Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Factual inaccuracies should be corrected

    David B. Crabiel Guest Column In the Sentinel’s March 3 “Your Turn” guest column (“Comments Based on 2003, Not 2005, Budget”), former Republican candidate for Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders Frank J. Coury took issue with my response (“Freeholder Director Answers Criticism,” Sentinel, Feb. 24) to his earlier letter, “Freeholders Wasting Tax Dollars, Ignoring…

  • Finally, a pay-to-play law that makes sense

    That’s why I think it’s time for drastic action, a little “thinking outside the box,” if you will. Here’s my modest proposal: Get rid of the middleman entirely, and let vendors who want state and local contracts make their seed-money contributions directly into the state’s general fund, earmarked for property tax relief in the form…

  • EBEF celebrates, raises funds to enrich curriculum

    This has been an extraordinary week for the school children of East Brunswick. On March 12 the East Brunswick Education Foundation (EBEF) celebrated its 12th anniversary with a fund-raising gala honoring two benefactors, Dr. Howard Sorkin and Kenneth Kohn of Gabowitz Television and Appliance, East Brunswick. Thanks to the energies of these men and the…

  • Stop huge property-tax increases in E.B.

    Another property-tax increase in East Brunswick for the schools? When will it ever end? East Brunswick is forcing anyone who is not wealthy to move out. Our school taxes are way too high. If a teacher makes $65,000 a year, do people realize that he or she is earning more than $300 per day (based…

  • Budget provides services, complies with state mandates

    As mayor of the borough of Jamesburg, I feel it is my responsibility and that of the Borough Council, as the governing body, to present a balanced budget within the state-specified timeframe. It is also our responsibility to provide services to our residents while complying with state and federal mandates. Over the past few years,…

  • Ailing system doesn’t make it OK to drain taxpayers

    With few exceptions, the school budgets being presented in districts across Middlesex County, and most of New Jersey for that matter, are bringing bad news for residents — tax increases. Again. Just about every Middlesex County school district covered by Greater Media Newspapers is talking about a tax increase, a topic that has become all…

  • Obituaries

    Carolyn Dailey Doller Ms. Doller, 47, of Hightstown, died March 15. Until two years ago, she was a school bus driver for the South Brunswick Board of Education. She was predeceased by her parents, MaryAnn Pizio Dailey and Foster E. Dailey. Surviving are three sisters, Susan Olsen and Debra Ciko, both of South River, and…