Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Push for civilian director raises many questions

    Edison Mayor George A. Spadoro needs to provide more justification for his sudden push to install a civilian public safety director in town hall before he leaves office at the end the year. The new director, who would be paid a tidy salary of between $85,000 and $115,000 annually, would preside over both the fire…

  • Letters

    Visit from loving pet helps cheer patients I have never really been comfortable in a hospital environment, but I like helping people. So, I decided to volunteer my dog, Sami, to be a pet therapy dog at Raritan Bay Medical Center. Our first day on the job was near the end of August. As we…

  • Obituaries

    Michele Recine Thomore Mrs. Thomore, 46, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 22 in JFK Hospice at Edison. A licensed hairdresser, she worked for many years at Performing Touch, East Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Kenneth Thomore; three children, Giavanna, Carl and Celestine, all of East Brunswick; her parents, Marie and Chester Recine of Ortley Beach;…

  • All three railroad routes are losers

    Your Turn Richard Wieland Guest Column The recent letter to the editor from Brian and Barbara Buckley of Freehold about the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) railroad (“Matawan MOM Spur Would Mean Loss of Trail,” Sentinel, Sept. 22) didn’t let the facts get in the way of their “not-in-my-back yard” reasoning. NJ Transit’s 2005 Draft Environmental Impact…

  • Let’s hope his cell mate is another GoodFella

    Coda Greg Bean I don’t know whether to file this one under “A Cautionary Tale” or “Where Are They Now?” If you’re a movie or fiction buff, you certainly remember the 1990 movie “GoodFellas” based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, and you likely remember Henry Hill, the mob informer played by Ray Liotta. You…

  • Super outlines facility plans for next 2 years

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — The school district’s summer punch list is almost 100 percent complete and Schools Superintendent Theresa Sinatra wants to keep it that way. Sinatra outlined the district’s two-year goals for school facilities at a recent Board of Education meeting. “As I said last week, I…

  • Bishop Ahr $12 million addition to open Oct. 1

    School officials and students BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff The new $12 million addition to Bishop George Ahr High School in Edison is slated to open early next month. The project was funded by the Diocese of Metuchen and by a school building fund. EDISON —…