Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Red State/ Blue State

    Ready for bleak days ahead DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Dear Greg: I’m writing this before Election Day, so I have no idea what the outcome will be, other than the delirious conga-line dance going on over at MSNBC, which has been under way for about a week now. (I knew how dedicated that network…

  • Vote as an American, not as demographic

    Every four years it seems to get sillier and sillier. The pundits, the pollsters and the media cite numbers and percentages based on white voters, black voters, Asian voters, Latino voters, evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, gender— ad infinitum. People who vote their particular demographic don’t seem to recognize what this is really about. I, for one,…

  • Give V.A. proper funding for health care

    On Nov. 11, 2008, we honor more than 25 million living American veterans. As young men and women engage the enemy face to face thousands of miles away in the global war on terrorism, the thanks of a grateful nation should be reflected not only in saying thank you but also in giving VA the…

  • Let voices be heard against vaccine mandate

    Last Thursday a group of people stood tall at the Statehouse to protest one of the most horrible pieces of legislation to come about in New Jersey — a flu shot mandate for preschoolers along with duplicative boosters. The flu is a bad thing. Deaths from it happen. Theoretically, a flu shot, if the right…

  • Dorothy A. Van Woeart

    Mrs. Van Woeart, 78, of Old Bridge, died Oct. 19, 2008, at Summer Hill Nursing Home, Old Bridge. Born in South Amboy, she lived in Sebastian, Fla., before moving back to Old Bridge five years ago. Mrs. Van Woeart was a waitress for the Colonial Diner in East Brunswick for 18 years. Her husband, John…

  • Dorothy Cottrell Molteg

    Mrs. Molteg, 82, a resident of Sayreville for 59 years, died Oct. 27, 2008, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. Before her retirement in 1991, she was a setup and layout person for Greater Media Newspapers for 15 years. Mrs. Molteg was predeceased by her sons, Mark, Martyn and Myles Molteg. Surviving are her…

  • Survivor tells students of Holocaust’s horrors

    Local resident was taken from loved ones at age 24 BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer JESSICA SMITH Holocaust survivor Elisabeth Gelb talks with Old Bridge High School student Jessica Lupo during Gelb’s visit to the school last week. Note: This is the first of a two-part series on Elisabeth Gelb. OLD BRIDGE — Despite the…

  • Joan E. Schwartz

    Joan E. Schwartz, 70, of the Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge, died Oct. 20, 2008, at her son’s home in Cliffwood Beach. She was predeceased by two daughters, Jessie and Jacquelyn. Surviving are four sons, Richard Schwartz of Laurence Harbor, Ronald Schwartz of Templeton, Pa., Joseph Schwartz of Cliffwood Beach, and John Schwartz of…

  • Anne Marie Melher

    Mrs. Melher, 44, of Oakdale, Conn., died Oct. 27, 2008, after a battle with colon cancer. She was on leave from her employer, Pfizer’s Inc., where she had worked for the past 10 years. Mrs. Melher was predeceased by her father, Edward Steven. Surviving are her husband, PJ Melher; a son, Christopher Yeager of Oakdale,…