Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Communities bolstered team during season

    On behalf of the entire Spotswood High School baseball team and coaches, I would like to thank the communities of Spotswood, Milltown and Helmetta for everything they have done for us during the season. This was the first year that the Spotswood High School varsity baseball team was able to play a home game in…

  • East Brunswick police officers exhibited care, expertise, command

    I have been a resident of this township for 30 years. I wish to thank the East Brunswick Police Department and particularly Officer Chris Soke (Badge No. 154) for their assistance and handling of an accident that occurred on the morning of June 12. My car was parked in the Lowe’s parking lot on Route…

  • Thanks go out to many for success of fundraiser

    I would like to thank everyone for coming to my third annual Alex’s Lemonade Stand on June 9. I found out there were more than 1,500 stands across the country this year. I’m glad everyone loved my lemon slushies, too. Rob Bogash, owner of the Coffee Beanery in Jersey City, provided the cool slushie cups…

  • Rail line would be of little or no benefit to county residents

    I’d like to respond to recent letters to the editor in some newspapers advocating the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) rail line through Middlesex County. Middlesex County Freeholder Director David Crabiel’s opposing stance is a good one and stands for the residents’ best interests. Yes, we in Middlesex County are loudly crying out, “Not in my back…

  • Troubling allegations amid ‘clean election’

    Her Web site says she’s for “taking campaigns out of the hands of special interests and putting it back into the hands of voters.” It says she “supports tougher pay-to-play laws that would ban special interest contributions to all campaign accounts and at all levels.” But things aren’t always as they Seema. South Brunswick Democrat…

  • For the Record

    A June 21 story inaccurately described the state law that dictates how towns such as Jamesburg must fund municipal libraries. In fact, state law mandates that Jamesburg annually give the library a sum equal to one-third of a mill (.0003) on every dollar of assessable property within the municipality, based on the equalized valuation of…

  • With opposable thumbs, they would rule the world

    Greg Bean Coda I once made friends with a government trapper out West whose job was to catch predators that attack livestock and put them out of business. In the CIA, what he does is called “terminating with extreme prejudice.” And he was (still is) very good at his job. By the time my friend…

  • Obituaries

    Gertrude Anne Epstein Lawson Mrs. Lawson, 55, of South River, died June 10, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her parents, Israel Epstein, M.D., and Katharine Wheeler Epstein. Surviving are a son, James Lawson Jr., and his fiancée, Jennifer Malik, of the Parlin section of Sayreville; a daughter, Katharine…

  • Public should be aware of dangers of alcohol

    The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) of Middlesex County Inc. would like to educate pregnant women and all potential mothers of the positive steps they can take toward having a strong and healthy baby. A few changes could make a critical difference in a baby’s health. Scientific studies show that using alcohol,…