Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Reader takes issue with mayor’s annual speech

    Here we go again. Same old tired rhetoric from Edison Mayor George Spadoro in what can only be described as an off-the-shelf speech. It’s the same insight you’ll get from any of his campaign brochures for as far back as you care to look. You can do it from memory. Taxes, open space, public safety…

  • Edison resident frustrated by overdevelopment

    I am writing to vent my frustration with Mayor Spadoro, the Planning Board and Councilman Diehl. After reading the letter by Mr. Goodman recently, I was extremely upset. It seems that Mr. Goodman has a special relationship with the mayor because when our neighborhood (Vineyard Road and Route 27) have had problems, no township officials…

  • Obituaries

    George Dikovicky Mr. Dikovicky, 78, of South River, died Jan. 27 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1989, he was employed as a driver with the South River Sanitation Department, where he worked for 32 years. Surviving are a son, George Stan of Old Bridge; a daughter, Donna…

  • U.S. soldiers have put forth tremendous effort

    Richard ‘Rick’ Brody Guest Column I would like to share with your readers my recent experience attending the presidential inaugural in Washington, D.C. I was invited along with others from my veterans organization, Veterans of the Vietnam War and The Veterans Coalition, to attend the “Salute to Heroes” veterans ball following the inauguration ceremonies. It…

  • Metuchen boro Web site upgrade in the works

    I would like to respond to John Aden Lewis’ column about the Metuchen borough Web site in your Feb. 9 issue. Mr. Lewis has asked that our Web site, www.metuchen.com, include agendas and minutes of official borough meetings. He is correct in asking that these documents be placed on our Web site and we intend…

  • Edison should turn former CIC Superfund site into open space, recreation area

    With the decades-long cleanup of the Chemical Insecticide Corp. (CIC) Superfund site on Whitman Avenue due to be completed this spring, Edison has an incredible opportunity to redevelop the site for public recreation and open space. More than 77,000 people live within 3 miles of this long-polluted site, and they can finally benefit from it.…

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  • Mayor questions school board’s fiscal policies

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — In his annual State of the Township speech, Mayor George A. Spadoro commended his administration for frugal municipal budgeting while challenging the Board of Education to find a cheaper way. After word got out about the Jan. 31 speech, School Administrator Daniel…

  • Thomas F. “T.V.” Varga

    Mr. Varga, 54, of Costa Mesa, Calif., and formerly Edison, died Jan. 27 at Wells House Hospice, Long Beach, Calif. Born in Perth Amboy, he resided in Edison prior to moving to California 31 years ago. He was a freelance pattern maker/canvas fitter, most recently employed at Marine Services, Newport Beach, Calif. He was predeceased…