Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Coda

    Attorney general says: Stealing gas a bad idea GREG BEAN Coda So, N.J. Attorney General Anne Milgram, who grew up in East Brunswick, says her office will file criminal charges against government employees believed to have stolen gasoline from public agencies. Here’s my question: It’s a good idea, but why have they waited so long?…

  • Gerald P. O’Sullivan

    Mr. O’Sullivan, 73, of East Brunswick, died May 28, 2008, at home. Surviving are his wife, Patricia Carroll O’Sullivan; five children, Patricia Williams, and her husband, Robert, of the Iselin section of Woodbridge, Sean O’Sullivan, and his wife, Janet, of Howell, Julie Murphy, and her husband, Bud, of East Brunswick, Eileen Regester, and her husband,…

  • Anne B. Click Farrell

    Mrs. Farrell, 86, of East Brunswick, died June 4, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her first husband, Michael Cheosky, and by her second husband, William Farrell. Surviving are a daughter, Michele Jabin, and her husband, Arnold, of East Brunswick; a son, Frank Farrell Weber, and his wife, Joann,…

  • Frank F. Jacobs

    Mr. Jacobs, 81, of Old Bridge, formerly of Spotswood, died May 13, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1988, he was employed at the State Home for Boys (later the New Jersey Training School for Boys), Monroe, where he worked for 25 years. Surviving are his wife, Lee…

  • Clarice Shafnacker

    Ms. Shafnacker, 99, of FortWashington, Pa., formerly of Sayreville, died June 1, 2008. Prior to her retirement in 1971, she was employed for 40 years as a schoolteacher with the South River Board of Education. She was predeceased by four brothers, Frederick, Joseph, Frank andWilliam, and by a sister,Alice. Surviving are many nieces and nephews.AMass…

  • Rose M. Sacca Mazur

    Mrs. Mazur, 82, of Sayreville, died June 1, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a production worker at Insul-Coustic, Sayreville. Her husband, Edward F. Mazur, died in 1996, and a daughter, Frances, died in 1958. Surviving are two daughters, Edna Good, and her friend,…

  • Elizabeth “Betty” Allen Toti

    Mrs. Toti, 78, of East Brunswick, died May 27, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, Gerardo, died in 1993. Surviving are two sons, Jerry, and his wife, Eileen, and Michael, and his wife, Debra, all of East Brunswick; two sisters, Patricia Pisano, and her husband, John, of Belleville and Judy Frank,…

  • Flag touches, inspires, speaks to Americans

    Flag Day is June 14, and as we take time to behold the beauty of this red, white and blue symbol of our nation, I am reminded of how the warmth of that torch can touch each of us as individuals, as family and as a nation. It touches us and calls out to us.…

  • Lorraine M. Szymanski Romatowski

    Mrs. Romatowski, 73, of the Toms River section of Dover, formerly of East Brunswick, died May 31, 2008, in Community Medical Center, Toms River. Surviving are her husband, Chester Romatowski; two daughters, Helen Schmidt, and her husband, Richard, of Tarpon Springs, Fla., and Barbara Romatowski of Toms River; a brother, Stanley Szymanski, and his wife,…