Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Spotswood Board of Education Candidates

    Ronald Dittman* Dittman, 67, has a wife, Penny, and three grown children, and has resided in Spotswood for 14 years. A retired teacher, Dittman has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Rutgers University and a master of science degree in mathematics from the University of Idaho. He pursued further graduate studies at Washington State University…

  • Milltowners to vote on 7-cent school tax hike

    BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer MILLTOWN – The owner of a home assessed at the borough average of $165,631 would pay $115 more in school taxes next year if voters approve the 2007-08 school budget Tuesday. “That is about 32 cents a day,” Superintendent of Schools Linda Madison said, noting that…

  • Three incumbents, one newcomer seeking seats

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer JAMESBURG – Four candidates are running uncontested in Tuesday’s school election. Incumbents Patrice Faraone, Thomas Bodall and Michael Tehan are seeking full three-year terms, while Ted Somers is looking to fill the remaining year of an unexpired term. Bodall told the Sentinel he is looking forward…

  • Make choices to help prevent child abuse

    Spring is a time of optimism and renewal. As we observe Child Abuse Prevention Month during April, Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey encourages everyone to make positive choices that affect the way we raise our children and support our families. Dramatic changes in social, cultural and demographic trends have occurred over the years, presenting today’s parents…

  • Use of property taxes to fund education is unfair, undemocratic

    The tax-reform measures, as presented in the newspapers, certainly don’t correct the problem of using the property tax to fund primary and secondary education. The concept that property ownership is an indication of wealth or available cash is ludicrous. Consider the farmer holding lands worth millions of dollars, and yet he is lucky to pay…

  • 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…

  • Make choices to help prevent child abuse

    Spring is a time of optimism and renewal. As we observe Child Abuse Prevention Month during April, Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey encourages everyone to make positive choices that affect the way we raise our children and support our families. Dramatic changes in social, cultural and demographic trends have occurred over the years, presenting today’s parents…