Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Letters

    Did police officer display fairness, justice, common sense? It seems that the Milltown Police Department has borrowed a chapter from the New York City Police Department. Traffic tickets are being issued with ever-greater frequency to harass citizens, rather than to be helpful. I can only assume this is done to balance the budget or win…

  • Sign up the builders

    Residents of Old Bridge have had the benefit of knowing who’s planning to build what and where thanks to informative signs put up on lots where construction is being proposed. The signs, the result of an uncommon municipal ordinance adopted a few years back, are something residents of all towns should have as a resource.…

  • Resident offers new solution to school issue

    Guest Column Harold V. Kane In the past I have been critical of the Monroe Township Board of Education for excessive spending and the ridiculous idea that it could build a high school on Green Acres parkland. My opinion on these issues has not changed. Despite the recent feel-good session at the high school, the…

  • For the Record

    There is no relationship between the Schweitzer-Mauduit plant’s donation of land to Spotswood for use as baseball fields and the police department’s patrol of the area. Department officials do not consider the plant to be a problem and do not cover it with two officers at a time, according to Police Chief Karl Martin. Regarding…

  • Enforcing traffic laws near school now possible

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The Borough Council has put legal teeth behind a number of traffic regulations in the area of the Appleby School. Although traffic signs were up, summonses could not be enforced on a number of roads because the Borough Council did not adopt ordinances establishing…

  • While district slept, park became money-saving fix

    Your Turn Michael Szewczyk Guest Column Let Thompson Park in Middlesex County speak for itself. Learn firsthand the origin and great deeds attributed to its namesake. Revisit histories of reliable and respectable county officials with the insight and integrity to defend parkland long before open space became a candidate’s handy buzzword. Examine landscape designs where…

  • Obituaries

    Anthony Cerrachio Mr. Cerrachio, 77, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Nov. 23 in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1994, he was employed as a salesman at East Brunswick Lumber, where he worked for 40 years. Surviving are his wife, Peggy Walsh Cerrachio; two daughters, Deborah McNicholas of…

  • OK, it’s hot, but will it stand the test of time?

    Coda Greg Bean My old Granny Bean was deeply suspicious of any new technology that hadn’t been around long enough to stand the test of time. According to my father, his was the last family in town to get a radio, because Granny thought they were just a fad, and there was no reason people…