Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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O’Brien unhappy with DCA report process
Your Turn Edmund O’Brien Guest Column Edmund O’BrienGuest Column I would like to respond to your recent editorial regarding the Metuchen police department DCA report. Unfortunately, neither an editor or a reporter contacted me on some of the issues raised in your editorial, thus my need to comment. First, let me put in context the…
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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…
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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.
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Obituaries
Danielle M. Kupper Miss Kupper, 29, of Union Beach, died April 7 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in New Brunswick, she resided in Metuchen prior to moving to Union Beach 25 years ago. She attended Harbor School, Eatontown. She is survived by her parents, Virginia and Joseph Kupper of Union Beach; two sisters…
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State DCA report on police dept. a joke
Now you see it. Now you don’t.That pretty much sums up the state Department of Community Affairs’ sleight-of-hand in its recent review of the Metuchen police department. Mayor Edmund O’Brien requested the assessment, but O’Brien wasn’t happy with the results of the “draft” report. Many in the small police department, as well as the Edison/Metuchen…
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Letters
Resident urges voters to pass 2006 school budget Recently, I attended an event at my daughter’s (former) elementary school and was shocked to see and hear all the changes that had taken place. My daughter, Sarah, attended Menlo Park School in Edison in the early 1990s. Currently, she’s attending Vassar College in New York State.…
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Scandalmongers aren’t interested in the truth
Coda Greg Bean There was a lot of tension between the French and Italians at the recent European Union summit, and last week Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi made a joke. According to Reuters, Burlusconi strolled into the conference room, walked up to seated French President Jacques Chirac and put his hands on the Frenchman’s…
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Foundation raises $23,000 for schools
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Teachers and students in the district will continue to benefit from Metuchen Education Foundation’s good works. The MEF raised more than $23,000 recently at its 10th annual fundraiser. “We have raised and donated $200,000 to the schools these past 10 years and we hope…
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Obituaries
Jerome Rosen Mr. Rosen, 87, of South River, died March 1 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he taught industrial arts at South River High School for 50 years. Surviving are his wife, Martha Kirschner Rosen; a son, David of Bridgewater; and a grandson. Services were held at Anshe…
