Category: Suburban Opinion
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Officials should serve constituents, not banks
Big banks are ruining this country by their greed. People in office should protect the real, true bluebloods of this country, and that would be the American people who have worked to make this country great. It seems that banks and all financial institutions are pushing the American people under. Crimes are going up all…
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EMT volunteer numbers are on the decline in New Jersey
The volunteer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) community’s financial fears are becoming reality. In December 2009, then-Gov. Jon Corzine transferred $4 million from the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Training Fund to the general fund to help offset a budget shortfall. As a result, since April 1, the fund reimburses only part of the volunteer EMT’s educational…
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Successful candidate grateful to residents
Iwould like to offer a very sincere thank you to the residents of Sayreville for their support in the recent Board of Education election. For the next three years I will be dedicated to my position and will do everything possible to ensure that the students and the taxpayers are the primary focus of my…
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Rite of passage
An Old Bridge High School student works his way through the obstacle course during the Battle of the Classes on April 16. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Celeste Doré Hunter
Mrs. Hunter, 96, of Acton, Mass., formerly of East Brunswick and Florida, died March 29, 2010, in Emerson Hospital, Concord, Mass. Prior to her retirement in 1976, she was a schoolteacher with the East Brunswick Board of Education, working for 25 years at East Brunswick High School. Her husband, William, died in 2004. Surviving are…
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Edward Kodada
Mr. Kodada, 90, of the Morgan section of Sayreville, died April 3, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Jean Katz Kodada; a son, Ernest Kodada, and his wife, Patricia, of Monroe; and three grandchildren. Services were held at Carmen F. Spezzi Funeral Home, Parlin section of Sayreville. Entombment…
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Jean Ann Nesslage
Mrs. Nesslage, 72, of Old Bridge, died April 6, 2010, in Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. She worked as a teacher and then as a learning-disabilities consultant. Surviving are her husband, Donald J. Nesslage; a son, Frederick Charles Nesslage, and his wife, Jill, of St. Joseph, Mo.; two cousins, William Arace of Freehold and…
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Andrew J. Shedlock Jr.
Mr. Shedlock, 80, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died March 30, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1995, he was employed as an electrician at Sunshine Biscuit Co., Sayreville, where he worked for 20 years. He was predeceased by two daughters, Cindy Shedlock and Dorothy Hays.…
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Barbara E. Robinson
Ms. Robinson, 57, of New York City, died April 13, 2010, at home. Surviving are a sister, Beth Valdastri, and her husband, John, of Old Bridge; a brother, William D. Robinson, and his wife, Phyllis, of South River; and three nieces and nephews. Services were held at Brunswick Memorial Home, East Brunswick. Cremation was private.…
