Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Campaign poster clutter is a blight on the landscape

    I’ve been driving through East Brunswick these last few weeks wondering what happened to our elected officials who had been preaching to us about the environment — keeping it clean, uncluttered and conserving our resources. Then I look at roads such as Ryders Lane between Cranbury and Summerhill, and I can’t believe the clutter of…

  • South River Rescue Squad is in acute need of volunteers

    This letter goes out to my fellow South River residents.Have you ever in your distant, or not so distant, past, called the South River Police Department in the midst of an emergency? If so, the response you may have received was two or three men or women bearing Rescue Squad patches, ready, willing and able…

  • Obituaries

    GENEVIEVE "JEAN" BLASZKA DABROSKI, 92, of South River died Oct. 25 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Her husband, Joseph Dabroski, died in 1971. Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Jack Novik of South River. Services were arranged by Maliszewski Funeral Home, South River, with a Mass at St. Mary’s Church,…

  • More Letters Democrats have kept promises in Helmetta

    More Letters Democrats have kept promises in Helmetta In Lisa Reid’s letter to the editor in the Oct. 18 issue of the Sentinel, she raised quite a few questions about the Borough Council accomplishments in Helmetta. I wonder why she didn’t simply ask her husband, Councilman Tom Reid. Contrary to her report, since taking office…

  • Silent auction raises over $8K for school playground

    Staff Writer By nicole c. vaccaro JEFF HUNTLEY Marc Rosenthal, Cheryl Preziosi and Sue Beaudrow decide which items to bid on during Saturday night’s silent auction at the East Brunswick Hilton. More than $8,000 was raised at the event, hosted by Memorial Elementary School, which will go toward phase two of the school‘s playground project.…

  • Geographical gymnastics

    Allezah Abbasi and Stephanie Kartellias, both students at Schoenly School, Spotswood, take part in this year’s Gym Geography Program. The event, sponsored by the PTA, marries social studies with physical education. JOE CHURCH JR.

  • Thanks, encouragement go out to injured firefighter

    This letter is in answer to Nick Poliseno, the fireman from Spotswood who was hurt in a fire on Devoe Avenue, Spotswood (Letters to the Editor, Sentinel, Oct. 11). Please understand, Nick, we residents of Spotswood care a lot about our firemen and first aid squad. If you note, the first aid squad was not…

  • Officials made misleading remarks on 6th Street sale

    East Brunswick Council-man Edwin Brautman owes the residents of the township an explanation of his actions, which certainly are contradictory. He clearly supported the sale of the 6th Street property to partially fund the establishment of the police pistol range. The sale was to bring in approximately $600,000. The sale of the property never took…

  • Former council president remembers different story

    An all-Democrat Township Council is definitely different from a Republican one, at least in East Brunswick. It is obvious from Rita Zeitman’s letter in the Oct. 18 issue of the Sentinel that she wished to create a false impression of what occurred in the past. Who could forget the Westons Place purchase, the speakerphone controversy,…