Category: Suburban Opinion
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Bella rates praise for vote that served community, not party
This is an open letter to Sayreville Councilman Frank J. Bella. I write this letter to personally and publicly congratulate you on your stand in voting your conscience and not following the party line. I am a lifelong Democrat. As a 19-year-old New York University sophomore, I supported and worked for President Harry S. Truman…
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Takes issue with officials’ words on education-funding cuts
New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. (D-18) and Assemblyman Peter J. Barnes III (D- 18) describe Gov. Chris Christie’s actions on the state budget as “simply wrong” (“Christie’s Action Raids School Funds, Raises Taxes,” Letters to the Editor, Suburban, Feb. 25). They describe the funds as “not state funds” but “property taxes paid…
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It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it
Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…
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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…
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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
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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,…
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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.…
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Thanks to ‘angel’ who helped in time of need
Iwas compelled to write this letter to thank my “guardian angel.” I have been living through the winters in New Jersey my entire life, and some years it is a way of life that we must shovel the snow. But this year as I was shoveling through the second big snowstorm, I was overwhelmed. I…
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Takes issue with officials’ words
New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. (D-18) and Assemblyman Peter J. Barnes III (D- 18) describe Gov. Chris Christie’s actions on the state budget as “simply wrong” (“Christie’s Action Raids School Funds, Raises Taxes,” Letters to the Editor, Suburban, Feb. 25). They describe the funds as “not state funds” but “property taxes paid…
