Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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School tab includes tax hike, position cuts
Spotswood board does away with auto class, instructional aides BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The tax rate would go up 10 cents under a 2006-07 school budget adopted Tuesday night by the Board of Education. The increase means the owner of a home assessed at the borough average of…
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Stardom
SCOTT PILLING staff Applegarth Middle School student Jeremy Grossman, as the Prince of Dauntless, and Olivia Restive, as Princess Winnifred, work on a scene from “Once Upon a Mattress” during a dress rehearsal Monday. The show will be performed at 7 o’clock tonight and tomorrow at Monroe Township High School’s Marasco Performing Arts Center, Perrineville…
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Three incumbents face challenge in BOE race
Three full terms and one two-year seat up for grabs in E.B. BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer East Brunswick EAST BRUNSWICK – The field of five candidates seeking four seats on the Board of Education offers a combination of experience and change. While board President Michael Baker has decided against seeking…
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Acting out
SCOTT PILLING staff Jeremy Grossman rehearses Monday for “Once Upon a Mattress.” He and other Applegarth Middle School students will present the show at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow at Monroe Township High School’s Marasco Performing Arts Center, Perrineville Road.
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Scientists at work
Above, East Brunswick High School’s Leebyn Chong, 16, makes some last-minute adjustments to his catapult for the “Storm the Castle” portion of the Science Olympiad state finals at Middlesex County College in Edison March 14. At left, East Brunswick High School student Chris Chen, 16, sets up his and Eddie Zhang’s entry for the “Tower…
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Obituaries
Nina Kaminski Volgyi Mrs. Volgyi, 81, of South River, died March 3 in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a packager at Sunshine Biscuits, Sayreville, where she worked for 15 years. Her husband, George S. Volgyi, died in 2003. Surviving are two daughters, Sandra Hoff…
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Panel works to honor, support veterans
Your Turn Carl Asszony Guest Column Carl Asszony Guest Column Hidden among the 100 veterans organizations throughout Middlesex County with membership in the thousands, there exists a very small, dedicated, relatively unknown group of 16 volunteer veterans, both male and female, whose sole purpose is to respond to the needs of the 55,535 veterans within…
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Letters
Vote shows Milltown officials in bad light The voters in Milltown are being subjected to what that great comedian Norm Crosby would describe as “an aura of reek,” which aptly describes the aftermath of the rejection of Randy Farkas as the Borough Council replacement of recently resigned council member Sean Leary. The very quick and…
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Golden Triangle looks like bait-and-switch scam
Your Turn Jim Mihopulos Guest Column Jim Mihopulos Guest Column I find it extremely difficult to understand what the policy is of East Brunswick Mayor William Neary and the Township Council toward curtailing the influx of students to our schools. Mayor Neary instituted the infamous six-acre zoning in order to reduce the construction of homes…
