Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Alfred J. Sargente

    Mr. Sargente, 79, of South River, died Dec. 13, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a sales representative for Union County Floral Supply, Linden, for 18 years. Mr. Sargente served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. Surviving are his wife of 28 years, Gerri Smith Sargente; his children…

  • Bill Haberman

    Mr. Haberman, 70, of East Brunswick and formerly of Old Bridge, died Dec. 19, 2009, at home. Upon graduation from South River High School, he was drafted to play baseball for the Boston Red Sox but declined to attend Fordham University, where he graduated in 1961. Mr. Haberman was drafted to play baseball with the…

  • Communities have good reason to fight developer’s plan

    Ihave been following the fight in Helmetta with Kaplan Cos. wanting to change their planned adult community to a family community. Kaplan uses the excuse that 20 percent will be affordable housing and that only the three-bedroom units will have children that will add to the school population in Spotswood. If you believe this, I…

  • New zero-tolerance policy may change sports world

    Coda • GREG BEAN Isee this on television from time to time, and I think it’s a good idea. So here it is: Warning! Part of this column deals with adult subject matter— and that subject matter is sex. When I was growing up, we didn’t have any professional sports teams in our neck of…

  • Louis Bruno Jr.

    Mr. Bruno, 73, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 7, 2009. Surviving are his wife, Jane Windhorst Bruno; three sons, Paul, of East Brunswick and his fiancée, Suzette Johanesen, of Cedar Grove, Gary, and his wife, Lynne, of Doylestown, Pa., and Bob, and his wife, Linda, of Plainsboro; a daughter, Kathy, and her husband, Bob Raichel,…

  • Well-run TNR programs good for community

    The North Brunswick Humane Association (NBHA) applauds South River for its recent initiative to allow its Board of Health to form a Feral Cat Committee in order to improve the effectiveness of the town’s Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) efforts. Opponents of TNR often offer distortions about feral cats to scare the public away from TNR. However, TNR…

  • June Hourihan

    Mrs. Hourihan, 66, of Old Bridge, died Dec. 7, 2009, in Golden Living Center, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her husband, James Hourihan, and by a sister, Doris Reichenbach. Surviving are two children, Leroy Hourihan, and his wife, Patricia, of Elizabeth and Dorothea Eberle, and her husband, Thomas, of East Brunswick; two sisters, Lois…

  • Pauline Syslo Dopieralski

    Mrs. Dopieralski, 92, of Warwick, R.I., formerly of South River, died Dec. 8, 2009, in Kent Hospital, Warwick. Prior to her retirement, she was employed for many years as an aide and server at Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick. Her husband, Sigmund, died in 1969. She also was predeceased by four sisters, Balbina Skwira, Cecilia…