Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Theinert reflects proudly on 14 years with board

    Parting words: Keep energy levels up, creative juices flowing BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Sherry Theinert JAMESBURG – As a concerned parent ready and willing to help, Sherry Theinert agreed to fill the last six months of an unexpired term on the Board of Education. That, she says with a laugh,…

  • Obituaries

    Leroy G. Burke Sr. Mr. Burke, 79, of East Brunswick, died March 28 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed at Hermann Forwarding Co., South Brunswick. He was a former member of the East Brunswick Special Police. A daughter, Grace Joan Burke Sales, died in 1995. Surviving…

  • Nine candidates talk Monroe school issues

    Forum questions focus on board’s role, budget, taxes and teachers BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer Monroe MONROE – No fewer than nine residents will vie for three seats on the Board of Education next week. Current board members Marvin Braverman, John Leary and Harold Pollack are seeking re-election to the three-year…

  • In spring, she bares the collector’s soul

    Coda Greg Bean My wife spent the weekend giving the upstairs a spring cleaning, and at the end there were many trash bags filled with mysterious stuff. “What’s in the bags?” I asked. “Nothing much,” she said. And so I didn’t even peek before she hauled those bags outside where some would go to Goodwill,…

  • Residents are feeling pain of school costs

    We have come to the time of year when New Jersey residents will head to the voting booth to cast their ballot on the only budget in which they have a say – school budgets. Municipal governments do not place their budget before voters for approval, and the governor and state Legislature would not let…

  • Ed. Foundation takes shape in Spotswood

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The school district’s budget will be augmented by the newly established Spotswood Education Foundation, which will fund programs the district cannot afford. The foundation was started by Marge Drozd, a former Board of Education member now running for Borough Council, and John Nesi, who…

  • For the Record

    Statements made by South River Board of Education Member William S. England were inadvertently attributed to fellow board member Karl Haider in an April 6 article. England said that state legislation known as S1701 was a significant cause in the tax increase that is carried by the board’s 2007-07 budget. Haider attributed the tax increase…

  • School is evacuated after gas line rupture

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK – School construction had an unforeseen problem last week when workers accidentally struck a gas pipe, causing the Central Elementary School to be evacuated. The incident occurred at about 2:20 p.m., near the end of the school day April 5. The entire student body,…

  • Tax decrease proposed in boro’s school budget

    Jamesburg residents can expect to spend $48 less next year BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JAMESBURG – In an unusual turn of events for a modern-day New Jersey school district, residents can expect their taxes go down if they pass the proposed school budget. The budget for 2006-07 calls for a…