Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Resident happy about plans for Edison Wal-Mart
It’s funny how people like to point to Wal-Mart coming to Edison as a tragedy. I have lived in Edison for many years and I think it will be a plus for the community. There are a few individuals who have chosen to use Wal-Mart as the cause of the day against the mayor. I’m…
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Edison residents will be slaves to new Wal-Mart
We fought the Civil War to rid ourselves of plantation slave owners. We succeeded then, but, they have come back under different names with the blessing of this administration, the biggest being Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer, and the largest corporation and private employer in the United States, making in 2003 some $244.5…
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Crystal ball reveals truck industry’s grim future
Your Sentinel staff writer, Patricia Miller, reported on the Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s “The Trucks are Coming” study. I wish the trucking industry had access to its crystal ball. I guess its predictions for the future are based on past data. Let me look into my crystal ball — by 2020, there will be no truck…
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Location a poor spot for proposed Walgreens
Developer Jack Morris, JSM @ St. George Avenue, LLC wants to build a Walgreens drugstore in Colonia at Chain O’Hills Road and St. Georges Avenue where Frystock Jeep now stands. That intersection suffers many traffic accidents. Chain O’Hills Road is the main outlet for hundreds of families nearby. The Woodbridge Planning Board gave approval to…
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Russomanno not the voice of local Democratic group
In recent months Mr. Anthony Russomanno has submitted a number of letters to the op/ed page and signed them as a Edison Democratic committeeman. As second vice chairperson of the Edison Democratic Organization, I want to make it clear that the views expressed by Mr. Russomanno do not reflect the views or opinions of our…
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Resident has had enough of Kruczak DWI stories
Isn’t it time for a moratorium on the Billy Kruczak story? Hardly a week has gone by without the Sentinel quoting what Mr. Kruczak said to the South Plainfield police officers. In view of the fact that Mr. Kruczak has in fact resigned from the Edison council, the story has now moved beyond a news…
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Pamela J. Gowen
Mrs. Gowen, 57, of Freehold Township, died Feb. 27 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. Born in East Wareham, Mass., she had lived in Edison and Piscataway before moving to Freehold Township in 1971. Mrs. Gowen was a graduate of Edison High School and the Middlesex General Hospital School of X-Ray Technology, New Brunswick.…
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Smith deserves veterans committee post
Charles Woods Guest Column When the 109th Congress convened last month, Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) was removed as chairman of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Committee. He was not only replaced as chairman, he was removed from the committee entirely. As commander of Sayreville Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4699 and as an…
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School state aid figures down from last year
Preliminary school budget calls for 7-cent hike in tax rate BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Residents here are looking at a 7-cent hike in the school tax rate, according to the preliminary budget introduced by the Board of Education last week. That translates into a school tax…
