Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Takes issue with officials’ words
New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. (D-18) and Assemblyman Peter J. Barnes III (D-18) describe Gov. Chris Christie’s actions on the state budget as “simply wrong” (“Christie’s Action Raids School Funds, Raises Taxes,” Letters to the Editor, Sentinel, Feb. 25). They describe the funds as “not state funds” but “property taxes paid by…
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Showtime
Students in the Spotswood High School Drama Club rehearse a scene from “Kiss Me, Kate,” which will be performed at 7:30 p.m. March 18-20 and 2 p.m. March 21 at the high school on Summerhill Road. Tickets are $10; $6 for students and senior citizens. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above, Cast members rehearse March…
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When the government goes into debt, the people go into debt
Reports about mounting debt at all levels in the U.S. government have been growing at an alarming rate. From the federal level to the municipal level and everywhere in between, record levels of debt will eventually threaten the financial stability of our country. The people blame the politicians. They should blame themselves because the politicians…
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Reginald S. Thomas
Mr. Thomas, 70, of Monroe, died March 2, 2010, at home. He was director of women and minority small-business development at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he worked for 30 years. Surviving are his wife, Jean Catanese; a daughter, Tara Thomas of East Orange; two sons, Craig Weber of Nutley and Mark Catanese, and his…
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This trick would even make the Dog Whisperer jealous
Coda • GREG BEAN One of my favorite shows on television these days is “The Dog Whisperer” with Cesar Millan. Millan is a dog trainer and psychologist who has an uncanny ability to get inside a dog’s head and figure out what’s making him or her dysfunctional. And once he figures it out, he instinctively…
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“Nino” Labombarda
Mr. Labombarda, 67, of East Brunswick, died March 3, 2010, at home. Surviving are his wife, Maddalena Leone Labombarda; two sons, Joseph M. Labombarda, and his wife, Tracy, of Easton, Pa., and Michael G. Labombarda of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a daughter, Anna L. Seckular, and her husband, Corey, of Middletown; two brothers, Vincenzo Labombarda of Venezuela…
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Michael Periu Sr.
Mr. Periu, 66, of East Brunswick, died March 8, 2010. Surviving are his wife, Livia; two sons, Albert and Michael; a daughter-in-law, Raquel; his mother, Dora; a brother, Carlos; a brother-inlaw and sister-in-law, Joaquin and Zoila Montes; two granddaughters; and two nephews and a niece. A Mass was offered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, East Brunswick.…
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Olga Kowzun Zawadsky
Mrs. Zawadsky, 91, of Brick, formerly of South River, died March 5, 2010, in Ocean Medical Center, Brick. She was predeceased by her husband, James W. Zawadsky, and by a son, James W. Zawadsky Jr. Surviving are a niece, Paula Kowzun, and three nephews, Gregory, Edward and Michael Kowzun; and two greatnephews. A service was…
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James A. Michael
Mr. Michael, 71, of Old Bridge, died March 2, 2010, at home. Surviving are his wife, Alice Douglass Michael; a son, James Jr. of Monroe; a daughter, Meredith Offenberger of the Toms River section of Dover; a sister, Sharon Michael of Johnstown, N.Y.; and two grandsons. Services were held at Brunswick Memorial Home, East Brunswick.…
