Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Congrats, thanks go out to Charity Challenge winners, sponsors

    I want to thank the fairgoers who attended the 2008 Middlesex County Fair and helped support the 15 local area charities that participated in this year’s Charity Challenge Event. Because of inclement weather on the fair’s last day, we were not able to do our usual countdown and presentation of the sponsor prizes. However, I…

  • Amadio W. Virgili

    Mr. Virgili, 77, of South River, died Aug. 7, 2008, at home. Surviving are his wife, Mary Papp Virgili; six children, Amadio Virgili, Doreen Hamelin, and her husband, Joseph, Julie McKim, and her husband, Dennis, and Susan Makely, and her husband, John, all of South River, Marisa Van Horn, and her husband, Ray, of Old…

  • Congressman should sign Lyme disease bill

    Thank you to the East Brunswick Public Library for its kind assistance with the screening of “Under Our Skin.” The film addressed the failure of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and insurance companies to acknowledge the seriousness of Lyme disease and its devastating effects on patients. The room was filled to capacity, with…

  • Barbara L. Howarth Knoblock

    Mrs. Knoblock, 58, of Lawrenceville, Ga., formerly of South River and Monroe, died July 30, 2008, at home. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as a secretary/ word processor in the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her parents, Louis and Pearl Jaskowiak Howarth. Surviving are…

  • Susan Malinda Stoltzfus

    Mrs. Stoltzfus, 43, of North Brunswick, died Aug. 1, 2008, at University Medical Center at Princeton, following a battle with cancer. She was a massage therapist and personal trainer at her own company, Life Force Massage, Princeton. Prior to that, she was employed at Momentum Fitness Health Club, Princeton. She was predeceased by her mother,…

  • There’s no question: He took the easy way out

    GREG BEAN Coda   I remember graduate school with a certain degree of awe and loathing — in the same way you remember the pain of a major surgery, years after the scars have healed.   Even at the small state college I was attending, obtaining an advanced degree was no walk in the park.…

  • Both parties have their own poli-ninnies to bear

    DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Red State/Blue State A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson — a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist — and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: I think the most wonderful thing about the Democrats is what I call “the ninny…

  • Elaine S. Janeczek

    Mrs. Janeczek, 77, of East Brunswick, died Aug. 3, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are her husband, Joseph J. Janeczek; two sons, Joseph J. Janeczek Jr. of Franklin Park and Robert Janeczek of Helmetta; two daughters, Melanie Benson of Hillsborough and Dr. Susan Janeczek of East Brunswick; two brothers; and…

  • Margarita Pont

    Mrs. Pont, 57, of Holland, Pa., formerly of Old Bridge, died Aug. 1, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was employed as a teacher with the East Brunswick Board of Education for 20 years. Her husband, Mark, died in 1994. Surviving are two daughters, Stacey Pont and Amy Pont, both of Pennsylvania;…