Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Efforts show that ordinary people can do remarkable things
After reading that the East Brunswick school budget was defeated by less than 32 votes, I was in total disbelief. Rather than send in my tirade about the indifference of the masses, I decided to share a story about a family that demonstrates the power of one and is making a difference in this world.…
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Time wasted on team prayer issue
I am now totally convinced that the lunatics are running the asylum. The East Brunswick Board of Education has won the case forbidding football coach Marcus Borden from any type of observance of the team’s before-game prayers. Just great. While these clowns are wasting their time on harmless things like team prayers, our property taxes…
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If gov. really wants to help residents, let him cut taxes
I could not believe my eyes when I saw Edna Gordon’s letter to the editor titled "Governor’s Actions Show Him To Be a Man of Great Courage" (Sentinel, April 17). She actually called our governor courageous. Is it courageous to threaten our children with closing state parks? Is it courageous to threaten New Jersey drivers…
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Ernest H. Jacobs
Mr. Jacobs, 91, of Monroe, formerly of Spotswood, died April 12, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1984, he was employed with Continental Can Co., Milltown. His wife, Wilma, died in 1993. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Majewski, and her husband, Raymond, of Monroe; a son, Ernest…
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Eileen Murphy Perdoni
Mrs. Perdoni, 78, of Helmetta, formerly of Jamesburg, died April 12, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by a son, John Perdoni III. Surviving are her husband, John Perdoni Jr.; two daughters, Eileen Dalrymple, and her husband, Richard, of Phillipsburg and Kathleen McDermott, and her husband, Hugh, of Monroe;…
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Virginia Kiernan O’Brien
Mrs. O’Brien, 71, of Charleston, S.C., formerly of East Brunswick, died April 15, 2008. Prior to her retirement, she worked for East Brunswick Township for 15 years. Surviving are her husband, Robert B. O’Brien; four children, Janet Alving, Caroline O’Hara, and her husband, Sean, Paul O’Brien, and his wife, Jennifer, and Jamie Myhre, and her…
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Ruling shows Board of Ed. made right call from start
Congratulations go to the East Brunswick Board of Education for what turned out to be the appropriate decision when, in August 2006, it chose to appeal a federal court ruling in the Marcus Borden case. The board had hoped to avoid costs of up to $100,000 to pay Borden’s attorney. Indeed, it would be an…
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Finally, a matter upon which we seem to agree
GREG BEAN Coda Iget letters. Man, do I get letters. And nothing I’ve written in recent memory got as many letters in the form of email messages as my recent column on Comcast and my misery over losing the History Channel when the company went all digital March 27. Most weeks, my e-mail is split…
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Guns and Bibles sure aren’t exclusive to flyover country
DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Red State/Blue State A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: Every now and then, folks out here in the bucolic Flyover Country Red States get…
