Category: Suburban Opinion

  • John J. “Popeye” Wojcik

    Mr. Wojcik, 79, of Sayreville, died Feb. 26, 2009, in JFK Haven Hospice, Edison. Prior to his retirement in 1985, he was employed as a foreman with E.I. Du Pont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 30 years. He served on the Sayreville Recreation Committee. Surviving are his wife, Jean Kupsch…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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)…

  • Mercedes Maldonado

    Mrs. Maldonado, 67, of Old Bridge, died April 5, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are a son, Heriberto Maisonet of Old Bridge; a daughter, Lillian E. Maisonet of Puerto Rico; and six grandchildren. Arrangements were under the direction of Crabiel Home for Funerals, Milltown.

  • 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…

  • In tough economy, it’s time for the perfect tax

    Coda Coda • GREG BEAN I was in the convenience store this week, listening to smokers gripe about the new 62- cent per-pack tax the federal government has imposed on cigarettes.   That means the feds now get $1.01 per package of smokes, or $10.10 per carton. In New Jersey, where they add on $2.57…

  • Agnes B. Pashytnuk Szymanski

    Mrs. Szymanski, 75, of Sayreville, died April 8, 2009, in JKF Haven Hospice, Edison. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she was employed as a sales clerk at Macy’s, East Brunswick, where she worked for 24 years. Surviving are three children and their spouses, Diane and Vernon Worles of Matawan, Debra Szymanski of Jamesburg and…

  • Responds to criticism regarding high school construction

    Barbara Kilcomons’ letter to the editor in the April 9 issue of the Suburban (“Council, Board of Ed Must Pull Tightly on Budget Reins”) takes issue with virtually every level of Sayreville government and inaccurately attributes problems with the high school construction project to my leadership. And she fails to acknowledge that I actually stepped…