Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Obituaries

    David Markheim Mr. Markheim, 88, of Monroe, formerly of Old Bridge and Spotswood, died July 22, 2007, in Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice, Edison. He was a self-employed contractor, building homes in and around Spotswood for many years. He served one term on the Spotswood Board of Commissioners, the forerunner of the Spotswood Borough Council.…

  • Freeholder director seeks to clarify the record on MOM

    David B. Crabiel Guest Column David B. CrabielGuest Column I would like to respond to the letter to the editor titled “Middlesex Freeholder Wrong on MOM Rail Line” (Sentinel, June 21) written by Daniel Green, a member of the Ocean County Transportation Advisory Board. Mr. Green’s letter is critical of my position opposing the waste…

  • Takes issue with statements on Iraq War, Bush presidency

    Greg Bean’s column, “These Days Many Soldiers Just Want War To End” (“Coda,” Sentinel, July 26), states that many young men and women in the military “no longer have faith in their leadership to tell them the truth,” “no longer believe that a victory is probable, or possible” and that “many of them simply want…

  • A New York City icon on the Green River’s banks

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda This is a story about optimism, but before I tell it, I have to tell you a little bit about small towns in Wyoming. When I was growing up there, I went to high school in Casper, which at about 35,000 inhabitants was referred to by the folk who lived…

  • Senior community plan too much for Ryders site

    Few building proposals in recent memory have drawn as much opposition within the East Brunswick community as Arbor Ventures’ plan for 90 senior housing units at Ryders and Guernsey lanes. Residents have been protesting the builder’s application since before the Zoning Board of Adjustment began hearings on the issue last spring, and their numbers are…

  • Obituaries

    Clara Maurer Mrs. Maurer, 98, of East Brunswick, formerly of Minersville, Pa., died July 29, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, George W. Maurer; by a son, John Maurer; and by a grandson, John D. Martz. Surviving are two daughters, Georgine Orlick, and her husband, Edward, of…

  • Global-warming legislation will mean new tax

    This letter is in response to Eddie Konczal’s letter to the editor, “Congress: Follow N.J.’s Global-Warming Lead” (Sentinel, July 26), praising the New Jersey Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act. He also uses the newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate change. I’m sure the new term global climate change…

  • Prescription and over-the-counter drugs can be just as dangerous as illegal drugs

    It has been three-and-a-half years since my son, Jason, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that he was abusing. He was 19 years old and in college studying to be a pharmacist. If that isn’t ironic enough, as his mother, I had what I believed to be a safety net – I work…

  • Loyal historian understands debt owed ancestors

    I attended a Monroe Township Council meeting on July 30. A member of the public attacked the credentials of our township historian, John Katerba, because of his assessment of the probable location of the Bethel Indian village. I know John personally, and he has only acted in the best interest of the residents of Monroe…