Category: Suburban Opinion
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Spirit Day
PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above left, Old Bridge High School students engage in a pep rally during “Spirit Day” at the school Nov. 26, the day before its football team took on East Brunswick in the annual Thanksgiving Day game. Above right, members of the marching band perform during the rally.
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John Joseph Casey
Mr. Casey, 69, of Sayreville, died Nov. 8, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Eileen Caul field Casey; a daughter, Mary Kathleen Casey- Gifford, and her husband, John Gifford, of Monroe; two sons, Denis John Casey of Denver, Colo., and Sean Joseph Casey of Santa Clara, Calif.; three…
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Sayreville plan is bad for taxpayers, bad for environment
As one of the most visible redevelopment sites in New Jersey, the 430-acre National Lead site in Sayreville has enormous potential as a balanced brownfield redevelopment project, benefiting our economy while protecting human health and the environment. Located on the banks of the Raritan River and visible from the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State…
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Political terms should be extended
Based on the current economic situation and deep recession in our country, why don’t our lawmakers and elected officials make some amendments to our constitutions in order to elect public officials to run this country? I suggest that presidential terms should be extended to six years (two terms allowed). Terms for congressmen should be extended…
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Sons say farewell and thank you to beloved dad
Last week we said goodbye to our dad who lost his battle with cancer with courage, pride and dignity. A resident of Old Bridge for more than 40 years, he was a humble, private man who wanted nothing more in life than to be with Mom — his wife and best friend — and his…
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This season, blow up the TV and read a newspaper
Coda • GREG BEAN This is going to be a strange holiday season indeed. I knew it was off to a weird start when I stopped by the neighborhood liquor store the day before Thanksgiving to buy my annual bottle of Boggs Cranberry Liqueur. I buy one bottle of the stuff every year, and I…
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A Red/Blue imbroglio: one cheats, the other freaks
Red State/ Blue State • DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Dear Greg: Not far up the interstate from where I live, in a little town you’ve driven through hundreds of times, gasoline was selling for $1.39 a gallon last weekend. Pretty cool, huh? When I heard that, I thought about Peggy Joseph, the woman who…
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Josephine Billand Nowell
Mrs. Nowell, 81, of the Parlin section of Old Bridge, died Nov. 21, 2008, at home. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as an aerobics instructor for more than 10 years at the Parlin YMCA. Her husband, John M., died in 1992. Surviving are three sons, Michael, and his wife, Sheryl, of Hopatcong, Stephen,…
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Edward F. Lisoski
Mr. Lisoski, of South River, died Nov. 22, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1989, he was employed for many years as a window clerk with the U.S. Postal Service, South River. Surviving are his wife, Evelyn A. Saraka Lisoski; a daughter, Cheryl Tibbetts, and her husband,…
