Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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If you want good spin, it’s gonna cost you
Coda Greg Bean Sometimes, I think I’m in the wrong end of the publishing business — the wrong end being the end where people aren’t lining up to give me vast amounts of money to say nice things about them. According to a recent article posted on Adweek.com, the Bush administration and other federal agencies…
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Water main break closes E. Brunswick High School
EAST BRUNSWICK — School was canceled at East Brunswick High School Tuesday due to a broken water main on the school grounds. The break in the underground, 10-inch main was detected after a custodian found a pipe leaking water in a school hallway around 4:30 p.m. Monday. The custodian notified the maintenance and grounds foreman,…
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Report shows E.B. grads move on, but stay close
BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The school district has released its future plans review, which analyzed what the class of 2005 is doing now. The report was presented at the Feb. 16 Board of Education meeting. Indicated in the report are a number of statistics regarding how the…
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Obituaries
John J. Brautigan Mr. Brautigan, of South River, died Feb. 26 in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Kathleen McHugh Brautigan; three sons, Bernard Brautigan of East Brunswick, John Brautigan of South River and Jude Brautigan of Suwanee, Ga.; four daughters, Karen Raviola and Ann Wierzbicki, both of East Brunswick, Margaret…
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Letters
Urge legislators to fund education via income, not property, tax East Brunswick was originally intended to be a middle-income suburban community with a mix of homes and farms, ideally located in the midst of large commercial and industrial cities, with the potential for a beautiful riverfront. As East Brunswick grew in population, however, the school…
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School administrators keep fingers crossed
And now we play the waiting game. Administrators and school board members in suburban school districts such as the ones that operate in this region are anxiously waiting to hear how much state aid will be received for the 2006-07 school year. The budgets for the upcoming school year are being developed right now and…
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Cheney was too slow in accepting the blame
Coda Greg Bean I was 6 years old when I shot my grandfather in the back with an arrow. Ours was a hunting culture, and I’d been along on hunting trips since I was old enough to walk. This, however, was the first time I’d been in the field with anything more deadly than a…
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IPLE team wins contest after error is corrected
EBHS group will again head to Washington, D.C., for nat BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer East Brunswick EAST BRUNSWICK — It wasn’t just the Super Bowl that had some questionable officiating this year. But unlike the Seattle Seahawks, students from East Brunswick High School’s Institute for Political and Legal Education (IPLE)…
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Letters
The longer it takes, the more it will cost Here we go with an appeal by a bunch of environmental groups to stop progress and cost the taxpayers more money. Most of these people live out of our town. The members of the local group called the Park Savers are really the people who live…
