Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Grateful to voters, concerned about low turnout
Iwould like to sincerely thank the voters of South River for giving me the opportunity to serve a third term on the South River Board of Education. As chairperson of the Finance Committee, I would also like to thank those who voted to pass our budget. Unfortunately, as a board member, a parent and a…
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Gee, that candy looks good enough to smoke
Coda • GREG BEAN My favorite line from the recent presidential campaign was Barack Obama explaining his youthful experimentation with mind-altering chemicals. “When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid,” he said. That resonated with me, in large part because there was plenty of stupidity in my own misspent youth. Here, for…
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Ruth Alice Dinkel
Mrs. Dinkel, 97, of Cape Coral, Fla., formerly of Spotswood, died April 10, 2009. Her husband, Louis Dinkel, died in 1994. Surviving are two daughters and their spouses, Nancy and John Longwith of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Sharon and John Maibauer of Cape Coral; a sister, Alice Leach of Plainsboro; a brother, Herbert O’Brien of…
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Evelyn M. Hatfield Kotora
Mrs. Kotora, 77, of Spotswood, formerly of Old Bridge, died April 11, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She taught kindergarten Sunday school for 17 years at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Old Bridge. Surviving are her husband, Joseph G. Kotora; two sons, Joseph G. Kotora, and his wife, Sheryl,…
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Thomas J. Aldrich
Mr. Aldrich, 77, of New Brunswick, died April 7, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement several years ago, he was employed as a bartender at Dominic’s Restaurant, New Brunswick. Surviving are a brother, Robert Aldrich of New Brunswick; three sisters, Lucy Pellicane of Edison, Harriet “Peggy” Criss of…
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Peter Schellhammer
Mr. Schellhammer, 61, of North Brunswick, died April 9, 2009, at home. He resided in Milltown, prior to relocating to North Brunswick in 1973. He was an assembler at Drive Technology, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, for more than 10 years. Prior to that, he was an engineer at IBM for more than 20…
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Gale Pabish Brown
Mrs. Brown, 54, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died April 3, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. A son, Jonathan R. Brown, died in 2008. Surviving are her husband, Frederic; a daughter, Crissy Paster, and her husband, Brett, of Cliffwood Beach; a sister, Karen Scarloto of Galloway; and three…
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Dorothy R. Gehling Niedzwiecki
Mrs. Niedzwiecki, 70, of Spotswood, formerly of Monroe, died April 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as a computer operator with the Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority, where she worked for 17 years. Before that, she was a computer operator with the…
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Theresa Oder
Ms. Oder, 92, of South River, died April 14, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a machine operator with M&M Sportswear, South River, where she worked for 47 years. She was predeceased by a sister, Anna Horvath, and by six brothers, Joseph,…
