Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Some could lose homes due to high taxes

    At a time when people are losing their homes to foreclosure, when others are having a difficult time paying their bills, when necessities such as food and electricity are difficult to maneuver, why not raise our dog-licensing fees to add to this strain? Why? Because as Nancy Pinkin, East Brunswick Township Council president at the…

  • Victor Sujew

    Mr. Sujew, 54, of Florida, formerly of South River and Monroe, died Jan. 25, 2008, in Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, Hudson, Fla. He was a self-employed flooring contractor. He was predeceased by his father, Paul Sujew. Surviving are his mother, Lydia Lukjantschenko Molotschko, and her fiancé, John McGowan, of Monroe; and two sisters, Deborah…

  • Time was right for mental-health parity in N.J.

    Assembly Bill A-2512 was to be a cost-saving measure and would have been good for the fiscal health of the state budget and the state economy. It was created to reduce current costs, shifting these costs from the private sector to the public sector, thereby saving the state money and expanding treatment access without relying…

  • Frank Szegeti

    Mr. Szegeti, 83, of South River, died Feb. 5, 2008, at home. His first wife, Arlene Pindrus Szegeti, and a sister, Margaret Benedict, both died in 1983. Surviving are his wife, Elaine Bruhn Szegeti; a son, Robert, and his wife, Linda, of South River; three sisters, Helen Lawnik of South River and Dorothy Grekoski and…

  • Encourages residents to consider running for school board

    On Tuesday, April 15, voters in 90 percent of the state’s school districts will select more than 1,500 men and women to serve on their local boards of education. For citizens with a sincere interest in the education of their community’s children, it’s not too late to consider school board candidacy. To appear on this…

  • Timothy W. Scherer Sr.

    Mr. Scherer, 57, of Sayreville, died Dec. 31, 2007. He was a graduate of Middlesex County College, Edison. He was predeceased by his father, Vernon W. Scherer, and by a brother, Michael V. Scherer. Surviving are a son, Timothy William Scherer Jr., and a daughter, Jamie Elizabeth Scherer, of Milltown; his mother, Elizabeth Scherer of…

  • Marion E. Hilger

    Mrs. Hilger, 77, of Sayreville, died Jan. 29, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was employed as a food handler for Burger King, a division of Quick Quality Restaurants, Woodbridge Center. Prior to that she was a seamstress with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Local No. 147, South River. Surviving…

  • Raising tolls is not the answer to New Jersey’s financial problems

    Gov. Jon Corzine’s plan to dramatically raise tolls to help repay New Jersey’s debt is just very poor public policy. Raising tolls on the more efficient toll roads will only encourage people to use less efficient back roads and alternate roads. A driver can reach almost any point in the state using free roads. From…

  • Judith Joswick Sarisky Gargiulo

    Mrs. Gargiulo, 63, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Jan. 27, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 2003, she was an English as a second language teacher and a speech therapist with the Sayreville Board of Education, where she worked for 35 years. Her mother, Dolores…