Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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,…

  • Doubts Klemp’s ability to be ‘independent’

    Donald Klemp announced that he would be running as an independent for mayor of East Brunswick this fall.H ow in the world can he even think he could be a mayor, when for 12 years as a Township Council member he was a yesman for Mayor Bill Neary? He never had a thought of his…

  • 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,…

  • Defeat of school budget demonstrates social irresponsibility

    So, once again, this time by a margin of 31 votes, the citizens of East Brunswick have spoken. They would rather go out to the diner a couple of times in the next 12 months instead of fully funding the school budget. Yeah, I know the arguments. Property taxes are an unfair way to fund…

  • Dealers were a testament to conspicuous consumption

    GREG BEAN Coda Back in the days when I was a court reporter, I covered the trial of a Colombian drug importer who had made a fortune bringing South American cocaine to this country and selling it to more-than-willing clients. The feds busted him, not after a long undercover investigation, but after an angry ex-employee…

  • Individuals can work together to keep gas prices low

    As we all know, the price of gas is getting higher all over the United States. What can we do to keep it low? Are there any solutions to keeping prices low? My answer is yes. Together, we can keep gas prices low if we can: • walk more, drive less; • take mass transit…