Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Shoot the messengers
Certified public accountant Marvin Corwick and professional planner Gregory Fehrenbach were only on the Edison Township payroll for a scant two weeks. They were to be part of new Mayor Jun Choi’s transition team. The duo’s mission was to examine the township’s fiscal health and ferret out ways to reduce the cost of operations. But…
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Obituaries
Joseph Dominguez III Mr. Dominguez, 63, of Edison, died Jan. 16. Prior to retiring in 2005, he worked for Maher Terminals, Port Elizabeth, and was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a member and minister of Jehovah’s Witnesses, South Edison, for 39 years. Mr. Dominguez was also an elder in the congregation…
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Letters
Center In recent years, New Jersey has had to ‘import” more than 50,000 units of whole blood annually because our population does not donate enough blood to cover the needs of New Jersey hospitals. Our state faces an immediate shortage for select blood types, and this will likely be the case for the coming winter…
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Someone put Cookie out in the Dumpster
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch The outside of my refrigerator hasn’t been free of clutter since the first day we sent our darling to preschool. I remember it as if it were only yesterday. I can still see him with his freshly combed hair, his little backpack, and his new sneakers that could make…
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Will the real addicts please stand up?
Coda Greg Bean It’s certainly nice to see the entire New Jersey Legislature is not made up of hypocrites. Recently, when then-acting Gov. Richard J. Codey signed a smoking ban into law making it illegal, as of April 15, to smoke in restaurants, bars and most indoor public buildings, the bill was like a beautiful…
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Referendum project delayed due to high bids
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — The Board of Education has rejected all six bids of the second phase of the borough high school’s referendum project because the bids exceeded the estimated cost, school officials said. “We are going to reach out to determine what happened,” said board President Ronald…
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Task force grapples with crowded schools
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer There are approximately 15,000 students in the Edison Township school system. And officials said there are more on the way. With two new housing complexes nearing completion — one on Woodbridge Avenue near Middlesex County Community College and another at Camp Kilmer, the Edison Township public…
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BOE sets upcoming budget session schedule
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — The Board of Education reviewed the tentative budget calendar at the board meeting last week. “We usually start our budget process after our audit report, which was given on the Dec. 6 meeting this year,” said Schools Superintendent Theresa Sinatra. Joseph D’Avilla, of Wiss…
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Obituaries
John Alden Buck Sr. Mr. Buck, 77, of Monroe, formerly of East Brunswick and Spotswood, died Jan. 3 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He founded Buck Bros., a highway construction company located in Edison, then East Brunswick and Monroe, in 1950. Surviving are seven children, Christine “Tina” Klitsch Shannon, Maureen “Lesley” Buck-Stone,…
