Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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This year, let’s resolve to make a difference
Coda • • GREG BEAN I gave up making New Year’s resolutions a long time ago, because I never kept them, and I got tired of starting my new year with personal failure. But as our economy begins to heal and we feel the glimmer of optimism as a new decade begins, it might be…
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Susan Swiat Yorke, Ph.D.
Dr. Yorke, 42, of Monroe, died Dec. 30, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her father, Mathew Swiat, died in January 2009. Surviving are her mother, Barbara Prusicki Swiat; two brothers, Mathew Swiat, and his wife, Rachael, and Jonathan Swiat; two nephews; and her fiancé, Jeff Mason. A funeral liturgy was offered at…
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Questions AARP’s support of health care bill
Over the last few months I have read a few letters to the editor from Sy Larson, AARP state president, regarding health-care reform affecting seniors and some myths he believes are misleading. Well, the first myth I would challengeMr. Larson on is his statement that AARP is nonpartisan. AARP is a very partisan organization. It…
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Task force would help students with brain injury
The New Jersey Legislature is considering the development of a task force that would help develop best practices for education professionals who work with students with traumatic brain injury. The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey respectfully calls on the state Legislature and the governor to approve of this Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury…
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Ever want to slap a landlord? Apparently we do.
Bloopers • At this time every year, we like to look back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into a few of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the year. • ADELE YOUNG Damning with faint praise One of our Word on the Street respondents…
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Lois Bowne
Mrs. Bowne, 83, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 15, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she and her late husband, Monroe Bowne, owned and operated a number of businesses, including the Bowne Agency in East Brunswick and The Summerhill Inn in Spotswood. She is survived by her children,…
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Calls for full, immediate enforcement of snow removal law
Guest Column • • Anita Clavering Almost two weeks ago on Dec. 19, the entire Eastern Seaboard was affected by a massive snowstorm. Up to 18 inches of snow fell on Middlesex County and the surrounding areas alone. After the snowstorm, people around me complained about the snow not being plowed out well and that…
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Robert E. Brown
Mr. Brown, 77, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 11, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was a plan administrator for I.U.O.E. Local 25, Marine Division, for 30 years. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. In 2001, a grandson, Maximillian Edward Honl, predeceased him. Surviving are his wife of 42…
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Frank “Moe” Majewski
Mr. Majewski, 84, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 14, 2009, at home. Prior to retiring, he was an ice cream salesman for Pennsupreme Ice Cream Co, Lancaster, Pa., where he worked for 23 years. He was a World War II Army veteran and a member of the South River Veterans of Foreign War. He was…
