Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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In long battle over shaky degrees, taxpayers suffer
Coda • GREG BEAN The interminable dispute in the Freehold Regional High School District over administrators and teachers who got ginned-up degrees from an unaccredited and highly suspicious online diploma mill just won’t go away. Regular readers know the saga of the tale’s most highly visible player, FRHSD Superintendent of Schools James Wasser, who got…
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Helen Csabay
Ms. Csabay (also known as Coabey), 94, of South River, died Nov. 19, 2009, at home. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a machine operator at DuPont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville. She was predeceased by three brothers, John, Louis and Joseph; and by a sister, Margaret Csabay. Surviving are a sister, Anne…
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It’s time to stop using property taxes to fund education
Another year has gone by and yet nothing has been done by our elected legislators to correct the unfair, and perhaps illegal, practice of funding primary and secondary education with a portion of property taxes. Why has nothing been done? Are our legislators indifferent to the problems this practice causes to the most needy? I…
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Lois L. Krieger, Esq.
Ms. Krieger, 57, of Plainsboro, formerly of East Brunswick, died Nov. 13, 2009, at home. She was a senior attorney of the Community Health Law Project, South Orange. Surviving are her parents, Estelle and Sidney Krieger of East Brunswick; a sister, Karen Krieger of Spring, Texas; a brother, Dr. Lawrence Krieger, and his wife, Jeannette,…
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Pauline A. Pagnani
Mrs. Pagnani, 88, of the Madison Park section of Old Bridge, died Nov. 12, 2009, in Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a hairdresser for 35 years, most recently at Carousel Salon, East Brunswick. Her husband, Francis J. Pagnani, died in 1975. She also was predeceased by two…
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Dorothy G. Cornell
Mrs. Cornell, 82, of South River, died Nov. 19, 2009, in Summerhill Nursing Home, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement in 1989, she was employed as a bus driver for the South Brunswick Board of Education. She was predeceased by her husband, Peter Cornell; a brother, George “Butch” O’Brien; and a grandson, Gene Cornell. Surviving…
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That’s a big hole to fill, so he’d better get shoveling
Coda • GREG BEAN It sure didn’t take our governorelect long to start looking like someone had whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, did it? There he was on the news last week after a meeting with the state treasury people, saying that things are even worse than he imagined. What everyone was…
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Grateful to all who made event successful
On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Rotary Club of South River- East Brunswick, in conjunction with Pedals for Progress, held a bicycle and sewingmachine collection at East Brunswick High School. We are happy to say that we collected 49 bicycles, five sewing machines and funds that will help ship them to Nicaragua. The purpose of this…
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