Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Your voice … your vote

    CORNER OFFICE PETER SMYTH Iam always amazed when I talk to young people and they tell me they have not voted. It is a privilege we often take for granted. Now that we are into September, the traditional start date for political campaigns to kick into high gear, the stakes are incredibly high. We are…

  • Francisco Acosta

    Mr. Acosta, 72, of Old Bridge, died Sept. 4, 2010, at home. He was employed as a bus driver with NJ Transit for more than 20 years. Surviving are his wife, Raquel Acosta; a son and daughter-in-law, Carlos and Lisa Acosta; a daughter and son-in-law, Marlene and Lee Jupinka of Old Bridge; his mother, Ana…

  • Diane E. Dukay

    Mrs. Dukay, 68, of South River, formerly of Sayreville, died Sept. 9, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 2005, she was employed for eight years at Grant Plumbing Supply, North Brunswick. Before that, she worked in the accounting departments of several area banks. She was predeceased by…

  • Antoinette “Toni” Ivancoe

    Ms. Ivancoe, 47, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 25, 2010, at home. Prior to her retirement in 2005, she was employed as a dental technician at the office of Marshall Fleer, D.D.S., East Brunswick, where she worked for 26 years. She was predeceased by her father, Jules Ivancoe. Surviving are her mother, Dorothy Byczkowski Ivancoe;…

  • Rudolph Kovacs

    Mr. Kovacs, 82, of Sayreville, died Aug. 31, 2010, at home. His wife, Elisabeth, died in 2003. Surviving are two daughters, Susan Restine, and her husband, Paul, of Monroe and Linda Kovacs, and her husband, Grant Brown; and three grandchildren. Services were held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy. Entombment was in Franklin Memorial…

  • Kindergarten students and teacher John Tichio

    Kindergarten students and teacher John Tichio sing and dance to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” on the first day of school at Grissom Elementary School Sept. 7. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Back to school

    Grissom Elementary School kindergartner Nicholas Persing hangs up his backpack Sept. 7 as the first day of school gets under way. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • H. Gainer Noble

    Mrs. Noble, 88, of Ohio, formerly of Sayreville, died Aug. 18, 2010, in Springboro, Ohio. Her husband, James R. Noble, died in 2009. Surviving are a daughter, Judith A. Walker; three grandsons, Todd Robert Walker, and his wife, Melinda, Brian Howard Walker and James Walker; and 11 grandchildren. A Mass was offered at Our Lady…

  • Mary Rinaldi

    Mrs. Rinaldi, 95, of the Golden Living Center at Old Bridge, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Chelsea Assisted Living at East Brunswick, died Aug. 12, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She was predeceased by her husband, Anthony J. Rinaldi, and by five sons, John, Joseph, Anthony, Raymond and Christopher. Surviving are…