Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Reader challenges officials’ land use actions
The power to rezone properties and to vacate streets is awesome. Recently Edison Township Council members used all their power to carry out this rezoning of property near James Street for JFK Medical Center and then proceeded to vacate streets as another accommodation. The actions are both ill-conceived and premature. Doing double (council) meeting sessions…
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Reader says Edison needs a more open, accountable government
I am tired of being personally attacked by the current administration. It seems to me that when I ask questions about the financial information of Edison I am told that I have political motives. What a great way of distorting the facts, make me political. Let’s get the facts straight, I did not create the…
