Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Obituaries
Anne Keough Krotosek Obituaries Anne Keough Krotosek Mrs. Krotosek, 85, of East Brunswick died July 23 in St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, Walter Krotosek, died in 1975. Surviving are two sons, Gregory Krotosek and Daniel Krotosek, both of East Brunswick. Services were held at Rezem Funeral Home, East Brunswick. Interment was in…
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Donations needed to fund extracurricular activities
This is an open letter to the concerned citizens, residents and business owners of Jamesburg. Our children need your help. As everyone knows, small municipalities are under budget restraints. While our school board and administrators have focused our limited resources on the core curriculum, all funding toward extra-curricular activities has been eliminated completely. Since October…
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Students, teachers feel crunch at Hammarskjold
I am writing this letter about the problem of Hammarskjold School. The school is definitely overcrowded. If it is made larger, there will still be problems with the lockers, and the school will still be worse than a maze. Some of the teachers do not have a classroom to teach in. My teacher was late…
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Your turn
Raymond T. EppingerGuest Column Your turn Raymond T. Eppinger Guest Column Raymond T. Eppinger Guest Column Full accounting of costs needed in S.R. Five years. Can it really be five years since the borough of South River debated the direction it would take to address the need to replace or renovate its aging municipal buildings?…
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Incentives aside, more should consider serving
Incentives aside, more should consider serving If there’s a local service that often gets taken for granted, it’s our volunteer first aid squads and fire departments that are there to help us in what is often our greatest times of need. The men and women who serve on these squads are our hardest-working volunteers, many…
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Your Turn
David A. SlikerGuest ColumnSouth River addressing building needs, keeping tax stable Your Turn David A. Sliker Guest Column South River addressing building needs, keeping tax stable David A. Sliker Guest Column South River addressing building needs, keeping tax stable This letter is a response to Marilyn H. Meloni’s letter to the editor ("Proposed Purchase Looks…
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Obituaries
Lydia C. Reinke Craig Obituaries Lydia C. Reinke Craig Mrs. Craig, 79, of Monroe died July 23 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1989, she was employed by the Monroe Township Board of Education as a teacher’s aide at Mill Lake School and Woodland School. Surviving are her…
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School tax rate may drive some residents out of E.B. East Brunswick is supposed to have a stable municipal tax rate. The municipal tax rate is not what is making our taxes skyrocket. It is the school tax rate. The schools are becoming resorts. Teachers get large salaries and benefits, and people like me have…
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Helicopter memorial commemorates sacrifices
I would be remiss if I did not respond to my fellow Milltowner about the Cobra helicopter in front of the Joyce Kilmer American Legion Post in Milltown ("Helicopter at Vets Post Is Not Pleasing to Eye, Mind," Letters to the Editor, Sentinel, July 22). You are right. The helicopter is not aesthetically pleasing to…
