Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Partners give preservation plan for Sandy Hook

    Congressman Frank Pallone conducted a public hearing Oct. 2 to discuss the public-private partnership between Sandy Hook Partners and the National Park Service for the rehabilitation of 36 National Historic Landmark buildings at Fort Hancock. David Hollenberg, Bob McIntosh and Richard Wells attended the forum on behalf of the National Park Service. I want to…

  • Association supportive of smoke-free air act

    The American Heart Association applauds New Jersey Sen. John Adler and Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg, and joins with them and New Jersey Breathes — a statewide New Jersey tobacco control coalition comprised of more than 45 leading state, health, nonprofit and civic organizations — to urge passage of the New Jersey smoke-free air act announced Sept.…

  • New fast-track development law makes sense

    Smart growth need not be synonymous with slow growth, which is the point of the new fast-track law requiring that complete environmental permit applications be ruled upon within 45 days of receipt. As we see it, the fast-track law provides New Jersey with a balanced way to ensure jobs for future generations. Fast-track permitting will…

  • Youth shouldn’t be exposed to gambling, says reader

    (Open letter to the New Jersey State Legislature and parents of school-age children) In recent sessions, our Legislature has passed laws that will subject persons under 21 years of age to a criminal record for drinking a single beer in public, and is currently attempting to impose driving license suspensions on any person under the…

  • ‘No knock’ law to ban unwanted sales, visitors

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The Township Council will hold a public hearing tonight on a “no knock” ordinance designed to keep solicitors and strangers off residents’ doorsteps. “The ordinance is in response to residents’ concerns about door-to-door solicitors,” said council Vice President Parag Patel, who pushed…

  • Resident questions tax increase for school sports facilities

    It’s a sorry state of affairs when (yet again) a school budget debate degenerates to the level of concerns now being aired in Metuchen. Once, we all heard of the highly vaunted needs for “education” and “process.” Now, apparently, still another tax increase is being sought — this time (the new story) for Astroturf and…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. Margaret M. Henahan Mrs. Henahan, 81, of Freehold Township, died Oct. 11 at Kensington Manor, Toms River. Born in Newark, she had lived in Manalapan and Montclair…