Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Letters
Resident opposes school super’s salary hike Thank you for your correctly written and timely editorial (June 2, 2005, “Justify High Salary”) regarding exorbitantly expended Board of Education funds for, in this case, an unusually high superintendent’s salary. It is an unending – and unfortunately a losing – battle between citizens of the borough, voters with…
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Letters
Open space for votes in the Vineyard Rd. area? There’s a lot of grand-standing for open space during this election year. Open space is not a political issue because no one is against open space. Open space, however, has to make sense. Every acre of open space usually comes out of revenue-producing commercial or residential…
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Obituaries
Olga B. Kollar Kalina Obituaries Olga B. Kollar Kalina Mrs. Kalina, 87, of the Port Reading section of Woodbridge, died May 26 at Mary Anne Hale Pavilion of Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center, Edison. Born in Port Reading, she was a lifelong Woodbridge resident. Prior to retiring in 1984, she was a manager for…
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Grads of 2005 should ‘endeavor to persevere’
Greg Bean Coda Coda There’s a moment in the classic Clint Eastwood movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” when the old Cherokee warrior, Lone Watie, is talking about his tribe’s defeat at the hands of white soldiers. “I didn’t surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender,” Lone Watie says sadly. “They have him…
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Her slimmer bottom is so out of the club
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch I’ve decided that I’d be toothpick-thin by now if it weren’t for food. In fact, I gained 5 pounds yesterday simply walking past a cake. I’ll admit I may have had a small sliver and was then forced to slice off another sliver in order to even up the…
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Letters
Anti-pollution group urges passage of smoke-free act The years of brainwashing and rhetoric from the tobacco companies still have some people thinking that secondhand smoke is no more than a nuisance — it’s not. It’s a deadly poison. As soon as it’s inhaled, secondhand smoke causes immediate body chemistry changes. It causes change in the…
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Middle school kids come through for the troops
Fifth-graders take on letter-writing project to boost Marines BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSEANN MISRAHI Students from Edgar Middle School became recent pen pals with soldiers in Iraq after responding to a call for correspondence from Sub Place Better owner George Post. METUCHEN — George Post had just…
