Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Drivers of cars, not just trucks, cause concern on roads

    Richard Wieland’s letter to the editor ("Tractor-Trailers Are Danger to Lives, Bridges and Tunnels," Sentinel, July 18) raises concerns regarding safety in truck traffic. However, he should get his facts straight before attacking the integrity of many professional truck drivers whose safety record is far better than the average car driver. A recent study suggested…

  • Trash in park cast pall on Fourth of July fireworks

    I am 11 years of age, a member of a family of four, and a Jamesburg resident who attended the Fourth of July fireworks display by the lake in Thompson Park. I enjoyed the fireworks very much. They were great, and I’m sure many people would agree. The reason I’m writing this letter is because…

  • Writer says bicycle thief’s parents must be so very proud

    This is an open letter to the thief who chose to steal a young man’s chained bike while the young man was at work in Helmetta. Your parents should be proud of who they raised — next, you’ll be stealing someone’s car. I wonder how your parents would take to someone stealing their car, and…

  • Super’s salary hike came from left field

    Perhaps I’m having an early senior moment and don’t realize it. After the local press reported the East Brunswick Board of Education’s approval of a new contract with Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jamie P. Savedoff, I received a number of calls from residents asking why I voted for a salary increase. Believing that the press…

  • Guest Column

    Deborah JacobsNJFOG challenges McGreevey Deborah Jacobs NJFOG challenges McGreevey’s executive order on records In a news conference held July 15 at the state house, the N.J. Foundation for Open Government (NJFOG) brought together journalists, advocacy organizations and community activists to challenge Gov. James E. McGreevey’s Executive Order No. 21, which virtually exempts the governor’s office…

  • Inconsistency in funding unfair

    It was good news almost across the board recently, as municipalities throughout the state learned how much extraordinary aid they would be receiving to offset property taxes. Almost. Just as governing bodies in many Middlesex County towns were learning they could lessen their municipal tax increases, or at least hold the line as expected, Jamesburg…

  • Grateful for worker’s act of compassion during round of golf

    We have, unfortunately, become accustomed to a general lack of compassion by so many people in our society. Fairly or unfairly, our expectations have been diminished to the point that we aren’t even consciously disappointed when someone fails to "help thy neighbor." It is therefore, in this vein, that an act of human compassion compels…

  • Resident irked by U.S. senator’s stand on nuclear waste storage

    Resident irked by U.S. senator’s stand on nuclear waste storage Yucca Mountain makes sense to most New Jerseyans ("Nuclear Waste Transport Along Rail Lines Opposed," Sentinel and Suburban, July 11). We want nuclear waste out of New Jersey. The Yucca Mountain solution is sensible because it stores waste underground in the uninhabited desert and out…

  • Former resident praises work of historians

    I would like to applaud Steve Gregus and the Milltown Historical Society for their efforts to keep the borough’s historic buildings intact. I am a former resident of Milltown, now living in Palm Springs, Calif., and I can recall a similar incident happening back in the 1970s. The former mayor’s mansion, a beautiful Victorian-styled building…