Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Sayreville school board hopes to avoid layoffs

    School district absorbs 17.5 percent state aid cut; avg. tax hike stands at $88 BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Board of Education adopted a tentative budget Monday that absorbs a $3.8 million slash in state aid. However, unlike many school districts dealing with sizable losses in state aid for the 2010-11 school…

  • Robotics

    Above: Jonathan Paisis makes sure the robot is able to make it over the books and down a ramp. Below: Chester Solan (r) controls the robot students built in the new astronomy course at Old Bridge High School. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Edward Loniewski

    Mr. Loniewski, 84, of Sayreville, died March 14, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1981, he was employed as a shipping clerk at National Lead Industries, Sayreville, where he worked for 34 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Mary M. Brobeck Loniewski; and three brothers, Eugene,…

  • Valeria Ciecko Strugala

    Mrs. Strugala, 96, of Sayreville, died March 17, 2010, in Arnold Walter Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Hazlet. Prior to her retirement in 1975, she and her late husband, Frank, owned Frank’s Market, Sayreville, for 25 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank; a son, Frank Jr.; and two sisters, Lottie Wolack and Jean Bodziak.…

  • Marian J. Camin Behr

    Mrs. Behr, 90, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 28, 2010, in Golden Living Center, Old Bridge. Her husband, Kenneth E. Behr, died in 2004. Surviving are a daughter, Joan Winters, and her husband, Kenneth, of Old Bridge; two grandsons and four granddaughters; and three great-grandsons. Services were held at Rezem Funeral Home, East Brunswick. Interment…

  • Joan Helen Tita

    Mrs. Tita, 65, of South River, died March 5, 2010, in Care One at East Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Leo Tita, and by a sister, Christine Winburry. Surviving are two sons, Joseph Tita, and his wife, Annette, of Sayreville and Michael Tita, and his wife, Kim, of South River; a sister, Elizabeth…

  • Asterio T. Madamba

    Mr. Madamba, 70, of Sayreville, died March 16, 2010, in the Chateau at Rochelle Park. His wife, Virginia Quintos Madamba, died in 1992. Surviving are six children and their spouses, Marlon and Arlene Madamba of Indiana, Monique Madamba of the Philippines, Victoria and Owen Poon and Andrew and Christine Madamba, all of California, Melissa and…

  • Vera Kibalka Rosenthal

    Mrs. Rosenthal, 87, of Highland Park, died Feb. 27, 2010, at home. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael Rosenthal; a sister, Maria Kibalka; and a brother, Peter Kibalka. Surviving are a daughter, Merilyn Rosenthal, with whom she lived; a granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren. Services were held at Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church,…

  • John J. Fortini

    Mr. Fortini, 61, of Old Bridge, formerly of Manalapan, died March 17, 2010, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a manager at Gerdau AmeriSteel, Sayreville, previously known as New Jersey Steel. Surviving are his wife, Donna; a son, John of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter, Jeanna of Chandler, Ariz.; two brothers, Joe Fortini of…