Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Students’ Cloud 9 band gets set for high-energy concert

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Don’t be surprised if an eclectic mix of music emanates from Old Bridge High School’s auditorium doors on May 24. The school’s own Cloud 9: The OBHS Stage Band will be performing its final show of the season that evening, featuring a diverse selection of songs from…

  • When social networking sites seem very anti-social

    CODA GREG BEAN Istopped watching Jack Cafferty and Don Lemon, and most of the other anchors on CNN, when they started reading Twitter comments about the issues as part of their news presentation. There you’d have Jack or Don talking about a serious matter, like the nomination of a Supreme Court justice, and then they’d…

  • Restoring tax is not answer to school-aid woes

    In his recent letter to the editor, “Renew ‘Millionarie’s Tax,’ Save Aid to Schools” (Suburban, May 6), William Flynn, chairman of the Old Bridge Democratic Party, espouses a method of taxation, the so-called “millionaire’s tax,” that recalls the expression popularized by Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”…

  • Why punish those who work hard, make money?

    Iam writing in response to William Flynn’s letter to the editor, “Renew ‘Millionaire’s Tax,’ Save Aid to Schools,” that appeared in the May 6 issue of the Suburban. I will begin by writing that I do not claim to have loyalties to the Republican or the Democratic Party. My opinions are based on my feelings…

  • Joseph M. Villanti

    Mr. Villanti, 50, of the Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge, died May 12, 2010, at home. He was employed as an equipment operator with the Department of Transportation, Metuchen, where he worked for the past nine years. He was predeceased by his mother and father, Eileen Kafka Villanti and Joseph Villanti. Surviving are his…

  • Mary Travaglini Placco

    Mrs. Placco, 88, of East Brunswick, formerly of South River and Monroe, died May 11, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Vincent D. Placco, and by four siblings, Thomas, Santa, Theresa and Celia. Surviving are a son, Vincent Placco Jr., and his wife, Sherri, of Flemington;…

  • Lynne C. Koch

    Ms. Koch, 29, of East Brunswick, died May 6, 2010, at home. She was predeceased by a brother, Cpl. Steven R. Koch, and by her grandfathers, William Koch Sr. and Robert Glassen. Surviving are her parents, William Koch Jr. and Christine Glassen Koch of East Brunswick; a brother, William Koch III of the Somerset section…

  • George V. Mosher

    Mr. Mosher, 78, of the Morgan section of Sayreville, died May 9, 2010, at home. He was predeceased by his wife, Angela Scucci Mosher, and by four brothers, Thomas, Arthur, Richard and Robert Mosher. Surviving are two sons and their wives, Dale Mosher and Susan Thierry of Morgan and Mark and Carol Mosher of North…