Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Move to shut down library unfortunate, but necessary
It’s a sad state of affairs when a town is so hamstrung by ridiculous state laws that it will consider doing away with a valuable program. That’s the case in Jamesburg, where borough officials plan to hold a referendum asking voters’ permission to shut down the public library in favor of using Monroe Township’s facility.…
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In some marriages, there’s nothing like a close shave
GREG BEAN Coda Today, as part of my occasional series of columns on marital relationships, I’d like to discuss an issue of some interest to both sexes. Specifically, I’d like to talk about shaving. More specifically, I’d like to talk about men’s razors, and men’s territorial interest in keeping them to themselves and keeping them…
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Veteran dismayed by termination of meetings at library
As a taxpayer in East Brunswick, a patron of The Friends of the Library in East Brunswick and adjutant of AMVETS (American Veterans) Post No. 34 in East Brunswick, I find it necessary to write this letter, and I sincerely hope that every citizen in East Brunswick and the surrounding communities reads it. AMVETS Post…
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Has right to advocate for responsible budgets
I have never written a letter to the editor, but I could not pass up the opportunity after reading Bonny Berger Kelter’s letter, "Would Anti- Budget Seniors Have Once Supported School Tab?," in the July 10 issue of the Sentinel. Kelter’s hypocrisy and selfinterest are striking. The same partisanship that she decries in seniors who…
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Robert Mahler
Mr. Mahler, 72, of East Brunswick, died July 2, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. A photographer, he owned Creative Energy Associates, East Brunswick, for the past 30 years. He served as head of the East Brunswick Traffic Advisory Board, a member of the Middlesex County Transportation Coordinating Committee and secretary of…
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How much should residents have to pay for education?
I’m writing this because I am amazed at how much money we are expected to pay for education in our state. I live in a nice town with good, friendly people in it, so I enjoy living here. The township is East Brunswick, and the taxes are high. They say the reason is because of…
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Mary J. Pepsin
Ms. Pepsin, 82, of South River, died July 8, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she was a seamstress in the South River garment industry. She was predeceased by three brothers, John, Michael and Thomas Pepsin, and by two sisters, Helen Daury and Pauline Lucarelli. Surviving are three…
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Kathleen McHugh Brautigan
Mrs. Brautigan, 77, of East Brunswick, died July 8, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, John J. Brautigan, died in 2006, and a son-in-law, Patrick Raviola, died earlier this year. Surviving are three sons, Bernard Brautigan, and his wife, Margaret, of East Brunswick, John, and his fiancée, Fay, of Buffalo, N.Y.,…
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Longina Zacharkievic Brylewski
Mrs. Brylewski, 85, of Hollywood, Fla., formerly of South River, died July 7, 2008, in Kindred Medical Center, Hollywood. Her husband, Wladamir Brylewski, died in 2002. Surviving are a brother, Andrej Zacharkievic of Belarus; two sisters, Helena Zacharkievic and Nina Brylevskaja, both of Lithuania; and many cousins. A service was held at St. Euphrosynia Belarus…
