Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Sirr exhibits character, dedication and expertise on board

    I am writing this letter in support of Patrick J. Sirr for the East Brunswick Board of Education. Pat has been a longtime board member and has done an excellent job in that position. I have had the good fortune to work with him personally on the East Brunswick Band Boosters executive board and on…

  • Karp will add new thinking, new solutions to school board

    It has been several years since I completed my service on the Board of Education. The problems have not changed very much, but the pathway to solutions has become much more com­plex. In these times, we are in desperate need of new and creative thinking to help us find ways to continue the excel­lence of…

  • Monroe voters should take a lesson from South River

    Congratulations to South River voters for their support of education and for ap­proving their March 11 school bond ref­erendum by a 2-1 margin. The owner of an average home will see an increase of $93 per year in taxes to cover approxi­mately $6 million of the total $11 mil­lion project. No trailers for them. Did…

  • Animal Rescue Force volunteers rate praise

    I want to thank the Animal Rescue Force (ARF), East Brunswick, and two of its volunteer workers, Virginia Stillwagen and Catherine Senkins. ARF finds homes for abandoned animals. Last month I found a 6-month-old de­clawed, neutered cat on my doorstep during a major snowstorm. ARF put me in contact with a veterinarian who scheduled an…

  • School taxes remain stable under South River budget

    School taxes remain stable under South River budget SOUTH RIVER — Homeowners will once again catch a break as they will face no increase in school taxes for the district’s tentative 2003-04 budget. The news follows a year in which residents actually saw a 1-cent tax decrease in the school tax rate, an anomaly during…

  • Budget for ’03-04 funds new teachers, trailers

    Monroe school tax ratewould climb 13 centsunder proposed budget By vincent todaroStaff Writer Budget for ’03-04 funds new teachers, trailers Monroe school tax rate would climb 13 cents under proposed budget By vincent todaro Staff Writer MONROE — Monroe taxpayers will see their school taxes increase by almost 13 cents under a tentative budget presented…

  • Obituaries

    VITO WILLIAM ANCONA, 79, of North Brunswick died March 3 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was the retired manager of the North Brunswick Sanitation Department. Surviving are his former wife, Elizabeth Caccioppo Ancona of North Brunswick; two sons, William Ancona of Piscataway and Stephen Ancona of Huntersville, N.C.; a brother, Fred…

  • Our View

    Another place for a bite on Ryders Lane — why not? With the existing conditions on Ryders Lane being what they are, it’s hard to believe that denying the construction of a Wendy’s restaurant will do the people of Milltown much good. Take a look at the surroundings — strip malls and restaurants, and by…

  • for the record

    In a March 6 article titled "Council Changes Course on Allowing Dog Service," the Sentinel incorrectly reported on the number of dogs that are taken in by Helmetta resident Gail Drysdale on behalf of the St. Bernard Rescue Foundation. Drysdale, who has eight licensed dogs she keeps as pets, said that at any given time…