Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Resident expresses displeasure with local police department

    I am a 17-year resident of Colonia and am a little upset with the Woodbridge Police Department. Recently, my son Michael, who is 17 years old and still in high school, was issued a speeding summons while returning home from a JFK High School football game. He has only been driving for a month, and…

  • 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…

  • Articles on Vietnam wall exhibit evoke memories of a brother’s heroism

    Thank you for your recent articles concerning the Gonder family, the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall exhibit and Judge Roger Daley. My brother, Sgt. Freddy Bonner of East Brunswick, (EBHS class of 1965), was killed in action Dec. 31, 1968, saving his platoon from a Viet Cong ambush. He received the Bronze Star for his actions.…

  • Other restrictions tie school officials hands

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The only way to get past the new spending caps imposed by the state are with waivers granted by the commissioner of the Department of Education or “spending growth limitation adjustments.” But the state frowns upon waivers and the spending growth limitations…

  • Happy ending to a lost-dog story

    On the evening of Sept. 20, I was out in the yard with our dog, Sadie, when a large branch crashed onto our neighbor’s metal shed. The noise scared our timid Sadie, and she took off running. As she ran through some of the streets behind our home, other people, dogs and noises scared her…

  • Voters should approve Edison ballot questions

    Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, is Election Day, and the country will be voting on a candidate who will be leading the country for the next four years. In Edison, there are no local candidates from the township on the ballet, but there are two questions that will appear on this years ballot. The first question…

  • Obituaries

    Song Kun Park Mr. Park, 53, of Woodbridge, died Sept. 21 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. Born in Daebu Myon, South Korea, he had lived in Queens, N.Y., before moving to Woodbridge 10 years ago. He had been employed by the Han Ah Reum Market, Edison, and worked in the retail industry…