Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Board of Education election results

    EAST BRUNSWICK Budget Yes: 2,587 No: 2,549 Three three-year terms Holly Howard*2,906 Scott Luxenberg*2,730 Michael Hughes2,629 Steven Blaustein2,285 Percentage of registered voters: 18% HELMETTA Budget Yes: 33 No: 38 One three-year term Lou Adornati65 Percentage of registered voters: 5% JAMESBURG Budget Yes: 195 No: 28 Three three-year terms Patrice Faraone*175 Thomas Bodall*174 Michael Tehan*161 One…

  • Public urged to look for humane seal of approval

    A recent poll by Opinion Research Corporation International asked 1,000 adults how they prefer their charitable donations be utilized. Not surprisingly, the majority said they would be more likely to donate to a health charity that does not conduct animal experiments. But until now, there was no way of identifying “cruelty free” charities without a…

  • S.R. residents approve tax increase

    Rosenberg, Urbanik, Rafano win terms in five-way race BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Donna Rafano SOUTH RIVER – Voters re-elected two incumbents and welcomed a newcomer to the Board of Education Tuesday. They also approved the school budget for 2007-08 in a vote of 675-493. “I am ecstatic that the people…

  • Resident irked by condition of state’s roads Resident irked by condition of state’s roads Is anyone upset about the condition of our roads?Since when did the road department let the roads get in such horrible condition? I can drive down Route 35 or Route 9 and hit enough potholes to shake loose a filling. New…

  • Spotswood budget defeated once again

    Lavelle, Rieser win new terms on Board of Education BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The school budget was defeated for the 14th straight year Tuesday, when residents also re-elected an incumbent and gave a former member a term on the Board of Education. The budget went down by a…

  • Two incumbents, one newcomer win seats

    Monroe school tab with tax increase OK’d in 68-vote margin BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Amy Speizer MONROE – Voters approved the school budget by a narrow margin Tuesday and chose two incumbents and one newcomer to sit on the Board of Education. Amy Speizer, a 15-year board veteran, captured the…

  • Monroe Twp. Board of Education Candidates

    Carol K. Bjornsen Bjornsen, a Monroe resident for 22 years, has a husband, Kenneth, a daughter, who is a 2004 Monroe Township High School graduate, and a son, who is 18. A registered dental hygienist, she has a degree in the applied sciences, dental hygiene. She is the recording secretary of the New Jersey Dental…

  • Caring individuals offered compassion

    Gratitude is too simple a word to express the overflowing feeling of warmth we have for Kenny and Pat Irons. Kenny is our mailman, who delivers our mail in perfect condition in frigid weather and blistering heat and never accepts a warm or cold drink. Last May when my husband, Paul, was in physical rehabilitation,…

  • Students, staff, taxes on the rise in Monroe

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer MONROE – Voters will have their say on a $78.5 million school budget that carries a tax rate increase of nearly 9 cents when they head to the polls April 17. The Board of Education unanimously adopted the 2007-08 spending plan March 28 that is up…