Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Wants to see reports on air quality
Irecently read that Dr. Adrian Barnett, who is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia, found that air pollution created by trucks and cars causes children, very early in a woman’s pregnancy, to be smaller and in poor health. Based on his findings, should residents living along the Route 18 corridor through East Brunswick…
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Spotswood school tab brings no tax increase
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – In nearly every New Jersey community in recent years, the annual school budgets have become synonymous with tax increases. Not this year in Spotswood. Board of Education President Alan Bartlett said that due to the vastly increased general state aid the school district expects to receive, the 2008-09…
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Trustees’ behavior necessitates intense public scrutiny
The trustees who represent the controlling faction of the South River Public Library are deliberately limiting the library’s hours of operation, and in doing so, are not fully supporting literacy in the community, for which they have received state-mandated funds from the municipal government. The consequences of their actions have not only resulted in lack…
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Frank J. Cavanaugh
Mr. Cavanaugh, 86, of Spotswood, died Feb. 4, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Joyce Cavanaugh; two daughters, Patricia Robustelli, and her husband, Vincent, and Judith Cavanaugh; a son, Frank Cavanaugh; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; the mother of his children,Mildred Cavanaugh; two nieces; and many great-nieces and great-nephews.…
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Residents must exert influence beginning at local level
People feel they have lost control of the government, that it has too much power, their vote doesn’t mean anything, and the government does what it wants anyway. Fortunately, this is not true. People can influence government by starting with the local elections. The local mayor and council members have a smaller constituency, and your…
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Frederick J. Franklin
Mr. Frederick, 68, of Freehold Township, died Feb. 25, 2008, in Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. Prior to his retirement in 2006, he was a carpenter with Milltown Carpenters Union Local No. 1006. Surviving are his wife, Celia; two brothers, Carl of Freehold Township and Kenneth of Freehold; and two sisters, Arlene Zukofsky of Milltown and…
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Helen E. Laga Brown
Mrs. Brown, 83, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 22, 2008, at home. A son, William Brown Jr., died in 1991; a daughter, Joann Swankosky, died in 2004; and another daughter, Diane Brown, died in 1960. Surviving are her husband, William F. Brown; a daughter, Marie Knox of North Brunswick; two brothers, Joseph Laga of Union…
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Chester J. “Blackie” Bara
Mr. Bara, 83, of South River, died Feb. 18, 2008, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a floor walker at J&AWoronowicz, South River. He was predeceased by two sisters, Mary Jawidzik-Dubil and Stella Warnowicz, and by two brothers, Milton and Stanley Bara. Surviving are a brother-in-law, Michael Warnowicz of South River,…
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Julius J. “Chuck” Kornacewicz
Mr. Kornacewicz, 83, of Sayreville, formerly of South River, died Feb. 22, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. His wife, Edna T. Zaleski Kornacewicz, died in 2002. Surviving are a son, Randy, and his wife, Donna, of Sayreville; a brother, John Kornacivich, and his wife, Ceil, of Southampton; a sister,Millie Bongiovanni, and…
