Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • On school calendars, church-state separation

    Your Turn Deloris E. Malatesta Guest Column Deloris E. Malatesta Guest Column Oh, what a tangled web we weave … the web, a paradox in deed, indeed. While the East Brunswick Board of Education protected the “anonymous accusers” and persecuted the “courageous coach,” parents, students and staff members gathered at Franklin High School to commemorate…

  • Monroe students learn war’s horrors, realities

    Ongoing program focuses on contributions made by war veterans BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Applegarth Middle School students Sam Maynard, Nichols Chen, Bryan Haring, Rose Buffolino and Aminah Forbes reach out over a hand-print flag that will be sent along with care packages to soldiers overseas. MONROE ––…

  • Board says coach issue was handled properly

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — The night the Board of Education was expected to approve Marcus Borden’s resignation could have seen a firestorm of debate on the issue of school prayer. Instead, after Borden took his resignation off the table a week earlier, officials heard little more than…

  • Letters

    Transfer will help meet needs of population At the Sept. 28 Monroe Township Board of Education meeting, Dr. Ralph Ferrie, superintendent of schools, announced that a 30-acre land parcel near Applegarth Road was transferred from the township of Monroe to the Board of Education as a site for a much-needed, future elementary school. On behalf…

  • Obituaries

    Paul Pincus Mr. Pincus, 87, of Old Bridge, died Oct. 23 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Born in Bayonne on Nov. 21, 1917, he lived in Brooklyn and Long Island, N.Y., before moving to Old Bridge nine years ago. Mr. Pincus was a clarinetist. He began playing the clarinet at age 9…

  • Vaz successor likely to be Red Bank super

    Board wants official to revise curriculum at Spotswood schools BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — The school district has found a replacement for retiring Superintendent of Schools Anthony Vaz. The Board of Education was expected last night to appoint John Krewer, formerly superintendent of the Red Bank school system in…

  • Obituaries

    Shawn David Bastek Mr. Bastek, 25, of East Brunswick, died Oct. 9 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his father, Alexander Bastek of East Brunswick; his mother and stepfather, Barbara and Alvin Stanhope; a stepsister, Sarah Stanhope; his grandmother, Eileen Bastek; and an aunt, Denise Bastek. Services were held at Rezem…

  • Miss school after prom, miss your graduation

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Senior students who skip school the Monday after prom night next year will not be allowed to walk in the graduation ceremony. The Board of Education has decided to more strictly enforce its attendance policy, which up until now did not punish students…

  • Letters

    Majority cannot violate rights of even one individual I respectfully disagree with Susan L. Wilder’s sweeping statement in her Oct. 13 “Your Turn” guest column (“Inequities in School System Are Cause for Concern”) that “This country was founded upon the principle that the majority rules” and her suggestion that a ballot referendum could serve to…