Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • State legislators must support Office on Women’s Health

    Sen. Barbara Buono Guest Column In the world of medical research, men and women are not the same. Most of us are aware that the two sexes tend to suffer from different diseases. It is also increasingly clear that women do not always benefit from the treatments that work for men. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes…

  • Obituaries

    George Yuhas Mr. Yuhas, 76, of East Brunswick, died April 4 at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Shenandoah, Pa., he resided in Jersey City prior to moving to East Brunswick in 1962. He was a retired operating engineer at Local 25 Marine Division. He served with the U.S. Army during the Korean…

  • Schiavo case underscores importance of living wills

    Greg Bean Coda Gregory Bean is executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. It’s now just over 20 years since my father lost his battle with cancer. He died on Father’s Day 1984. His illness was the only demon he ever faced that he could not conquer by sheer force of will, but he did not…

  • Panel seeks assistance in preserving Jamesburg history

    The Jamesburg Historical Association has proclaimed 2005 as The Year to Save History: 320 Years in the Making, 1685-2005. The first room of Lakeview, the famed Buckelew House and today Jamesburg’s town museum, was constructed in 1685. In order to preserve Jamesburg’s quickly fading history, I have launched a Web site, http://savehistory.jamesburg.net, that features a…

  • Resident pays high price for overdue sticker

    Warning. Check the decal on your windshield. It may be time for your car to be inspected. I was recently stopped by a police officer in Highland Park who issued me a ticket because my car had not been inspected when due. The fine? A shocking $130. No matter that I was used to being…

  • End parkway tolls before more millions are spent needlessly

    It takes a bureaucracy of more than 800 people to collect Garden State Parkway tolls. This total includes a pro-rata share of E-ZPass personnel. Imagine if each state highway had such a bureaucracy. Toll collecting is a 24/7 operation, so the costly toll-collection operation must be in place even at 3 a.m., when traffic is…

  • Obituaries

    Emanuel Friedman Mr. Friedman, 91, of East Brunswick, died March 24 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Mollie Smith Friedman; and a daughter, Meryl Friedman of East Brunswick. Graveside services were held at Wellwood Cemetery, Farmingdale, N.Y. Arrangements were under the direction of Rezem Funeral Home, East Brunswick. Mary…

  • New study likely the final word on train plan

    It seems like a good idea — simple, effective, necessary. That probably means it will never happen. The idea to restore passenger rail service to interior Monmouth and Ocean counties and southern Middlesex County has been kicking around for almost two decades. As Route 9 and other area highways are choked with commuters on a…