Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Harold Borsuk
Mr. Borsuk, 80, of the Forked River section of Lacey, formerly of South River, died Jan. 27, 2008, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a chemical operator with National Lead, Sayreville, where he worked for 32 years. After that, he worked as a courier for 15 years with Blackstone, East Brunswick.…
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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…
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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…
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William J. Parkinson Sr.
Mr. Parkinson, 85, of Old Bridge, formerly of East Brunswick, died Jan. 31, 2008, in RobertWood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.Ason, Daniel, died in 1959. Surviving are his wife, Pauline Helen Parkinson; five sons, William Jr., and his wife, Kathy, of East Brunswick, John, and his wife, Fran, of Hazlet, Charles, and his wife, Mary,…
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Joan Dahlberg Schmidt
Mrs. Schmidt, 79, of Spotswood, died Jan. 18, 2008, in Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Fla. Prior to her retirement, she was a home economics teacher at South River Middle School, where she worked for 18 years. A son, Fred Alexander Schmidt, died in 1978. Surviving are her husband, Bill; a daughter, Karen Peterson, and her…
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SHS student to compete in national award program
SPOTSWOOD- SeanMurray, a senior at Spotswood High School, has been nominated to compete in the national Principal’s Leadership Award (PLA) scholarship program, sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Spotswood High School Principal Thomas Calder announced the nomination, which places Murray in a national competition. One hundred national PLA winners will be…
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Hank Schommer
Mr. Schommer, 70, of Spotswood, died Jan. 17, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2004, he was the owner-operator of Schommer’s Landscaping, Spotswood, for 35 years. Surviving are his wife, Ann Sperveslage Schommer; a son, Kenneth Schommer of Michigan; two daughters, Mary Jo Pacquette, and her husband, Dennis,…
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Kind words aside, inaccuracies must be addressed
On behalf of the Spotswood Education Association we would like to thank Board of Education President Alan Bartlett for the kind thoughts he expressed in the article titled “It’sNotAllAboutMoney for Spotswood Teachers” that appeared in the Jan. 17 issue of the Sentinel. We agree that Spotswood Schools’ faculty and staff do an exemplary job and…
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Court session
PHOTO BY JEFF GRANIT staff Clockwise from top left: Steven Rodriguez, 5, maintains the ball after losing his footing. Children in kindergarten through second grade participate in a basketball fundamentals class at South River Elementary School Jan. 23, learning to dribble, pass and shoot. Ryan Bird, 5, works on ball control during a dribbling exercise.
