Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • School board’s decision was best for students

    School board’s decision was best for students The Spotswood Board of Education made the right decision last week in denying McDonald’s an easement on part of the Appleby Elementary School property. Board members’ unanimous decision was based on the concern that having the restaurant so close to the rear of the school and having school…

  • South River to sell closed school

    SOUTH RIVER — The borough will be auctioning off the old middle school. An official date for the auction has not yet been scheduled. At the Borough Council agenda meeting on Monday, officials discussed allowing for the auction of the Thomas Street building. An appraisal performed on the building late last year has the estimated…

  • Helmetta council ignores children’s needs

    Four years ago I went to our Borough Council meeting, the first of a number of times, because we did not have a single playground for our children. The only negligible result of this was the adoption of the matter as a campaign issue. Now that the candidates have been elected and years have passed,…

  • South River Board of Ed election approaching

    SOUTH RIVER — Applications for a seat on the Board of Education are now being accepted. The filing deadline for nomination petitions is Monday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. There are three, three-year terms up for grabs in this year’s election which will be held on Tuesday, April 17. All prospective candidates can obtain a…

  • Member seeks to clarify East Brunswick Zoning Board actions

    In his letter to the editor in the Jan. 10 issue of the Sentinel, Frank Coury has once again chosen to misrepresent the facts and impugn the honest efforts of the East Brunswick Zoning Board in order to further his political agenda against the elected officials of our town. Mr. Coury stated, incorrectly, that "35…

  • Searching for answers on East Brunswick cell tower ordinance

    I wonder how the East Brunswick mayor and Township Council arrive at their decisions. Do they follow any prescribed method for decision-making? There have been many acts by the administration which I seriously doubt were logically considered. The one act which I would like the administration to detail is the ordinance which it adopted in…

  • Holiday generosity spread from South River to surrounding towns

    Once again, a community has come together to help those who are in need; however, this time the generosity has spread to others in our county. This year, the South River Elementary School Adopt-A-Family program was able to help 33 families with a total of 115 children. Not only individuals in this small town, but…

  • South River is moving on traffic enforcement

    South River is moving on traffic enforcement Last week, the borough of South River announced plans to increase its traffic enforcement effort. We support the proposal. The Police Department is hiring three additional officers, and the town will now be able to assign two of those officers full time for traffic enforcement duties. Specifically, they…