Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Marie Lamon

    Mrs. Lamon, 85, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 3, 2009, at home. Her husband, Joseph Lamon, died in 1987. Surviving are a son, Stephen Lamon of Weehawken; two daughters, Maureen O’Donnell of London and Jo- Ann Reccoppa, and her husband, Michael, of Old Bridge; two sisters, Nancy Pyne of Weehawken and Carmen DiRenzo of East…

  • James J. Murphy

    Mr. Murphy, 79, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, formerly of East Brunswick, died Feb. 6, 2009, in RaritanBayMedicalCenter, Old Bridge division. Surviving are three daughters, Gloria Murphy, Carol Neureuther, and her husband, Al, and Maureen Ocleppo, and her husband, Richard; a sister, Mary Blanchard; a brother, John Murphy; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and his…

  • John Daniel Kelly

    Mr. Kelly, 69, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 7, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Winifred Grady Kelly; three sons, John Martin Kelly of Louisville, Ky., Robert E. Kelly, and his wife, Therese, and Kenneth J. Kelly, all of Madison, Wis.; and two daughters, Kathryn Kelly of East Brunswick…

  • Joseph Maucione

    Mr. Maucione, 69, of Old Bridge, formerly of the Iselin section of Woodbridge, died Feb. 1, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was employed as an extruder operator with American Metal Moudling, Edison, where he worked for 23 years. Surviving are his wife, Dolores Maucione; a daughter, Christine Hellhake, and her…

  • Residents communicating concerns on trash

    This is an open letter to the mayor, the Township Council and the residents of East Brunswick. There has been a growing base of residents who have expressed concern regarding the proposed change in garbage service. There have been documented calls to township officials; blast e-mails; the establishment of an online community group — East…

  • Edward S. Janas

    Mr. Janas, 89, of the Melrose section of Sayreville, died Feb. 4, 2009, in Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice, Edison. Prior to his retirement in 1986, he was employed for 40 years as a carpenter through the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Milltown. Surviving are his wife, Stella Pelczar Janas; four sons, Joseph S.,…

  • Once-a-week pickup savings not worth it

    Iwould like to voice my opinion about the once-a-week garbage pickup Mayor David Stahl is proposing. I read that this would reduce the average tax per house by $20- $30 a year for a homeowner — that’s a savings of about 50 cents a week. I ask the people of East Brunswick to do the…

  • Flat tax to fund education would require all to pay their fair share

    We New Jersey citizens are living with a regressive tax, and it seems the state legislators can’t get together to correct the problem. Talk to any member of the Assembly or Senate, and they will agree that using our property tax to fund education is regressive and unfair. So why don’t they do something about…

  • Even the best ideas can have unintended consequences

    Coda • GREG BEAN I’ve written before about the law of unintended consequences, that whole thing where a butterfly flaps its wings in South America, and that minor disturbance sets off a chain reaction that ultimately results in a tsunami in Borneo. I saw a particularly interesting chain of unintended consequences during the last big…