Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Automotive students steer way to scholarships

    OBHS juniors third in state in timed auto skills contest BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — The next time NASCAR is in need of a technician or two for its pit crew, the auto-racing juggernaut needs to look no further than Old Bridge High School. Automotive service students Evan Rosencranz and Nicholas Van…

  • Dorothy Williams Holliday

    Ms. Holliday, 49, of Sayreville, died May 18, 2010, in Briarwood Care Center, Sayreville. She was employed as a school bus driver. Her mother, Dorothy Reynolds Holliday, died in 1994. Surviving is her father, Richard “Doc” Holliday of South River. Services were held at Carmen F. Spezzi Funeral Home, Parlin section of Sayreville. Interment was…

  • Students arrested; one charged with striking school principal

    BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — A 14-year-old male was charged with aggravated assault last week after he allegedly punched the school principal during an altercation at the SayrevilleMiddle School. Police responded to the school on Washington Road at 2:45 p.m. June 2 after the school called to report an altercation, according to Sayreville…

  • Victoria Kosciolek Slavinski

    Mrs. Slavinski, 82, of Monroe, died May 29, 2010, in McCarrick Care Center, Somerset section of Franklin. Her husband, Edward Slavinski, died in 2006. Surviving are two daughters, Joanne Caladie, and her husband, Rich, of Monroe and Regina Diverio, and her husband, James, of Andover; a sister, Tessie Smith of Linden; and two grandchildren. A…

  • ‘Freddy the Flat Faced School Bus’

    Justin Bonczek of Parlin, playing the title role of Freddy, accents the themes of tolerance and acceptance with friends Bobbie Lou, played by Hailey Nicholas (l) of Sayreville and Billie Sue, portrayed by Sasha Risko of Monroe in the Main Street Theatre Co.’s Kidworks musical production of the children’s classic “Freddy the Flat Faced School…

  • John M. Jarusiewicz

    Mr. Jarusiewicz, 67, of Old Bridge, died June 3, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in April, he was employed as a van driver with Middlesex County Transportation. Before that, he worked at DuPont, Parlin section of Sayreville, for 29 years until 1993. He was predeceased by his…

  • Golden anniversary

    Above: Virgil Grissom Elementary School students celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary May 28. Events included a ceremony, picnic lunch, tug of war and a birthday dance. Below: Students say the Pledge of Allegiance. Students sing as part of a musical interlude. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Robert Roig

    Mr. Roig, 59, of Punta Gorda, Fla., formerly of Cape Coral, Fla., and South River, died May 31, 2010, in Hope Hospice, Cape Coral. He was a member of Carpenter’s Union Local No. 1006, Milltown. He was predeceased by his parents, Anthony M. and Margaret T. Maklary Roig, and by a brother, Anthony “Butch” Roig.…

  • MaryEllen Norris Rohan

    Mrs. Rohan, 55, of Sayreville, died May 29, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Frank P. Rohan; a daughter, MaryAnne Rohan, and her fiancé, Dion Marrone, of Sayreville; her parents, Jimmy and MaryAnne Norris of Edison; two brothers, James Norris and his wife, Ann Marie, of Carteret and…