Category: Suburban Opinion

  • John Thomas Ench

    John, 14, of Old Bridge, died Nov. 6, 2009, in Old Bridge. He was a freshman at St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel. He was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, Therese and Thomas B. Howley. Surviving are his parents, John and Mary Ellen Howley Ench; a brother, Matthew; his parental grandparents, Dolores and John Ench…

  • Andrew C. Young

    Mr. Young, 64, of Old Bridge, died Nov. 20, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his parents, Andrew Young Sr. and Stella Madej Young; a brother, Theodore Robert Young; and a sister, Georgia Young. Surviving are his wife, Izabella; two sons, Andrew and Jonathan; four sisters, Judith Young,…

  • Time to stop using property taxes for education

    Another year has gone by and yet nothing has been done by our elected legislators to correct the unfair, and perhaps illegal, practice of funding primary and secondary education with a portion of property taxes. Why has nothing been done? Are our legislators indifferent to the problems this practice causes to the most needy? I…

  • Agnes C. Hozey

    Mrs. Hozey, 90, of Old Bridge, died Nov. 20, 2009, at home. Her husband, Leon Hozey, died in 2002. Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Michele and Dennis Rodman; a brother, Dominick Pagano, and his wife, Marie; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A Mass was offered at Most Holy Redeemer Church, Old Bridge. Interment was…

  • Arithmetickles

    ERIC SUCAR staff ERIC SUCAR staff Host Matt Wilder tells students at Sayreville’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School about the next Arithmetickles game on Nov. 25. The interactive mathbased touring show blends games, skits, audience participation and comedy to capture the attention of schoolchildren. Another photo, page 38. ERIC SUCAR staff Students at Sayreville’s Dwight D.…

  • Dorothy G. Cornell

    Mrs. Cornell, 82, of South River, died Nov. 19, 2009, in Summerhill Nursing Home, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement in 1989, she was employed as a bus driver for the South Brunswick Board of Education. She was predeceased by her husband, Peter Cornell; a brother, George “Butch” O’Brien; and a grandson, Gene Cornell. Surviving…

  • In long battle over shaky degrees, taxpayers suffer

    Coda • GREG BEAN The interminable dispute in the Freehold Regional High School District over administrators and teachers who got ginned-up degrees from an unaccredited and highly suspicious online diploma mill just won’t go away. Regular readers know the saga of the tale’s most highly visible player, FRHSD Superintendent of Schools James Wasser, who got…

  • Charles M. Haddad

    Mr. Haddad, 96, of Jackson and formerly of Old Bridge, died Nov. 26, 2009, at Bartley Healthcare in Jackson. He was self-employed as a garment maker with Charles M. Haddad & Co. for 50 years, retiring in 1985. Mr. Haddad was predeceased by his wife, Adeline Haddad, in 1983; and his siblings, Joseph, Thomas, Edward,…