Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Full-day kindergarten can be long, tedious, stressful
This is in response to David Seiden’s letter to the editor ("East Brunswick Can Wait No Longer for Full-Day Kindergarten") that appeared in the Jan. 29 issue of the Sentinel. In the present trend of rushing to educate children in academics as quickly as possible, we have forgotten that children are children. Most children of…
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Elementary school fire confined to boiler room
BY VINCENT TODAROStaff Writer Elementary school fire confined to boiler room BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer STEVEN M. BARON East Brunswick firefighters Richard Jewett and Robert Wisniewski (right) hose down debris removed from the boiler room at the Frost Elementary School Tuesday. EAST BRUNSWICK — A fire in the boiler room at the Frost Elementary…
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Obituaries
Mary Solomon Klein Obituaries Mary Solomon Klein Mrs. Klein, 87, of East Brunswick died Jan. 26 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Rudolph Klein; two sisters, Hilda S. Weinberg of Bridgewater and Lillian S. Chasnoff of Dayton, Ohio; her caregiver, Jennifer Gaily; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.…
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Survivor urges others ‘Go Red for Women’
Elaine FlynnGuest Column Survivor urges others ‘Go Red for Women’ Elaine Flynn Guest Column Did you know a woman is 10 times as likely to die from heart disease as from breast cancer? Cardiovascular diseases kill more than 505,000 American females every year — more than cancer, chronic lung disease, pneumonia, diabetes, accidents and AIDS…
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Your Turn
Dawn MilburnGuest ColumnQuestions remain, despite inquiry Your Turn Dawn Milburn Guest Column Questions remain, despite inquiry Dawn Milburn Guest Column Questions remain, despite inquiry On Jan. 27 a handful of parents and grandparents attended the Milltown Board of Education meeting. Both the statements and actions of our elected board members were deplorable and insulting. As…
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More guidance staff will affect taxes, not students
The East Brunswick Board of Education should definitely not hire more guidance staff simply because of the "problems" it says our children are faced with ("Stress Tops List of Students’ Problems," Sentinel, Jan. 22). These problems — smoking, drinking, stress — are the same problems that most of us had to deal with when we…
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Obituaries
Catherine Rispoli Obituaries Catherine Rispoli Mrs. Rispoli, 92, of North Brunswick died Jan. 27 at home. Born in Trenton, she resided in West Virginia before moving to North Brunswick many years ago. She was predeceased by her husband, James Rispoli, in 1991. Mrs. Rispoli is survived by a daughter, Pauline Carina of Milltown; a son,…
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Start lobbying now for more school aid
Start lobbying now for more school aid Start lobbying now for more school aid Give us more in ’04. Given the way things have been going in terms of state funding for suburban school districts in New Jersey over the past few years, that should be the rallying cry for area school administrators and residents.…
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East Brunswick can wait no longer for full-day kindergarten
I was pleased to read in the Jan. 22 Sentinel that the Spotswood school district will introduce full-day kindergarten next year. The district has shown good judgment by incorporating this program into its school construction project. As cited in the article, the evidence for the educational value of the program is overwhelming. Over the past…
