Category: Suburban Opinion

Eva Longoria NBC will premiere its new half-hour comedy series “Telenovela” on Monday, Jan. 4, at 8:30 p.m. Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”) stars in this big, fun and flashy comedy as Ana Sofia, the star of a popular Spanish language soap opera. One problem, she doesn’t speak any Spanish. Other problems: Ana must manage a…

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is being celebrated by Jews around the world from Dec. 6-13.

I must commend you on an excellent article on a subject that is near and dear to my heart, “Flooding on Sayreville Street Is Considered ‘Major Hazard,’ ” (Suburban, Dec. 3). I live on Brook Avenue just around the corner from the “major safety hazard,” the frequent flooding on Singleton Street. I have lived here…

PHOTO COURTESY OF THOMAS PETERSON Democracy House, Middlesex County College’s service-learning program, recently collected more than 100 bags of food from the college community that it donated to Elijah’s Promise, the soup kitchen in New Brunswick. Pictured are Halimat Oshun of Iselin, left to right, Faculty Advisor Pattiann McMahon of South Plainfield, Coordinator Arianna Illa…

A record number of students received the largest amount of money from the Old Bridge/Sayreville Rotary Scholarship at Middlesex County College (MCC) this academic year. Thirty students received almost $66,000 at the Scholarship Reception on Nov. 19. The Old Bridge/Sayreville Rotary has a long history of helping MCC students. Since 1991, 195 students have received…

PHOTO COURTESY OF JERRY BERGEN Jerry Bergen, Bo Malyk and Bruce Rogan are attempting to identify and locate their classmates from McGuinness, Wade and Weber schools in East Brunswick from the early 1950s. Any friends or family members can contact Bergen at jerber0@yahoo.com, Rogan at rogan_ tn@comcast.net or Malyk at bonosit666@hotmail.com.

Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts has announced that beginning next fall, all incoming visual arts graduate students will receive scholarships equivalent to full out-of-state tuition in the first year and full in-state tuition for the second year of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. The scholarships reflect the school’s belief that…

Several schools in Middlesex County were recently awarded Sustainable Jersey for Schools Project Grants funded by the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA.) At an event held on Dec. 3, the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools in Perth Amboy received a $10,000 grant for installing a school garden in order to instill a life-long passion…

Arlene H. Reich Montanaro, 85, went to her eternal rest on Dec. 4 after a long illness. A Jersey (City) girl, Arlene was the great-granddaughter of Irish famine immigrants, who came to Jersey City in 1846, and the granddaughter of German immigrants, who arrived there in 1889. Arlene and her five brothers were raised by…