Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • To solve the mystery, you have to look at history

    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 GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: Over the years, I’ve read your columns about the punishing…

  • Governor at war with smaller communities

    Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to withhold state aid from small towns is an egregious abuse of executive power. Without any legislative input and without any effort to take the public’s views into account, Corzine has unilaterally declared war on New Jersey’s smaller municipalities. The purpose of this ill-begotten crusade is no less than to wipe…

  • Mildred “Millie” Stone Wind

    Mildred “Millie” Stone Wind Mrs. Wind, 93, of the Clearwater community in Spotswood, died Feb. 29, 2008, in University Medical Center at Princeton. She worked for the Irving Raphael Bus Co., East Brunswick, as an aide on a special-needs bus route, until 2006. Her husband, Conrad Wind, died in 1974. Surviving are three children, Everett…

  • James P. McCarty

    Mr. McCarty, 84, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 12, 2008, in JFK Medical Center, Edison. He was predeceased by his first wife, Mary Constance McCarty. Surviving are his wife, Ann Ryan Mellilo McCarty; two sons, James P. Mc- Carty of Lyndhurst and Christopher McCarty of Edison; two daughters, Lorena Verdesco of Old Bridge and Michelle…

  • Anthony Baratta

    Mr. Baratta, 97, of Monroe Village in Monroe, died March 10, 2008, at home. His wife, Elizabeth Sargent Baratta, died in 2003. Surviving are a daughter, Lynne D. Venetucci, and her husband, Robert, of Monroe; a sister, Josephine Denike of Garfield; three grandchildren; and one nephew. Arrangements were under the direction of M. David DeMarco…

  • Arthur Cabrera

    Mr. Cabrera, 83, of East Brunswick, died March 10, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his wife, Irene Ackermann Cabrera, in 2000, and by a grandson, Joaquin Ennes Cabrera, in 1994. Surviving are six sons and four daughters-in-law, Arthur Cabrera Jr. of Brooklyn, N.Y., Frank and Janet Cabrera…

  • E.B. school tab carries lowest increase in years

    Board looks to hire 12 new teachers, keep tax rate hike to 6.9 cents BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education is proposing a single-digit increase in the school tax rate, the first in several years. “This is the lowest tax increase in at least 10 years,” said School Administrator…

  • Edward Richard Weisenbach

    Mr. Weisenbach, 80, of East Brunswick, died March 12, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was an operations officers for the East Brunswick Township Office of Emergency Management. He was predeceased by his wife, Helen Dorofachuk Weisenbach, and by a daughter, Cheryl Weisenbach. Surviving are three sons, Jay A. Weisenbach, and his…

  • Gutsy governor did the right thing, at his own political peril

    Jon Corzine is my nominee for a Profile in Courage. The governor has given New Jerseyans the disastrous facts about the state’s finances. He has presented his unpopular plans to help turn the picture around. Some politicians are telling us there are much easier solutions because that’s what we want to hear and because it…