Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Edison schools should celebrate diversity

    This letter is in reference to Beth Klee’s remarks in the Nov. 15 issue. As we have children in the same schools as she does, we were very surprised by some of her statements regarding how Diwali and Thanksgiving are celebrated in our schools. For Diwali, one of our elementary schools had a 65- or…

  • Finance Committee budget a detriment to taxpayers

    Joe Petrucelli and Kevin Duffy describe themselves as “nonpolitical” and regular citizens who volunteer their time to better the financial condition of Edison Township. This statement and their blatantly political attacks against the new administration at Township Council meetings raised questions in my mind. So, I was not surprised to learn about their real involvement.…

  • Resident says laws should apply to all

    This letter is in reference to [Heather] Brown’s remarks about the need for tolerance in the township of Edison [Nov. 8 issue]. As an educator and a resident of Edison for 15 years, I applaud the rich diversity of my town’s population. But, there is a fine line between tolerance and expecting laws to be…

  • Problems persist as association’s offer goes unheeded

    It was great to read that the Edison Jets [football team] are having their field repaired after so many years of neglect by Edison Township officials, but I can’t help notice that there is a pattern to these taxpayer-funded grants to improve our parks. Both the county and the local elected officials love to dive…

  • The less contact, the better at county jail

    The procedure for visiting inmates at Middlesex County jail has moved from the Stone Age to cutting edge with the introduction of a new video visitation system. As of Nov. 1, visitors to the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick will now be linked to inmates via a phone and monitor, cutting off…

  • Photo radar will curb running of red lights

    Unlike Kenneth Vercammen, who wrote the letter published in the Nov. 8 issue of the Sentinel, I am not a lawyer. I am though, an Edison resident greatly concerned by the lack of respect shown by many drivers for our most basic traffic laws and regulations. In my observations, it seems that a majority of…

  • Edison schools could benefit from reserve

    When we started our marriage, my husband and I set up a household budget. Forty-eight years and six children later, we still maintain that budget. We learned early on that life was unpredictable and we always tried to keep an emergency fund. Refrigerators, furnaces, cars, would somehow always break at the most inopportune times. Now…

  • Cops can’t tell the real guns from the ‘replicas’

    Greg Bean Coda Instead of messing around with things like keeping trans fats away from our french fries, I have a suggestion for our local representatives in the state Assembly that might save some young lives now. Last week, cops in Holmdel caught a group of local boys with a replica handgun they planned to…

  • Hunger initiative will feed more New Jerseyans

    Legend has it that New Jersey got its nickname of the “Garden State” while being compared to a double-ended cornucopia, with its agricultural products flowing to New York in the north and Philadelphia in the south. So it would seem that New Jersey, where the food complex is now an $82 billion-a-year business, should be…