Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Elaine S. Bruhn-Szegeti

    Mrs. Bruhn-Szegeti, 74, of South River, died June 12, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1991, she was employed by DuPont, Parlin section of Sayreville, where she worked for 23 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank Szegeti; four brothers, Robert Bruhn Jr., William Bruhn, Donald…

  • Sarafina Guarneri Anderson

    Mrs. Anderson, 68, of Sayreville, formerly of Old Bridge, died June 5, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 2005, she was employed as a bus aide with Laidlaw Transit, Morganville section of Marlboro. She was predeceased by a daughter, Dawn Anghelone, and by her parents, Vincent and…

  • Robert P. Schuler Sr.

    Mr. Schuler, 81, of Monroe, died June 8, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a computer operator with Ford Motor Co., Edison, where he worked for 29 years. Surviving are his wife, Eleanor Klinger Schuler; a son, Robert Schuler Jr., and his wife, Kim, of…

  • Margaret Kierst Frey

    Mrs. Frey, 98, of South River, died June 12, 2010. She worked for many years as a hairdresser and beauty-culture instructor and owned a beauty school, Winfred Beauty Academy, Perth Amboy. She was predeceased by her husband, Adolph. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Alan and Barbara Frey, and a daughter and son-in-law, Ava and…

  • Practical advice for grads: once more into the breach

    CODA GREG BEAN As happens every year at this time, we’ve heard a lot of graduation addresses filled with uplifting exhortations that basically come down to “be the best that you can be.” I think First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to graduating high school students in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood was the most moving of…

  • Cutting PILOT money breaks public trust

    With New Jersey’s unprecedented budget deficit, Gov. Chris Christie is proposing unprecedented spending cuts. But cutting and possibly phasing out the Payment in Lieu of Taxes program breaks trust with the public and will discourage towns from protecting their critical open spaces and natural lands. When open space or farmland is acquired for preservation purposes…

  • Join Christie to get Cap 2.5 on the ballot this November

    Instead of sweeping our problems under the rug for the future, Gov. Chris Christie is changing the status quo in Trenton by setting a course to help make New Jersey affordable again. For nearly 30 years, Trenton politicians have ignored New Jersey taxpayers’ cries for relief. They’ve taxed us with an incredible 115 new increases…

  • Michael Joseph Gill

    Mr. Gill, 25, of Old Bridge, died June 8, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his maternal grandfather, Frank J. Boscia. Surviving are his parents, Stephen and Deborah Colamonico; two sisters, Gina and Stefani Colamonico; his maternal grandmother, Angelina Boscia; his paternal grandparents, Stephen M. and Anita Colamonico;…

  • Jonathan Edward Ogle

    Mr. Ogle, 77, of the Whiting section of Manchester, formerly of North Brunswick, Old Bridge and Plainsboro, died June 8, 2010, in the Elms of Cranbury. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was a computer-systems analyst with Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick, where he worked for 40 years. He was predeceased by a brother, Henry…