Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • It’s safe to smoke but only in your dreams

    Coda Greg Bean It’s safe to smoke but only in your dreams After many years as an ex-smoker, I took the habit up again this week, and I’m enjoying it immensely. The news that I’m smoking again initially horrified my wife, and it will probably horrify my friends as well. I lost both of my…

  • Letters

    Squad grateful for help getting new ambulance Each day we pick up the paper or turn on the television, and are shown our sons and daughters risking life and limb in the protection of our way of life and freedoms in far-off lands. Here, they live, fight, and die for ideas and ideals, and are…

  • Tax breaks could ease our pain at the pumps

    Coda Greg Bean Who’s the hardest-working guy in New Jersey this week? Well, if you notice what’s been going on at your local gas station, it’s the guy who’s out there with a long pole, changing the prices every half-hour. I know this is a fluid situation, and Lord only knows what the price of…

  • Letters

    Deciding on public good can be confusing In a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs refuses to let a construction crew destroy his rabbit hole to make way for a highway. After a great deal of commotion with high explosives, Bugs outlasts the road crew and in the midst of a futuristic tangle of superhighways, a…

  • Obituaries

    Luise M. Vincze Mrs. Vincze, of Bedminster, died Aug. 28. Born in Bremerhaven, Germany, she had lived in Metuchen before moving to Bedminster 17 years ago. She worked as a physician assistant and for Morris Stores, Metuchen. Surviving are her husband, Richard K.; a daughter, Suzanne; and two grandchildren, Joel and Jordyn. Private services were…

  • No excuse for police officer’s actions

    What happened to Maura Ciardiello and her much-loved dog, Rusti, on the afternoon of Aug. 21 almost defies belief. Ciardiello, who had recently moved to Woodbridge from Staten Island, N.Y., with her husband, had run into the ShopRite on Route 35 to pick up a few things for dinner. She left Rusti, a 4-year-old shepherd/collie…

  • Solution needed for Woodside Ave.

    I am writing in response to the July 13 article titled “Mayor calls two crashes by house a coincidence.” At the Borough Council meeting of July 5, Metuchen resident Paul Nadler spoke about two recent crashes in front of his Woodside Avenue home and the ongoing problem of excessive vehicle speeds there. Mayor Ed O’Brien…

  • Resident applauds councilman’s efforts in Edison community

    One hot, summer night in July, I tuned into the special meeting [on the local cable station] called by the Edison Township Council and was appalled by the viciousness of one woman’s attack on Councilman Charles Tomaro. The attack was very ugly and unnecessary. Councilman Tomaro is a dedicated public servant who works tirelessly with…