Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Chester J. Pardun Jr.
Mr. Pardun, 81, of Princeton, formerly of Milltown and North Brunswick, died Feb. 13, 2007, in University Medical Center at Princeton. He was a co-owner at Deer Brook Village, North Brunswick, and previously owned C.J. Pardun and Sons Construction, North Brunswick. He was a president of University Savings Bank, North Brunswick. Surviving are his wife,…
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Joseph Sink Jr.
Mr. Sink, 52, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 14, 2007, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his father, Joseph Sink Sr. Surviving are his wife, Loretta Alberico Sink; his mother, Helen Noll Sink of East Brunswick; two sisters, Suzanne Sink of East Brunswick and Mary Anne Fligiel of Bridgewater;…
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‘Concerned Citizen’ is still busy writing letters
Greg Bean Coda I’ve been getting a lot of letters from Concerned Citizen lately, and I wish he or she would just stop writing and save themselves the postage. In the nearly three decades I’ve been in journalism, Concerned Citizen has written me dozens, maybe hundreds of letters. And he or she even seems to…
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Walenty Dubicki
Mr. Dubicki, 80, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 18, 2007, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving is a sister, Emilia Burzynski of Linden. A Mass was offered at Holy Trinity Church, Helmetta. Interment was in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
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Obituaries
Alexander M. Bell Mr. Bell, 87, of Monroe Township, died Feb. 9, 2007, at home. Born in East Orange, he resided in Edison before relocating to Monroe Township eight years ago. He was an administrator of pharmaceutical service at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for 25 years, retiring in 1998. Prior to that, he founded Bell’s…
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NYC schools may take cue from South River
City educational group visits boro schools to see Singapore math in action BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Above: Joseph A. Porzio, of the New York Comprehensive Center, watches as Deyvid Vasilev, 9, and Enadja Barnes, 9, work on math problems as part of the school’s Singapore math program. At right: Third-grade…
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For the Record
Spotswood High School teacher Frank Yusko was mistakenly identified in a Feb. 8 story as being a Vietnam veteran. River Mill Art Gallery owner Michael Chan, who assisted Yusko in a recent fundraising effort for the Wounded Warrior Project, did in fact serve in Vietnam.
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Rising costs, trailers add to tax burden
This letter is in reference to the article titled “Park Land To Be Probed for Historical Value” that appeared in the Feb. 1 issue of the Sentinel. Another delay to construct the so-called new high school. The latest figure submitted regarding cost is more than $36 million above previous projected costs. The longer the delay…
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Residents voted for a high school, not one in the park
The Jan. 24 vote by the Monroe Township Board of Education not to look for alternatives that would help the overcrowding at the high school and remove the trailers shows once and for all that the only thing of interest to the board is protected park land. The board is helping politicians help pay-to-play developers…
