Category: Suburban Opinion
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Jacqueline Bliven Fitton
Mrs. Fitton, 68, of Sayreville, died April 4, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was predeceased by her parents, Edward and Carolyn Bliven. Surviving are two daughters and their husbands, Kathleen and James Makowski, with whom she lived, and Nancy and Giacomo Bolon of Bethpage, N.Y.; three brothers, Robert, James and…
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Evelyn M. Hatfield Kotora
Mrs. Kotora, 77, of Spotswood, formerly of Old Bridge, died April 11, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She taught kindergarten Sunday school for 17 years at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Old Bridge. Surviving are her husband, Joseph G. Kotora; two sons, Joseph G. Kotora, and his wife, Sheryl,…
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Bypass will destroy community, wetlands
At the April 6 Borough Council meeting, Sayreville Mayor Kennedy O’Brien announced that his volunteer assistant, Karen Surrett, has been tasked with the job of assembling a mayoral advisory committee. The mayor admitted that the real purpose of this committee was to make the building of the highway more palatable to those most affected by…
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John “Jack” A. Denehy
Mr. Denehy, 81, of Toms River, died April 7, 2009, at home. He resided in Old Bridge, Charlotte, N.C., and Middletown, prior to relocating to Toms River in 1995. He was a corporate accountant at Celanese Corporation, New York City, for several years, retiring in 1990. During retirement, he was a volunteer at Kimball Medical…
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SERA commissioner’s words about mayor are disappointing
In response to the many letters written about Mayor Kennedy O’Brien and the Sayreville Economic Redevelopment Agency (SERA), as a resident who has taken interest in our community by attending SERA meetings regularly from the day of its inception (Aug. 13, 1998), I feel very disappointed in one of its commissioners, Michael D’Addio (“Mayor’s Removal…
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Ervin C. Tomy
Mr. Tomy, 82, of the Madison Park section of Old Bridge, died April 2, 1009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Alice Wade Tomy; six children and their spouses, Christine and Jack O’Brien and Susan and Scott Runkel, all of the Parlin section of Old Bridge, Thomas and Nancy…
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Residents already paying for boro’s TV station
This is in response to Donald Gallagher’s comments concerning Sayreville televising its Borough Council meetings (“Televising Meetings Won’t Affect Democracy,” Letters to the Editor, Suburban, April 9). As a volunteer for Piscataway, East Brunswick and Woodbridge’s access television stations, a former Sayreville Cable Advisory Board member, a founding member of the Jersey Access Group (www.jagonline.org)…
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Chester A. Zdrodowski
Mr. Zdrodowski, 90, of South River, died March 24, 2009, in the Elms of Cranbury. He was a teacher and principal with South River Public Schools beginning in 1946, serving as principal of Willet School 1959-1982. He was director of the South River Recreation Center for 17 years and served as mayor of South River…
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Nuclear a safe, dependable energy source
I take issue with your cartoonist’s slant on nuclear energy in New Jersey (Suburban, April 9). We have an administration that is openly allied with the liberal green parties that refuse to consider building new reactors. Oyster Creek has shown that nuclear energy is a safe technology and would solve our need for a dependable…
