Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Collar, identification tag could ensure pet’s safe return

    As a fellow animal control officer for more than 25 years in a neighboring town, I read with interest the article regarding Frank Faraone, a Monroe animal control officer facing animal cruelty charges over having technicians euthanize a cat that he believed to be ill (“Officer Stands Trial in Cat Euthanization,” Sentinel, Feb. 10). If…

  • Of modern kings, henchmen and peons

    There has been talk about raising the retirement age to 73. Why don’t we just raise it to 94? At least the next generation can work its whole life putting money into the system and not have to worry about collecting any of it. Then the following generation won’t have to worry about a shortage…

  • Allegations about police promotions unnerving

    A South River police officer has made charges against the borough’s top police officials that, if they are in any way true, should bring serious consequences for those involved. If, as the charges state, two police officials were promoted under false pretenses, then the borough has a major problem. A court will ultimately decide whether…

  • New lighting, signs would avert accidents

    Patricia Mayer Guest Column Lake Avenue in Helmetta has become more traveled since the development of Heather Glen and Forge Road. More families mean more automobiles. Everyone knows that Manalapan Road/Main Street is too congested for residents of this area to drive to East Brunswick, so they use Lake Avenue as a means to get…

  • Obituaries

    Alfred J. Bonus Mr. Bonus, 77, of Sayreville, died Feb. 2 at home. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a machine operator with Algro Knitting Mills, Milltown, where he worked for 40 years. He was predeceased by three brothers, Victor, Stanley and Frank, and by a sister, Lottie Geresy. Surviving are a brother,…

  • Zeal of voters in foreign countries is lesson for all

    Looking at how many people voted in Iraq, given all the death threats and terrorism, one has to ask what is our excuse in this country? We complain if we have to travel a few blocks to vote. In Iraq, people stood for hours. Those living in foreign countries traveled hundreds of miles to vote.…

  • Cameras bring school new level of security

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer SPOTSWOOD — Those looking to commit a criminal act at Spotswood High School had better beware: the school has a new state-of-the-art security system. Board of Education President Alan Bartlett said the system will help crack down on people who commit unlawful acts, such as the…

  • Income tax is way to fund education

    Frank Coury Guest Column To my knowledge, problems have existed at least since 1968 regarding funding education, truck traffic on the highways and the high cost of rental properties. These problems are even worse today, and, in my opinion, have not been addressed in any meaningful way by our state legislators. Such officials have resorted…