Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Harold J. Velsor
Mr. Velsor, 83, of East Brunswick, died Jan. 19, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by a brother, Jack Velsor. Surviving are his wife, Frances Keskonis Velsor; five children, Janet Mc- Carron, and her husband, John, and Barbara Friedrich, and her husband William, all of Evanston, Ill., Carol Hampton of…
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Grateful to staff members for sensitivity to child’s allergy
Ifeel the need to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the staff at Kiddie Academy of East Brunswick for addressing a most important issue. My son Jake is an incredible child who has endured a lot in his three years of life. We have all dealt with a lot in our…
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Responsibility for safety falls on pedestrians, too
In response to the letter to the editor from Enrique Gonzalez Jr., “Drivers Must Yield Right of Way to Pedestrians” (Sentinel, Feb. 4), I most certainly understand that pedestrians have the right of way. What I don’t understand is why a pedestrian feels that he or she has the right of way in a parking…
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Looks like we survived the ‘storm of the decade’
Coda • GREG BEAN By the time this column sees print, the Great Blizzard of 2010, nicknamed “Snowpocalypse” by some creative member of the national press, will just be a memory. You know, before we moved to the East Coast, I used to believe that folks out here were scared of only one thing, and…
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Irene Ann Przybyla Wiamer
Mrs. Wiamer, 83, of Helmetta, formerly of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Jan. 26, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, John J. Wiamer Jr., died in 2006. Surviving are two daughters, Cynthia Walker, and her husband, Daniel, of Spotswood and Christine Wiamer, with whom she lived; two sisters, Lorraine…
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Joseph M. Malavet
Mr. Malavet, 83, of Middletown, died Jan. 20, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He is survived by his wife, Marie Malavet; a son and daughter-in-law, Gerald and Eileen Malavet of Farmingdale; two daughters and one son-in-law, Janet and Ralph Wilcox of Lawrenceville, and Michelle Malavet of East Brunswick; a sister, Gertrude Calvacca of…
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Robert Jerry Carlyle
Mr. Carlyle, 78, of Monroe, formerly of East Brunswick, died Jan. 30, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. His first wife, Harriet Haley Carlyle, died in 1984. Surviving are his wife, Marylyn Dietz Carlyle; three sons, Michael Carlyle, and his wife, Janet, of Wilbraham, Mass., David Carlyle, and his wife, Laura Day,…
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Alexander Uriwski
Mr. Uriwski, 68, of South River, died Jan. 16, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as bank teller with First National Bank, South River. He was predeceased by his parents, Iwan and Christina Uriwski. Surviving are a brother, Nicholas; four sisters, Luba, Nina, Maria and…
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Lawrence H. Zimmer, Ph.D.
Dr. Zimmer, 74, of East Brunswick, died Jan. 17, 2010. He was a full professor in the history department at Kean University, Union, for the past 45 years. Surviving are three children, Rebecca Shaiman, and her husband, Steve, of Livingston, Steven Zimmer, and his partner, Michael McGuire, of Mount Laurel, and Cynthia Forman, and her…
