Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • A somber toast for the coming year

    Coda Greg Bean When the United States entered World War II in 1941, my maternal grandfather — who was born in a homesteader’s sod hut in 1907 — was 34 years old. He had grown up a cowboy, ridden rodeo as a young man and taught in a one-room schoolhouse before he married my grandmother,…

  • Home for the holidays, and down with the flu

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch Even though we knew others were suffering through the flu season, we Clinches had been getting along just swimmingly. We avoided the sick, kept our distance from sniffle-toting children and applied antibacterial lotion at every turn We’d heard tales of woe from parents regarding late nights and doctor visits.…

  • Letters

    A Jewish view on Christmas, political correctness Kudos to Richard Cannon for his letter to the editor regarding political correctness (P.C.) and Christmas (“Attempts to Make Christmas Politically Correct Are Offensive,” Sentinel, Dec. 22). I am not a Christian and do not share in Christian traditions. Yet, when I see the joy in the faces…

  • Don’t believe it, son. He’s making it all up

    Coda Greg Bean Over the years, I’ve made every member of my family and many of my friends cringe when I wrote about them in a column. For a long time, whenever I wrote about something one of them might consider embarrassing, I’d take the column home and read it to them before it went…

  • We’re not ‘koi’ about admitting our mistakes

    Bloopers Adele Young We like to end each year by looking back at the collection of typos and usage errors that came across the copy desk and almost made it into print in one of our 12 weekly publications during the year. X-rated One word that newspapers use hundreds of times in each issue is…

  • Obituaries

    Richard Jansen Mr. Jansen, 77, of South River, died Dec. 11 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. He was employed at Johnson & Johnson, Milltown, for 46 years, retiring in 1993. Surviving are a brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Laura Jansen; and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. A funeral service was held at…

  • Board aims to keep out nonresident students

    New policy requires students to live in town before attending school BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The school district is cracking down on families who enroll students before they actually live in the township. At its meeting last Thursday, the Board of Education adopted a new policy requiring…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. Louis S. Rinaldi Mr. Rinaldi, 69, of East Brunswick, died Dec. 9 at home. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Before his retirement, Mr. Rinaldi was a…