Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Metuchen Musings

    Residents get the scoop at local ice cream parlor Metuchen Musings Residents get the scoop at local ice cream parlor John Aden Lewis The absolute geographical center of Metuchen is the cash register at our regionally famous ice cream shop, What’s the Scoop? I’d bet that the real estate value in Metuchen can be calculated…

  • Reader says let the people decide on constitutional amendment

    By July 15, both Houses of Congress are expected to make a decision as to whether placing a proposed constitutional amendment before all the people, in order that the truly vast majority [people in three quarters of the states] may exercise their ultimate sovereignty to preserve the meaning of the word "marriage." It is unfortunate…

  • Obituaries

    Lenoir Stewart Obituaries Lenoir Stewart Lenoir Stewart, 83, Metuchen, died Wednesday at Mary Anne Hale Pavilion Haven Hospice, Edison. Born in South Amboy, she had lived in Metuchen since 1925. She graduated from Metuchen’s Franklin School and attended Tusculum College, Tenn. She was a secretary for Applegate Motors and General Cable Corp., Perth Amboy, where…

  • Your Turn

    Vet humbled by World War II article; embarrassed by nature of society todayEd KowalskiGuest Column Your Turn Vet humbled by World War II article; embarrassed by nature of society today Ed Kowalski Guest Column I was simultaneously humbled and embarrassed after reading Bryan Sabella’s article about local World War II veterans ("Sixty years later" The…

  • Let Americans see sacrifice made by soldiers

    As a World War II army veteran, it was patriotically gratifying to finally see a member of the American military killed in Iraq honored, and his family properly acknowledged, on TV for the sacrifice of his life in Iraq when his flag-draped coffin arrived in the United States. The mother of the dead soldier, against…

  • Your Turn

    Carl PerlinGuest ColumnUltimate costs of Your Turn Carl Perlin Guest Column Ultimate costs of ‘pay-to-play’ come at the expense of communities, taxpayers Carl Perlin Guest Column Ultimate costs of ‘pay-to-play’ come at the expense of communities, taxpayers I would like to address the issue of "pay-to-play." Here is a term that clearly indicates how a…

  • The sound of music transported listener

    I was blown away recently, but not by one of the world’s famous winds with musical names like Chinook, Sirocco or Williwaw, but by the harmonious sounds of vibrating columns of air coming from the Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony. I went to the Nicholas Music Center on the Douglass College campus of Rutgers University,…

  • Obituaries

    Marion Blackmon Obituaries Marion Blackmon Mrs. Blackmon, 58, of Middletown died June 22 at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born and raised in Bayonne, she resided in Middletown most of her life. She was a school bus aide in the Aberdeen area for several years. She is survived by a daughter,…