Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Constitutional convention needed for tax reform

    Time and time and time again, New Jersey governors have called into being a long line of special blue ribbon property tax commissions. Over and over and over again, they have studied New Jersey’s regressive over reliance on the property tax as a source of funding for essential services and programs. Dutifully, they have filed…

  • for the record

    Iron Cycles, located at 87 Washington Ave., Milltown, is not a licensed Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer, but does work on Harley-Davidsons. Its owner, Wally Whiting, said that officials from Middlesex County, which is condemning the property where his and other businesses presently operate, told him the businesses would have ample time to relocate, but initially did…

  • Keeping the country clean is each citizen’s obligation

    Wherever I go, I find empty cans and bottles and old newspapers lying on floors, in parking lots, at bus stops or on streets. I personally appeal to all my fellow Americans — please do your part, and keep your area clean and beautiful. Remember that together we can make a difference. Tajuddin Ahmad Parlin…

  • Officials: School conditions show need for referendum Spotswood board will soon announce details

    Officials: School conditions show need for referendum Spotswood board will soon announce details JERRY WOLKOWITZ Jaimy Schlossberg (l), a special education teacher with the Spotswood school district, and Erin Kaplan, a seventh-grade English teacher, wheel their supply carts down the hall at Memorial School, where both teach from carts because they do not have their…

  • 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 BRESLIN CALLANAN, 91, of East Brunswick died March 3 in St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, Richard Callanan, died in 1983. Surviving are a…

  • Decision is everyone’s to make

    In the coming months, the Monroe Township Council will have to think long and hard about the consequences of an impending decision regarding a proposed change to the township’s master plan. The Planning Board has recommended that the council amend the master plan to allow an adult community of about 900 units and 30 single-family…

  • Matrix doesn’t have the answers for Helmetta and snuff mill

    My wife and I moved to Helmetta in August 1993, a time when the famed snuff mill was closing its doors for good. We chose Helmetta for its "forgotten by time" appearance and friendly atmosphere. Having lived in neighboring East Brunswick since the late ’50s when my family moved there from Pennsylvania, I’ve watched East…

  • Businesses getting raw deal in hard times

    Recently I found out that eight Milltown businesses are being forcibly evicted from their long-standing homes. They were at first given 30 days to vacate their businesses, which were contributing tax dollars to the town. It has been decided that a park would better serve the town — also eliminating its much-needed tax revenue in…

  • Refutes attack on family’s lack of civic contributions

    Once again, I am amazed how an elected Borough Councilman, specifically Andrew Tancredi, can personalize fictional television characters, attack my family’s lack of civic contributions, and within the same few paragraphs refer to himself and his personal accomplishments 21 times with the words I, me and my (Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, Feb. 28). He…