Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Council members, not attorney, should answer questions
The East Brunswick Township Council meeting on Sept. 13 should be termed “The Michael Baker Hour.” As I watched the meeting, it became abundantly clear that the members of the council are not informed on many of the subjects. The lack of understanding results in Mr. Baker answering the bulk of the questions asked by…
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Obituaries
Evelyn Muska Oleksiak Mrs. Oleksiak, 82, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 6 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1968, she was a saleswoman with Micky Finn’s Department Store, Perth Amboy, where she worked for 20 years. Her husband, Alfred, died in 1968. Surviving are a daughter, Loreen Pulaski…
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Let the fall fun begin
While the local election season may be months under way in certain area towns, in others there has thus far been little talk of this fall’s races, beyond that of John Kerry and George W. Bush, of course. But with the onset of fall this week, the local campaigns are beginning to pick up steam.…
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Your Turn
State should commit to removal of parkway tolls The state of New Jersey has finally admitted that some of the toll plazas on the Garden State Parkway should come down. Last week, the northbound Raritan toll plaza and the southbound Asbury toll plaza were deactivated. Drivers must now pay 70 cents, which is double the…
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Work needed on funding issue
School boards in the Garden State may face a difficult challenge when they prepare their budgets for the 2005-06 school year. In June, the state imposed strict new caps on school spending increases. There are also new limits on how much surplus a board may keep. Efforts are already under way to repeal the 2-month-old…
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S.R. senior club members grateful for use of space
Senior clubs in our neighboring towns have the luxury of having their own buildings for meetings and events. The South River Senior Citizen Organization was at a disadvantage and had several other organizations offer rooms in the town for short periods of time so we could hold our meetings. On July 1, 1999, our members…
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Vote was to renovate, not waste money, in S.R.
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor from James C. Jones (“complex Offers state-of-the-art facilities”) that appeared in the Aug. 19 issue of the Sentinel. I entirely agree that South River has to continue to update its aging facilities, but that does not give the Borough Council permission to waste taxpayers’…
