Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Metuchen students deserve better high school facilities

    What an unexpected pleasure it was recently to tour Metuchen High School, the focus of a $17.2 million bond referendum on Dec. 14. The dingy lighting, the overheated classrooms, the rank smell of the weight room, the worn-out gymnasium, the Dickensian boiler, the stained drop ceiling shoring up asbestos, and the bleak warren of guidance…

  • Stop whining, start looking for more grants and loans

    Mr. Diamond (Open Space Committee member Bruce Diamond) should know I have always supported the open space tax fund in the past, until my husband Anthony began researching township records and made me aware of the shenanigans that have taken place over the last few years. I can understand the township’s open space committee being…

  • ‘Neighborhoods 1st’ needs to get the numbers right

    On Election Day, Nov. 2, 2004, a great injustice was suffered by the citizenry of Edison Township because of factual distortions, character assassination, and outright lies by Anthony Russomanno and his wife, Cheryl Russomanno — treasurer of a newly formed organization calling itself “Neighborhoods 1st.” The two questions on the ballot that day were very…

  • Resident strongly opposes upcoming school referendum

    The citizens of Metuchen will go to the polls on Dec. 14 to vote on a school construction project. The Board of Education has created a referendum that provides only minimal changes that affect the actual education of our students, yet includes a $2.4 million athletic stadium complete with artificial turf and a $266,000 concession…

  • Resident upset by soccer team’s lack of patriotism

    Recently I walked down to our local high school to watch a soccer game between teams from Metuchen High School and Bound Brook High School. Both teams had finished the session with impressive records and had made it to the Division I finals for the New Jersey State Championship. It was a great day for…

  • Spare time hard to find for multisport athlete

    Mary Lynn Skarzenski juggles application process, hectic schedule BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Woodbridge goalkeeper Mary Lynn Skarzenski has shown her athletic prowess not only in soccer, but in basketball as well, the sport that she hopes to play once she goes to college next fall. It’s around…

  • Supply and demand driving admissions

    In the tradition of the SAT, we ask our readers to answer this multiple-choice question: Trying to summarize your life’s story on a few sheets of paper and distinguish it from a stack of 40,000 others is: A) frightening; B) one of the most important tasks in a teen’s life; C) the act of filling…

  • Tight end sees science rather than football in his future

    Will head to Penna. for his four years of college BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Having played the game since he was 7, JFK High School senior Anthony Meluso has football down to a science. But off the gridiron, that’s exactly what this 16-year-old is obsessed with. Meluso…

  • Edison resident maintains ‘smear campaign’ sunk open space question

    I am a resident of Edison, a current member of the Edison Open Space Committee, and I supported the open space and effort to save the Edison tower referendums that appeared on our local ballots this year. Two week ago, Edison was one of the few towns in New Jersey that failed to pass an…