Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Local lawyer urges township to reappoint Judge Toth

    I read in a newspaper recently that Edison may not reappoint Judge Emery Z. Toth. Failure to reappoint Judge Toth would be a disservice to the taxpayers of Edison and would reduce the quality of the municipal court services. Judge Toth is one of the most respected judges in the state of New Jersey. He…

  • Obituaries

    Albert P. Olsen Sr. Mr. Olsen, 81, of Jersey City, died April 13 at Care One at Holmdel. He was born in Bayonne. He was a paper handler at Met Life, Edison, retiring in 1993. He was predeceased by a sister, Marie Fugitt. He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Albert “Pete” Jr. and…

  • Air time

    SCOTT PILLING staff Teryl Dunlep, 16, takes it to the hoop, and takes his opponents to school, during a game of pick-up basketball at Jefferson Park in Edison last week.

  • Public forum

    JOHN DUNPHY Where are all the people? They certainly weren’t attending the Edison Board of Education Candidates Night April 4 at Woodrow Wilson Middle School. Only about 50 people showed up for the public forum, including existing members of the board, program organizers and the candidates themselves. Voters were expected to vote on three available…

  • Letters

    McMansion ‘beasts’ taking over neighborhood Back in the 1970s, Marvin Gaye scored a huge hit with the song, “What’s Going On.” Each night, I walk my dog, look around my neighborhood and ask myself the very same question. I moved my family to Edison seven years ago and settled in a nice neighborhood near Linquist…

  • What’s the evacuation plan? There is no plan

    Coda Greg Bean About 20 years ago, it dawned on people in northern Massachusetts that if the Seabrook nuclear power plant near the border of that state and New Hampshire melted down, or if there were a bad hurricane or other disaster, people were pretty much S.O.L. because there was absolutely no evacuation plan. The…

  • Your Turn

    Union member disagrees with ‘bean counters’ letter Michael Fisher Guest Column Michael FisherGuest Column I take offense to Joseph Petrucelli’s opinion letter in the March 22 edition of the Sentinel, in which he seems to feel that only non-union people work hard and count as beleaguered taxpayers. I have news for you – I work…

  • Few residents attend Edison’s BOE Candidates Night

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – There was a Board of Education Candidates Night last week? There are Board of Education candidates? There’s a Board of Education? No matter how unlikely the previous statements may sound, one or all of them may hold true for some of the 100,000 residents…

  • Digging for dinos

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen Campbell School paleontologists Brandon Smith and Christopher Little dig for dinosaurs along with fellow first-graders during the annual school’s PTO presentation of Spring Extravaganza on Friday.