Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Stender’s campaign remarks unfair, untrue

    Assemblywoman Linda Stender (D-District 22) has begun her negative campaign against our congressman, Mike Ferguson (R-7th District), early this fall. I guess it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a politician running for office will say anything to get elected, even if it’s mean and untrue. What surprises me is that she seems to be running primarily…

  • District schools’ capacity ‘maxed out,’ officials say

    Super, board of ed brainstorm to come up with solutions BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – The school district will need between 90 to 100 new classrooms over the next 10 years to cope with a burgeoning student population and overcrowded schools, officials said. School administration officials met recently to…

  • Obituaries

    Sister Marie Regina Leis Sister Leis, Order of St. Francis, died Aug. 10 at the age of 82 at Assisi House, a convent in Aston, Pa., for retired sisters of St. Francis. She had resided there since 1997. Sister Leis was a communicant of St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Metuchen, and had been a professed…

  • There are weightier topics for BOE to tackle

    At the last Edison Board of Education meeting before the schools open for over 13,000 students, the hot topic being discussed was not curriculum. It wasn’t books, it wasn’t overcrowded classrooms or the recent frightening reports on many New Jersey schools failing to meet the state’s Adequate Yearly Progress standards. No, it was Friday night…

  • Missile defense system needed now, not later

    The recent Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon surprised me by the number of rockets fired into Israel. A weaker enemy that doesn’t have an air force, navy or army large enough to attack a country can use the alternative of rockets to bring death and destruction. If the warhead is nuclear, which North Korea has, and…

  • Letter does not represent residents’ opinions

    I just finished reading Bruce Diamond’s letter to the editor in last week’s Sentinel regarding three members of the Edison Township Council. First, Mr. Diamond is not speaking for me and many other residents of Edison Township; he is only speaking for himself, and I take offense to his speaking for everyone in the township.…

  • Edison school board should reconsider night games

    I am writing regarding the decision of the Edison High School Board of Education to eliminate Friday night football games. In my opinion, that decision has made Edison the laughing stock of our area, the state, and if the story is that far reaching, perhaps the entire nation. Friday night high school football is an…

  • Help secure passage of hit-and-run law

    I am asking the citizens of the state of New Jersey to help me get “Skinner’s and Michelle’s Law” passed through the Senate and signed into law by our governor. Almost three years ago on November 14, 2003, my father, Lawrence R. Skinner Sr. was working on the Brandriff Avenue Bridge in Millville. He was…

  • Another day of infamy

    The list of names of those who perished in the 9/11 terrorist attacks begins to blur after one reads the first several hundred names. The horrific loss of that dark day five years ago is almost too much to comprehend. It’s only when the focus is on an individual name on the list that the…