Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Proposed children’s club could help keep the beaches clean

    I have noticed there is a lot of trash on the beach. People are throwing their garbage or just leaving it behind in the sand. I have seen leftover food, empty bottles and juice boxes, paper plates and plastic utensils. This is making the beach polluted. Some of these things wash into the ocean and…

  • 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. MARY PARADOWSKI JAKUBOWSKI, 86, of East Brunswick died May 7 in St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Stephen Jakubowski, and by…

  • Special education budget fills very significant needs of students

    As a parent of a special needs child, I would like to voice my opinion on the importance of not cutting any monetary amount from the special education budget. I have been a resident of East Brunswick since 1990, and I have two children, ages 10 and 6. I have always supported the school budget…

  • Magnitude of budget cuts varies throughout county

    Magnitude of budget cuts varies throughout county The picture surrounding southern Middlesex County’s defeated 2002-03 school year budgets should crystallize this week. With a May 20 deadline looming, municipal governing bodies that are reviewing defeated spending plans are continuing to meet over the next few days and, if they haven’t already, will reveal the depth…

  • Milltown family extends thanks to participants in recent fund-raiser

    On behalf of Julie and Karl Pfister and their family, we would like to thank all those who generously donated and participated in the cut-a-thon fund-raiser in Milltown on April 28. A special thanks to Dawn Norris and her staff at Hair After for all their efforts in organizing and hosting this productive and worthwhile…

  • for the record

    A resident has appealed the Jamesburg Land Use Board’s approval of a retail development on a 2.4-acre Forsgate Drive site. The municipality in which the development is proposed was incorrectly reported in a May 2 article.

  • Drivers must stop at, rather than coast through, stop signs

    I often wonder why so many drivers, young and old, do not come to a complete stop at any stop signs. They just coast through the signs (some drivers even speed), using the same route every day. There isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t see this happening, and that is one…

  • Students craft an afghan in humanitarian effort

    Staff Writer By lynn K. Barra Students craft an afghan in humanitarian effort MILLTOWN — With a little thread and a lot of love, a small group of local students pieced together an art project that will soon find its way to war-torn Afghanistan. "They did this for someone who was driven from their home;…

  • 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. ADAM BUCZEK, 74, of Oak Ridge, formerly of South River, died May 3 in Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains. Surviving are three sisters, Jane Geresy of South…