Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Coming in for a landing East Brunswick resident Victor Balint dropped in on the third-grade students at Warnsdorfer School, East Brunswick, last Thursday. Balint, whose son Andy, 9, is in Marilyn Finnerty’s third-grade class, visited the school to show the students his U.S. Army National Guard A-1 Cobra Helicopter. Finnerty even got a chance to…

  • Peanut Butter Project With the help of Clara Boyl, of Milltown, Casey DeStefano, of North Brunswick, spreads some peanut butter on a celery stick during a project at the Good Day Nursery School in Milltown May 24.

  • Board names new principal at SRHS SOUTH RIVER — High School students will have a new sheriff to contend with come this fall — so to speak. Michael Pfister, a Lavallette resident, was unanimously approved by the Board of Education last Thursday to succeed James Pope as principal of South River High School. Pfister is…

  • Residents gave generously to food drive On behalf of the letter carriers of the James-burg/Monroe Township Post Office, we would like to thank all who donated food for the National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive which was held on Saturday, May 13. Thanks to your generosity, the local food banks are full and can…

  • Monroe Twp. officials right to take their time to get it right I n April, the Sentinel, along with several Monroe Township residents, urged township officials to take their time and address all safety issues before voting — one way or another — on a proposal to build 69 single-family homes on Route 522. At…

  • Knights collection nets money, some items The Knights of Columbus would like to again thank everyone in the Milltown area who donated to our Mentally Challenged Collec-tion on April 29. Because of your generosity ($2,677) we will be able to support Camp Jaycee, Camp Daisy and the Special Olympics. Three personal items were thrown into…

  • Lady Dems president speaks out Shirley Dill The purpose of this letter is to inform and relieve some of the frustration our organization, the Sayreville Lady Dems, endured trying to get a meeting site in our borough. As a nonprofit organization, it is difficult to find a meeting place within the boundaries of our budget.…

  • Borough Council candidate’s ideas are not in tune with voters In his pre-election flier, James Jones, who is running for the position of councilman in the South River Democratic primary on June 6, states that he was "voting his conscience and not the party expectations" (regarding construction of the new building to house most of…

  • 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. GEORGE "ERIC" CARLSON of East Brunswick died May 18 in St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a current member of the East Brunswick Water…