Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Call for support of prescription-drug price registry
In the past year, drug costs have increased at twice the rate of inflation. High drug costs deliver a difficult blow to those least able to afford it – the low-income and the hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents who lack health care coverage. Individuals who do not have health insurance pay the highest…
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To find out why so many leave, ask teachers themselves
I am writing in response the (too) brief item in Greg Bean’s column, “With John Merla, It’s One Goofy Thing After Another,” (Sentinel, May 18) about the new study from the National Education Association (NEA) showing that “half of new teachers in the U.S. are likely to quit within the first five years because of…
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Obituaries
Walter A. Hastings Jr. Mr. Hastings, 57, of East Brunswick, died May 27 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. The owner of Walt’s Organ Service, he also was employed by MidState Bowl, East Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Mozdzen Hastings; a son, Walter Hastings III; four daughters, Donna Doubt of Brick, and…
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Pucci is responsive, respected, appreciated
As a reader of your newspaper, I am writing to state my support for Mayor Richard Pucci of Monroe. He has always been responsive to the needs of the citizens of this community, and for that reason he is a respected and appreciated mayor. Ellen Norman Monroe
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Self-service gas pumps: the horror, the horror!
Greg Bean Coda I got a real kick out of the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth among many of my fellow Nanny Staters when Gov. Jon Corzine recently proposed allowing us to pump our own gas as a way of reducing prices. New Jersey – which first made self-service fuel pumping illegal in 1949…
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Deny quality education, hurt town’s future
Mindy Shepetin Guest Column Hats off to Robin Romano of East Brunswick for her response (“Focus on What’s Good for Society, Not Just the Individual,” Letters to the Editor, Sentinel, May 18) to the letter titled “Charge Residents a School Tax Based on Use” that appeared in the May 4 issue of the Sentinel. I…
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Careers in the making
PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff NBC meteorologist Chris Cimino (above) speaks to students at the Mill Lake Elementary School in Monroe June 2 as part of Career Day. Below, Sharika Kanl and Caroline Russo, both 8, listen closely to Cimino’s presentation.
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Obituaries
Walter A. Hastings Jr. Mr. Hastings, 57, of East Brunswick, died May 27 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. The owner of Walt’s Organ Service, he also was employed by MidState Bowl, East Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Mozdzen Hastings; a son, Walter Hastings III; four daughters, Donna Doubt of Brick, and…
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Teachers start program to honor town’s helpers
Many who perform unpaid services are thanked in Monroe BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDI Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE GRIMALDIStaff Writer MONROE – Jennifer Lucas never sought recognition for her job as a reader for Samantha Mischler, a legally blind sixth-grader at the Woodland School. But when Samantha’s mother, Tabitha, discovered that Lucas had never reported the hours…
