Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Letters
E.B. police deserve praise for superb National Night Out The Pine Ridge Neighborhood Association would like to congratulate the Project 18 Community Policing Unit, and East Brunswick Police Department (EBPD) Patrolman Michael Knoll and Patrolman Frank LoSacco on the extraordinary job they did with the planning and organizing of East Brunswick’s first centralized National Night…
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Time to take stand against warehouses
Your Turn Jean E. Dvorak Guest Column Warehouse development near residential zoning brings an invasion of unwanted traffic and general annoyance to homeowners. This is particularly true along Route 535, Cranbury-South River Road, and surrounding local roads near South Brunswick’s border with East Brunswick and Monroe. Yet, South Brunswick continues to encourage warehouse development. Farmlands…
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Obituaries
Ronald Kammerer Mr. Kammerer, 68, of Spotswood, died July 25 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a truck driver with Shaw Industries, Jamesburg. He was predeceased by two sons, Ronald Kammerer, in 2002, and James Kammerer, in 2003. Surviving are his wife, Theresa Gilewski Kammerer;…
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N.J. must find low-cost in-state tuition for immigrant students
Your Turn Partha Banerjee Guest Column A few hundred college-bound students in New Jersey have been waiting for over two years to get a bill passed in Trenton. The in-state tuition bill, when passed, would help these children of immigrants receive an affordable college education and avoid the exorbitant, “out-of-state” fees imposed on them. This…
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Next time your basement floods, who you gonna call?
Coda Greg Bean I live in that part of East Brunswick that sometimes feels a bit like a neglected orphan. It’s a pleasant part of the community over by Farrington Lake and Bicenten-nial Park, but we don’t always feel like the town pays much attention to us. The Milltown Post Office delivers our mail, for…
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Summerhill Square is an approval worth celebrating
Last week’s approval of Summerhill Square, a “lifestyle” shopping center proposed to replace the vacant and dilapidated Meyer’s Shopping Center, marks a victory for East Brunswick officials, residents, merchants and shoppers along Route 18. The shopping center will not only result in the clearing of a long blighted area, but will bring in fresh new…
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State should act on zones
Sayreville is part of a fast-growing number of New Jersey towns looking to create what have been dubbed “pedophile-free zones.” The measure bars certain convicted sex offenders from living near areas that children regularly use. The state is considering legislation aimed for the same purpose, and it is important for many reasons that the Legislature…
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Redevelopment plan sure to cost taxpayers
Joseph Schmidt Guest Column This letter is in reference to the Milltown Ford Avenue redevelopment project, which features a large increase in proposed per-acre units from five to 15 and was approved by the agency and the Borough Council in spite of the lack of necessary information. The original plan adopted in 2002 specified a…
