Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Conflict of interest on TNR, animal control

    In response to David Blumig’s letter (Disputes claims that studies show TNR to be successful, Sentinel, July 30, 2009) about TNR [trap-neuter-release] not being effective: Blumig takes exception with using TNR as animal control. Well, I am not surprised that he does. Blumig is an animal control officer and his family runs Blumig Kennel. They…

  • Board returns principal to middle school

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer SOUTH RIVER — After a month and a half on administrative leave, Middle School Principal Richard S. Sternberg returned to his position on Monday. The Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 28 in favor of a resolution for Sternberg’s return; however, the decision calls for withholding his salary increment for…

  • Questions wisdom of call to dissolve sewerage panel

    Who wants to break up the sewerage authority in East Brunswick? The same people who brought us the pistol range (closing because it’s losing money)? The Golden Triangle? We all know about that one. A cultural center? I thought it was a place to keep tractors. Our once-a-week garbage pickup? I’m considering buying a boat…

  • Helmetta man teaching in Republic of Georgia

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Miles Vidreiro has a picture taken with students in his English class in the Republic of Georgia, where he is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer. HELMETTA — A borough native has found himself, at the age of 22, teaching English in what may seem like an unlikely place ……

  • Drivers must yield right of way to pedestrians

    I would like to respond to Taj Ahmad’s letter to the editor, “Pedestrians Should Be More Alert When Crossing” (Sentinel, Jan. 21).   Although pedestrians should stop and look before crossing the street, Mr. Ahmad failed to mention that by law, pedestrians have the right of way. Drivers must stop to let pedestrians cross the…

  • Victor H. Durler

    Mr. Durler, 90, of Somerville, formerly of East Brunswick, died Jan. 1, 2010. Prior to his retirement in 1982, he was employed as a salesman and then as manager of the assurance department at Oakite Corp., Metuchen, where he worked for 35 years. His wife Loretta, died in 1986. Surviving are two daughters, Vicki K.…

  • Preserving farm for open space would be a winner

    Coda • GREG BEAN When we bought our old house in East Brunswick in the fall of 1997, one of the biggest selling points was the fact that we could look out our living room window to the Foerter Farm across the road. The farm — a 30-acre parcel between Riva Avenue and Farrington Lake…

  • Anne M. Anniccharico Toms

    Mrs. Toms, 83, of Helmetta, formerly of Spotswood, died Jan. 19. 2010. She was predeceased by her husband, William Toms, and by a brother, Lorenzo Anniccharico. Surviving are two sons, William Toms, and his wife, Mary Beth, of the Perrineville section of Millstone and Michael Toms, and his wife, Valerie, of Bradley Beach; and four…

  • 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,…