Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • It’s safe to smoke but only in your dreams

    Coda Greg Bean After many years as an ex-smoker, I took the habit up again this week, and I’m enjoying it immensely. The news that I’m smoking again initially horrified my wife, and it will probably horrify my friends as well. I lost both of my parents to lung cancer, and I’d been a two-pack-a-day…

  • Letters

    Residents urged to take part in ’05 Heart Walk Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. According to the American Heart Association, a woman is 10 times as likely to die from heart disease as from breast cancer. Nearly 500,000 women die each year in our country due to cardiovascular disease, including almost…

  • Spotswood H.S. closes Monday due to outage

    SPOTSWOOD — Students reported to Spotswood High School Monday morning but were sent home after two hours due to a power outage that had continued since a tractor-trailer knocked down nearby lines a day earlier. The truck had picked up relief supplies Sunday that were collected by area residents for victims of Hurricane Katrina. As…

  • Teacher is recognized in surprise presentation

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — High School teacher Frank Yusko had another exciting day Sept. 6, but it wasn’t because he was working on another service project or gearing up for the first day of school. In a surprise presentation before school staff and officials, Yusko received a framed…

  • Obituaries

    Morgan L. Burgess Sr. Mr. Burgess, 68, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 2 at home. Surviving are his wife, Myrtle Bell Burgess; a son, Morgan Burgess Jr. of East Brunswick; a stepson, Leroy; a daughter, Mellenie Burgess of Piscataway; four stepdaughters, Renee, Andrina, Patricia and Sherril, all of New York; four brothers, Marotha Pasha of…

  • Outpour of support a tribute to community

    They need it more than we do. That’s been the sentiment of many area residents, business owners and organizations who, like most Americans, have watched the fall-out of Hurricane Katrina in disbelief over the past week and a half. The response to the devastation along the Gulf Coast can only be described as heart-warming, as…

  • Letters

    Focus on strengthening EMS via education, funding New York City’s recent release of more 9/11 tapes hopefully makes the public aware of what we in the emergency medical services (EMS) community already knew: EMS responders — volunteers included — played a much more vital role in the day’s events than reported until now. The overall…

  • Monroe woman’s art coming into full bloom

    Works of Clearbrook resident on display at library this month BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Graziella Smith works on her craft at home in Monroe last week. MONROE — Youth may be wasted on the young, but 74-year-old Graziella Smith is enjoying it just fine. Smith, a resident…