Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Appreciative for support of SWMHS marching unit

    W eekend after weekend, as drivers come through Sayreville, they are bombarded by charitable groups asking for loose change or donations to this cause or that cause. Well, on behalf of one of those groups who have asked you for that loose change or that dollar bill, I’d like to thank you very much for…

  • Katherine Mary Maguire Price

    Mrs. Price, 90, of Sayreville, died Sept. 12, 2008, at J.F.K. Haven Hospice, Edison. Her husband, John T. “Jack” Price, died in 2002; surviving are her children, John Price and his wife Mary Jane, of Strongsville, Ohio; Catherine Baronowski and her husband, Carl, of Morgan; Loretta Price-Ciupinski and her husband Bill Ciupinski, of Hopewell; a…

  • Ann M. Sweeney Douglas

    Mrs. Douglas, 87, of Spotswood, formerly of East Brunswick, died Sept. 9, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, William, in 1988. Surviving are four sons, William and his wife Lisa of Brick; Paul and his wife Mariam of Martinsville; James and his wife Mary of North…

  • Back to school

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Left to right: Old Bridge High School students get ready to enjoy some grilled delights during a barbecue and club fair held on the first day of school Sept. 4 at the high school’s Grade Nine Center. Celina Yulfo (r) and Ashley Villa, both 13 and freshman students, check out the…

  • Sgt. Coleman S. Bean

    U.S. Army Sgt. Coleman S. Bean, 25, of East Brunswick died Sept. 6, 2008. Born in Wyoming, he was the son of Gregory and Linda Bean of East Brunswick. As a child, he lived with his family in Wyoming, Illinois and Massachusetts. The family moved to East Brunswick in 1993. He attended East Brunswick Public…

  • Guest Column

    Board should look at financial accountability, fiscal priorities HELEN SKARZYNSKI It comes as no shock that the Sayreville Board of Education again requires additional funds to complete yet another of its projects. I suppose it is optimistically naive to assume that when the signed contracts for the highschool renovation were agreed upon, the board members…

  • U.S. Army Spec. Michael L. Gonzalez

    Spec. Gonzalez, 20, of Spotswood, died Aug. 28, 2008, in Iraq of injuries sustained when an improvised device exploded. He was assigned to the 18th Military Police Brigade, 95th Military Police Battalion, of the 340th Military Police Company. His home unit was the 430th Military Police Detachment, Red Bank. He enlisted in the Army during…

  • Coda

    For Mr. James Wasser, the fat lady is singing GREG BEAN When my brothers and I were young, our mom was our greatest supporter, but she never let us get too big for our britches. When one of us was trying to impress someone with the knowledge we’d learned in school, and being show-offy about…

  • Peter J. Spatafora Jr.

    Mr. Spatafora, 51, of East Brunswick, died Sept. 3, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He worked as a carpenter for 25 years with Carpenters Local No. 1006, Milltown. He was predeceased by his mother, Edna Egan Spatafora. Surviving are his father, Peter J. Spatafora Sr.; a brother, Michael Spatafora, and his…