Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Retired DYFS director’s support will be long remembered

    The children and families served by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) loses a staunch advocate and friend with the retirement of the division’s director, Charles Venti. Venti’s ongoing commitment, support, vision and compassion have helped to save countless young, vulnerable people whose futures appeared bleak and hopeless. First Concern is…

  • Public bodies must use same principles as private sector

    Public bodies must use same principles as private sector It is never easy for an employer to cut jobs, but private businesses need to seek savings wherever possible, and so should government agencies. That’s why it is with mixed feelings that we learn that the South River Borough Council recently cut three full-time municipal positions.…

  • Clean Power Act would bring fresh air to New Jersey

    Summer is just around the corner. Unfortunately, in New Jersey that means more than trips to the shore — summer means bad air days. During the past few summers, approximately one in three days has been an ozone alert day. That means it has been unhealthy to breathe the air. More than 30 years ago,…

  • Keep cats inside in order to protect songbirds

    Ah, beautiful spring with its sights and sounds of birds. We Americans love birds. We also love cats, and with an estimated population of more than 100 million cats in this country, outdoor cats have a devastating effect on wild birds, especially songbirds. Birds are in the greatest danger from cats during the spring and…

  • Guest Column Sharon and Avi Brender Save young lives with EKGs, AEDs, CPR

    Guest Column Sharon and Avi Brender Save young lives with EKGs, AEDs, CPR We are writing to urge your readers to press our New Jersey state educators, school systems and legislators to support the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in New Jersey schools and provide support for AED and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training programs.…

  • 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. ROCHELLE C. FACTOR GEIGER, 55, of Edison died April 7 in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. Surviving are her husband, Keith Geiger; a son, Eric Silverman of the…

  • Vulnerable year for budgets

    On April 16, one would have to imagine that voters throughout New Jersey will be unusually motivated to cast votes in this year’s school elections, which have traditionally been attended by very low percentages of registered voters. The reason for the expected spike in voter participation, of course, is the almost across-the-board tax rate jumps…

  • East Brunswick administration shows lack of professionalism

    The East Brunswick administration has done it again. Again it has shown its lack of professionalism in its handling of the promotion of deserving police officers. Why in the world did an excellent officer, Sgt. Geraldine Garret, have to sue the township to receive something which she deserved in the first place? I can’t understand…

  • Council voting block has stranglehold on borough’s finances

    When Councilman Ed Romano became the finance chairman this year, he said he was going to do something to help our taxes — at least that’s what his campaign literature promised. Yet at the March 27 Borough Council meeting when a resident asked Mr. Romano how Helmetta’s financial health was, he said that he didn’t…