Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Horseracing industry must ban whips

    Jockey Jeremy Rose was recently suspended from racing for six months after whipping a horse so severely that her eye hemorrhaged. Anyone who watched the Kentucky Derby could see Eight Belles being whipped down the home stretch before she collapsed with two broken ankles. Last year, Russell Baze — the winningest jockey in thoroughbred racing…

  • Legislators thanked for preservation of Shore Fund

    The Jersey Shore Partnership, on behalf of everyone who enjoys the shore, thanks the legislators who helped preserve the annual $25 million stable source of funding for shore protection and beach renourishment. The Partnership understands the tight fiscal times everyone is facing, but New Jersey has become a leader in shore protection. To take money…

  • Legion offers banners to military families

    In wars past, seeing a Blue Star Service Banner in the window of a home said a family member was in the armed forces of the United States. Today America is at war against terrorism, and Blue Star Service Banners are back. The sight of Blue Star Banner in a home is to remind us…

  • Mary M. Rusin Michalik

    Mrs. Michalik, 82, of Sayreville, died Aug. 12, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a seamstress for many years at Komar’s, South Amboy. Surviving are her husband, Edwin; a daughter, Rose Marie of Sayreville; a son, Michael, and his wife, Eileen, of South Amboy; two…

  • Residents should fight to have toxic waste cleaned up

    As a college student studying both earth and political science, I have come to understand the power residents have to impact their local environment. New Jersey currently has more than 20,000 toxic waste sites, the most of any state in the nation. If left unremediated or undetected, toxic sites will threaten human health and the…

  • Elaine A. Schickler Kingsbury

    Mrs. Kingsbury, 68, a resident of Sayreville for 42 years, died Aug. 14, 2008, at home. Before retiring in 1995, she was director of the Pre-K program at St. Mary’s School in South Amboy for six years and a self-employed piano teacher for 30 years. Mrs. Kingsbury is survived by her husband of 43 years,…

  • Helmut Stab

    Mr. Stab, 84, a resident of Sayreville since 1925, died Aug. 14, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Before his retirement 22 years ago he worked for the U.S. Postal Service in South River for 10 years and for National Lead Industries in Sayreville for 32 years. Mr. Stab was a U.S.…

  • William J. Wynne Jr.

    Mr. Wynne, 79, of Old Bridge, died July 12, 2008, in Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice, Edison. His wife, Joan T. Hess Wynne, died in April. Surviving are five daughters, Kathryn Vassallo, and her husband, Ed, Denise Cook and Bob Grootegoed, Ann Sorrentino, and her husband, Albert, Rita Wilkos and Ed Michaels, and Deirdre Bogue,…

  • Barbara Ann Stader

    Barbara Ann Stader, 65, died Aug. 19, 2008, at Kennedy Health Care Center, Turnersville. Born in South River, she had resided in Totowa before moving to Williamstown in 1980. She was predeceased by her parents, Philip and Julia Stader, and her brothers, John Connors, Kenneth Stader and Charles Stader. Surviving are her sisters, LaVerne Strincoski…