Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Joseph J. Boka Sr.
Mr. Boka, 79, of North Brunswick, died Oct. 30, 2009, at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a warehouseman at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cranbury, for 23 years, retiring in 1996. He was predeceased by two daughters, Ann Marie and Marian Boka; and two brothers, John and Laszlo Boka. He is survived by his wife…
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Anita Harding Dalton
Mrs. Dalton, 95, of Monroe, died Oct. 16, 2009, at home. Her husband, the Hon. Thomas Dalton, died in 1990. Surviving are two daughters, Patricia Harding Dalton of New York City and Penny Gehrmann, and her husband, Thomas, of East Brunswick; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. A Mass was offered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, East…
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Public urged to get ready for hurricane season
With hurricane season underway, State Police Superintendent Colonel Rick Fuentes, Director of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM) would like to remind all New Jersey residents, as well as first the responder community, to plan and prepare for potential tropical summer storms. The hurricane season usually runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.…
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Another race where we picked the lesser evil
Coda • GREG BEAN In my home state of Wyoming at the dawn of the 20th century, there was a surfeit of what were politely referred to as “bachelor cowboys.” It wasn’t that these old boys didn’t like women; in fact, they loved them, every chance they got. The problem was that there just weren’t…
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Josefa Serrano Jamena
Mrs. Jamena, 93, of East Brunswick, died Oct. 18, 2009, at home. She was predeceased by her husband, Gregorio M. Jamena, and by a son, Gregorio Jr. Surviving are three sons, Platon Jamena, and his wife, Angelina, and Manuel Jamena, and his wife, Teresita, all of California, and Jose Jamena, and his wife, Rebecca, of…
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Many deserve thanks for success of Pancake Breakfast
Sunday morning, Oct. 18, 2009, dawned dark and dreary. It was raining a cold rain, and it was windblown. But if you walked into the Spotswood Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) on Daniel Road, great scents of the morning — brewing hot coffee, golden pancakes and sizzling bacon — were ready to greet you. At…
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Dorothy M. Hansen Morris
Mrs. Morris, 84, of East Brunswick, died Oct. 13, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1998, she was employed at Civic Center Pharmacy, East Brunswick, where she worked for 16 years. Before that, she worked for 17 years in the cafeteria at East Brunswick High School. Her…
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Price war could change the look of your library
Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, there weren’t many bookstores in our town. There were a couple of places where you could pick up paperbacks, but because they doubled as pool halls, cigar shops and betting parlors, we weren’t allowed to go in them. There was a store downtown that carried a…
