Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Candidates range from student to board veteran
Two incumbents, two newcomers seeking school board seats BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – An 18-year-old high school senior, a parent newcomer and two incumbents will vie for three seats on the Board of Education this April. Michael Hughes, who attends East Brunswick High School, is seeking one of…
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Annual St. Ambrose Carnival will truly be missed
Recently it was announced that because of several reasons, a decision was made to stop a longstanding tradition here in Old Bridge: 2007 would be the year that the annual St. Ambrose Carnival would be no more. Many will say that it was just a local school function, but if you ask any Old Bridge…
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Thank you, East Brunswick water department
I was awakened very early in the morning to sounds of water running through the walls. I checked everywhere but couldn’t find the source. I decided to put a large table cover in the washer. I turned the machine on to discover that the water was trickling. I didn’t panic but decided to awaken my…
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Raymond T. Deecken
Mr. Deecken, 67, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 13, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Kathleen Willman Deecken; two sons, Raymond Deecken, and his wife, Bethany, of Sayreville, and Brian Deecken of Asbury Park; a daughter, Justine Rowe, and her husband, Richard, of Metuchen; a sister, Claire Kohler of…
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Louis J. Andreola Jr.
Mr. Andreola, 75, of Seaside Heights, formerly of Milltown, died Feb. 24, 2007, in Ocean Medical Center Hospice, Brick. Prior to his retirement, he was a machinist with Eterna Precision, Jamesburg. His wife, Evelyn, died in 1998. Surviving are two sons, Louis Andreola III of Seaside Heights and Mark Andreola of Milltown; a sister, Rose…
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Helen Jankowski Waraksa
Mrs. Waraksa, 89, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Feb. 10, 2007, in Care One, East Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Paul Waraksa, and by a daughter, Joan Waraksa. Surviving are a daughter, Patricia Skenesky, and her husband, Joseph, of Monroe; two sisters, Agnes Smith of Brick and Stephanie Stimphel of Florida;…
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Walter R. Hughes Sr.
Mr. Hughes, 78, of South River, died Feb. 25, 2007, in Care One, East Brunswick. He was employed for the past 20 years as a courier with CDL Securities, North Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Margaret “Peggy” Morris Hughes; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Walter Jr. and Dorothy of Manalapan, Edward and Elodee of Howell,…
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Joyce Dolores Olimpio
Mrs. Olimpio, 64, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 19, 2007, in JFK Medical Center, Edison. Surviving are her husband, James Olimpio; two daughters, Joyce Pauline Ferigne, and her husband, Joseph, of Brick, and Jill DeLuca, and her husband, Joseph, of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick; a brother, Thomas Mahoney of the Toms River…
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Viola Loretta Allen Wasilko
Mrs. Wasilko, 74, of Monroe, formerly of Spotswood, died Feb. 1, 2007, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was a former owner of Wasilko Travel Agency, Monroe. Her husband, Michael M. Wasilko, died in 1979. Surviving are two sons, Jerry Wasilko, and his wife, Ruth, of Monroe, and Michael Wasilko Jr., and…
