Category: Suburban Opinion
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Photo
CHRIS KELLY staff Sayreville War Memorial High School cheerleaders Danielle Traina (l-r), Stephanie Reyes and Giana Galasso, and Jenna Feola (back), stand atop their squad mates during halftime of the Bombers’ NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV semifinal game against East Brunswick Friday night. The Bears defeated Sayreville 13-8. CHRIS KELLY staff
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Lost in cyberspace
Around Town • AMY ROSEN Sometimes I feel as if I am hanging by the tips of my fingers trying to keep up with technology in the 21st century. I would like to think I am pretty savvy, but who can keep up with all of the new developments? My 15-year-old son and his friends,…
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That’s a big hole to fill, so he’d better get shoveling
Coda • GREG BEAN It sure didn’t take our governor-elect long to start looking like someone had whacked him upside the head with a two-by-four, did it? There he was on the news last week after a meeting with the state treasury people, saying that things are even worse than he imagined. What everyone was…
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National Recycling Day
SCOTT FRIEDMAN First-graders Hammad Bhatti (l), 7, and Lionel Smelyanskiy, 6, look at a worm from a heap of vermicompost presented by David Slicker of the Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management during an event recognizing National Recycling Day at the Virgil Grissom School in Old Bridge Nov. 16. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
