Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Gurney Thomas Landers

    Mr. Landers, 85, of South River, diedMarch 30, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. His wife, Stacia Arciszewski Landers, died in 2003, and a stepson, Kenneth Kalafor, died in 2007. Surviving are a sister-inlaw, ConnieApel; and four nieces and nephews, Vincent J. Gostkowski, Jeffrey Gostkowski, Lorretta Gostkowski and Rosemary Hauge. Services were…

  • Elsie A. Pugliese

    Mrs. Pugliese, 65, of East Brunswick, died March 30, 2008, in JFK Medical Center, Edison. Prior to her retirement, she was employed at T.J. Maxx, East Brunswick, where she worked for 15 years. Her husband, Joseph M. Pugliese, died in 2001. Surviving are four daughters, Jerri Lazar of the Whitehouse Station section of Readington, Gigi…

  • Elizabeth “Betty” Demling Genard

    Mrs. Genard, 90, of South River, died April 9, 2008, at home. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a seamstress in South River and later as a factory worker with Johnson and Johnson Personal Products, Milltown. Surviving are two children, Joseph Genard and Mary Ann Bunch, both of South River; three grandchildren, Michael Bunch,…

  • Mary Labasik Andolsek

    Mrs. Andolsek, 96, formerly of East Brunswick, died March 24, 2008, in Cranbury Center, Monroe. Her husband, John “Curley” Andolsek, died in 1990. Surviving are a son, Ray Andolsek, and his wife, Jane, of Monroe; two grandchildren, John Andolsek, and his wife, Ellen, of Santa Fe, N.M., and Diane Andolsek, and her partner, Andrea Weatherhead,…

  • John J. Moore

    Mr. Moore, 78, of Spotswood, died March 31, 2008, in Raritan BayMedical Center, Old Bridge division. He was predeceased by a son, John Jr. Surviving are his wife,MadelineMartensMoore; six children, William of Wallington, Madeline of Lawrenceburg, Ind., Thomas of Lodi, James, and his wife, Kathleen, of Middletown, N.Y., Mark of Spotswood and Joseph, and his…

  • Joseph B. McDonald

    Mr.McDonald, 90, of Monroe, formerly of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick, died March 20, 2008, in the Merwick Unit, Princeton. Surviving are his wife, Anne F.Morio McDonald; two daughters and sons-in-law, Brigette and Fred Herrmann and Colleen and Bob Kacerosky; and five grandchildren.AMass was offered at St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, Kendall Park.…

  • Redevelopment can benefit economic interests, restore waterfront

    For thousands of New Jerseyans like me, interaction with the Raritan River is limited to the simple act of driving over it during rush hour. Bridging North Jersey and South Jersey, the Garden State Parkway’s Driscoll Bridge rises high above the Raritan. Many of us remember this location for its infamous legacy – the horrid…

  • Stanley J. Smykaj

    Mr. Smykaj, 79, of South River, died March 22, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1992, he was employed for 37 years as a health, physical education and drivers education teacher with the South River Board of Education. Surviving are his wife, Irene Sitkowski Smykaj; four children,…

  • Happy to see Neary, Klemp opt out of race

    I read with delight that East Brunswick Mayor William Neary will not be running for re-election. Finally, something to cheer about. Unfortunately, we will still be stuck with him until the end of the year, so he can still continue to screw up the Toll Brothers "Transit City" and also the Heavenly Farms project. Our…