Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • James D. Gourley

    Mr. Gourley, 88, of North Brunswick, died Sept. 8, 2009. He was a truck driver for 30 years at Midstate Oil Company, North Brunswick. He also worked several years for Middlesex County Road Department, and North Brunswick Township Water Department. He was an active member of the North Brunswick Fire Department Engine Company No. 1…

  • Dorothy Stetler Errickson Skillman

    Mrs. Skillman, 92, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, died Sept. 4, 2009. She resided in Monroe Township, prior to relocating to Dayton. She dedicated her life to the Errickson & Skillman Insurance Agency. She was predeceased by her husband, V. Leroy Skillman Jr. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and…

  • A new day is dawning in a place called Bizarreland

    Coda • GREG BEAN You’ll have to excuse me for a moment while I dab the drops of blood that are running down my cheeks. My eyeballs have been bleeding nonstop since the other night when I saw indicted former Republican Rep. Tom “The Hammer” DeLay cutting a rug on “Dancing With the Stars.” I…

  • Wants to put brakes on health-care plan

    This letter is in response to the letter to the editor from Rick Nemshick, “Urges Passage of Health-Care Reform,” which ran in the Sept. 3 issue of the Sentinel. “Some sort of health-care reform” can mean almost anything from wonderful to horrific. One should not be considered against reform just because one is against the…

  • Ashley Almazan Jose

    Mr. Jose, 32, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 14, 2009, in JFK Medical Center, Edison, as the result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Surviving are two children, Alexi Jose and Tristan Jian Carlo Jose; his parents, John and Catalina Almazan Jose of East Brunswick; a sister, Jennifer Kwock, and her husband, Jason, of…

  • Jean M. McLaren Volpe

    Mrs. Volpe, 83, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 21, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Her husband, Elwood Volpe, died in 2000. Surviving are a son, Craig Volpe, and his wife, Karen, of Orinda, Calif.; two daughters, Barbara Pagano, and her husband, Steven, of East Brunswick and Lynn Unice of Monroe; six…

  • Tamburro promotes cost-saving programs

    As a resident of Monroe, I am a supporter of Councilman Gerald Tamburro for reelection to the Monroe Township Council. He has been an outstanding councilman and has advocated for numerous programs that have made this town a great place to live. One of the buzzwords of local government these days is “shared services” as…

  • DEP again neglects responsibility to protect environment

    On behalf of the nonprofit Edison Wetlands Association (EWA), a state leader in toxic cleanups, I am deeply troubled by the recent report that yet again sheds light on the failure of the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The DEP’s mission is to protect our state’s environment, as entrusted by the families of New…

  • Carmela Spitaleri Gendlek

    Mrs. Gendlek, 91, of South River, died Sept. 12, 2009, at home. Her husband, Frank Gendlek, died in 1997. Surviving are a son, Francis J. Gendlek; and two grandchildren, Sara and Stephen Gendlek. Services were held at Maliszewski Funeral Home, South River. Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery, East Brunswick.