Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Spotswood PTA committee members rate thanks for efforts

    Welcome. We’ve heard this word quite a bit this past week. Welcome back — to school, to work, etc. Amidst this salutatory atmosphere, we’ve also recently received a welcome packet from the Spotswood PTA. As co-chairwomen of the PTA Orientation Committee, initially responsible for the idea and creation of this packet, we are taking this…

  • A time for reflection

    After a year of thinking about it, of contemplating how we will face it, Americans have reached the week that marks the first anniversary of the worst attack ever by an enemy of the United States on American soil. It was a bright clear Tuesday morning, a September morning like hundreds of others. But the…

  • Inequitable mobilization policies should be changed

    I am a member of the New Jersey Air National Guard. In response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, our unit was placed on active duty status and was mobilized. We were issued active duty orders for one year and deployed. In addition to mobilization, Stop-Loss was implemented. Stop-Loss is a program wherein active…

  • Township cannot afford to wait and see about schools

    This is in response to a letter to the editor from Marilyn Shustak ("School Construction Right Now Would Only Benefit Developers") in the Sept. 6 issue of the Sentinel. My husband and I have lived in Monroe Township for almost 33 years. We sent both of our children to the Monroe schools and have watched…

  • Official from citizens group says toll money from bridges and tunnels should not fund for-profit arena in Newark

    It costs $7 to cross some bridges and tunnels in the New Jersey/New York area. This money is intended for the maintenance of our infrastructures. Some of these bridges and tunnels were built as early as the 1920s and 1930s and have been paid for hundreds of times over. This week we learned at least…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. LORRAINE TREZZA VINCI, 73, of Laurence Harbor died Sept. 2 at Madison Center, Old Bridge. She was a retired library assistant at Laurence Harbor Library, where she…

  • Boom time for schools

    We are struck by some of the enrollment numbers in school districts covered by Greater Media Newspapers as we observe students, teachers and parents standing on the threshold of a new academic year. That towns in this region are among the fastest-growing suburban municipalities in New Jersey becomes evident when riding around and watching new…

  • Why should E.B. residents pay for repairs?

    Why should E.B. residents pay for repairs? I read in the Aug. 22 issue of the Sentinel that Milltown received a $185,000 grant to fund its sidewalk repair ("Road, Sidewalk Work Means Fewer Trees and More Noise"). How is it that we citizens of East Brunswick are being required to pay for the same type…

  • School construction right now would only benefit developers

    I have lived in Monroe Township for more than 20 years, and I believe in supporting our schools so every child now living in Monroe Township can be properly educated, as is their right. However, I am not sure these school changes being considered are for the good of the present population in our town.…