Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • For the Record

    An article in the July 14 Sentinel incorrectly paraphrased a viewpoint of East Brunswick resident Ronnie Collins regarding the Weber School property. She did not take issue with the township’s legal view that a nonpublic school use would violate the property deed.

  • Letters

    Commuter train is not fitting memorial for lives lost in battle I just discovered Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Manalapan, not too long ago. When seeing it for the first time, I actually thought it was one of the nicest places I’d seen in New Jersey. In this time of growth, it was such a pleasure…

  • For the Record

    A graphic that accompanied a July 8 story published in Greater Media Newspapers regarding the salaries of mayor and council members in local towns incorrectly stated that members of Helmetta’s governing body receive no compensation. While their compensation had been eliminated from the payroll in 2002, it was reinstated the following year. The mayor now…

  • Political correctness hits a new and historic low

    Coda Greg Bean It was the great Obi-Wan Kenobi who said, “I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out … and were suddenly silenced.” And there was indeed a great disturbance in the Force last week, an immense collective scream, a national gnashing of teeth. But the…

  • Obituaries

    Michael P. Guiliano Mr. Guiliano, 67, of Upper Freehold Township, died July 8 at his home. Born in Perth Amboy, he had lived in North Brunswick before moving to Upper Freehold Township 10 months ago. He was a graduate of Perth Amboy High School. Mr. Guiliano was a U.S. Navy veteran. He was a self-employed…

  • Letters

    Expense does not negate need for new rail routes in New Jersey Barry Carol’s comments regarding the proposal to build a new rail line to serve western Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties, as well as more general transportation issues (“All Three Proposed Rail Routes Would Be Too Expensive,” Guest Column, Sentinel, June 23), is well-thought-out…

  • Park service resistance could derail MOM line

    An effort to restore rail service between Ocean County and western Middlesex County has been dealt another blow, one that has the potential to stop the proposal dead in its tracks. Just months after NJ Transit released a study indicating that a rail line from Lakehurst to South Brunswick would cost more and be used…