshirt design contest for third-, fourth-…