Day: June 23, 2011

  • Miller in Hall of Fame after 21 years on council

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer State Sen. Linda Greenstein Monroe Township Council Vice President Miller on his induction into the New Elected Officials Hall of Fame. MONROE — Township Councilman Henry Miller has become the third sitting elected official on the local governing body to make the Hall of Fame. Miller was recently inducted with…

  • Widows, widowers panel sets meetings

    A widows and widowers social group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Congregation Beit Shalom, (formerly the Jewish Congregation of Concordia) in the Concordia Shopping Center, Perrineville Road, Monroe. The group offers discussions, dinner parties, shows, presentations and companionship. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call Dave…

  • Custom textbook fits unique 8thgrade science curriculum

    BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — When township eighth-graders head back to school in September, the Frankenstein of textbooks will be waiting for them. The Board of Education recently approved a newcustomized science textbook called “Interactive Science” for eighth-grade students, which uses several different Pearson publications to create one textbook tailored specifically for…

  • If I didn’t say it before, Pop, thanks for the cheeseburgers

    CODA GREG BEAN On Father’s Day, my boys took me out for a wonderful brunch, and we passed a few fine hours laughing, and planning for upcoming, happy events. I consider myself blessed to have such fine sons. But I also spent a lot of the day thinking about my own father, who died in…

  • Uncontrolled spending is one big reason for country’s woes

    Judith Tabert, chair of the Middlesex County Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC), rails against government spending cuts in the letter to the editor titled “Community at Risk If Government Makes Proposed Cuts” (Suburban, May 5). While acknowledging that “many” are “struggling with stagnant wages, oppressive unemployment, the unrelenting burden of housing costs and property taxes,…

  • Principal, teachers, staff real ‘American Idols’

    Recently I attended my daughter’s Salk Middle School eighth-grade commencement ceremonies, and I couldn’t help being proud of her and her achievements but also being just as proud of the work her principal, David Cittadino, and his family of teachers and administrators have done to get my daughter and the other 299 eighth-graders prepared to…

  • Seniors don’t need new economic burdens

    Medicare and Social Security are cornerstones of retirement for 47 million seniors. In New Jersey, there are more than 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries and more than 1.44 million Social Security beneficiaries, 22 percent of whom rely on their monthly checks for 90 percent or more of their income. Slashing these programs to balance the budget…

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  • Singing along

    Appleby Elementary School fifth-graders sing patriotic songs during an intergenerational Flag Day celebration in Spotswood on June 14. JEFF GRANIT staff