Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Zoning change would be bad for Harts Lane

    East Brunswick is considering changing the zoning on Harts Lane. No one will notice until it’s too late. Most people can see the worry of homeowners along Guernsey Lane and Ryders Lane, with the possibility of over-height buildings containing 90 units impacting their neighbors, looking down into their homes and yards. Why did we bother…

  • Guest Column

    Increased taxes is not only reason residents vote against budget Darlene Gliese Darlene Gliese I would like to respond to Donna Faulkenberry’s letter to the editor (“Simply Voting No, or Not Voting, Is a Disservice,” Sentinel, April 26) concerning the defeat of the Spotswood school budget. It’s quite a presumption that the only reason people…

  • Officials should give credit where credit is due

    The announcement by Mayor William Neary of East Brunswick that the Tamarack Hollow tract in the rural preservation zone of East Brunswick is going to be saved as open space is good news. It was only three years ago that Mayor Neary, with other public officials, met at the site and praised the proposed housing…

  • Simmens, Luxenberg chosen to lead board

    EBHS senior, 18, begins three-year term as board reorganizes BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Scott Luxenberg EAST BRUNSWICK – The Board of Education reorganized last week, gaining a new, 18-year-old member and electing a new president and vice president for the year. Michael Hughes, a senior at East Brunswick High School,…

  • EBHS team to hit airwaves

    East Brunswick High School team members Mark Shteyn, Meixin Wang, team captain Eddie Zhang and Jerry Kung are pictured during a break in taping. Following two rounds of victories, the academic team from East Brunswick High School can be seen this weekend competing in the third round in “The Challenge,” a quiz show that tests…

  • Boro wants to ensure students are residents

    Council will not cut school budget, which failed by five votes BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer HELMETTA – Borough officials will not cut the defeated school budget this year, but will instead make a series of recommendations to the Board of Education in the interest of saving money. Residents turned down…

  • Stagnant Assembly has defused bomb threat bill

    It has been almost a year to the day since we spent this space supporting a state bill that would crack down on those who make false public alarms. Events in the news of late have made us wonder whatever happened to that proposal, and if you did too, here’s your answer – nothing. According…

  • Obituaries

    August Horbac Mr. Horbac, 77, of Whiting, died April 19, 2007, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a 43-year member of South Old Bridge Fire Company. He was predeceased by a brother, Walter Horbac. He is survived by his wife, Dolores Fitzgerald Horbac; a son and daughter-in-law, Patrick and Mary Kate…

  • Coda

    We don’t like the smoke, but we do like the money Greg Bean The sad fact is that we can moralize all we want about the evils of tobacco, pass all the punitive laws aimed at smokers we want, but at root we’re a society of hypocrites. There’s a word for people who drive around…