Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Ernest H. Jacobs

    Mr. Jacobs, 91, of Monroe, formerly of Spotswood, died April 12, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1984, he was employed with Continental Can Co., Milltown. His wife, Wilma, died in 1993. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Majewski, and her husband, Raymond, of Monroe; a son, Ernest…

  • Eileen Murphy Perdoni

    Mrs. Perdoni, 78, of Helmetta, formerly of Jamesburg, died April 12, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by a son, John Perdoni III. Surviving are her husband, John Perdoni Jr.; two daughters, Eileen Dalrymple, and her husband, Richard, of Phillipsburg and Kathleen McDermott, and her husband, Hugh, of Monroe;…

  • Lorraine Delores Wyckoff Clark

    Mrs. Clark, 77, of Old Bridge, died April 15, 2008. Her first husband, DanielArnielo Naples, died in 1968; her second husband, Bernard C. Clark, died in 1994; and a son, Shawne Naples, died in 1984. Surviving are a son, Daniel Naples, and his wife, Susan, of South Amboy; two brothers, John Wyckoff of Lady Lake,…

  • Arlene M. Horvath

    Mrs. Horvath, 67, of Spotswood, formerly of East Brunswick, died March 29, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a schoolteacher with the East Brunswick school district. She also was a private tutor and sang in local nursing homes. She was predeceased by her parents,…

  • If governor really wants to help residents, let him cut taxes, waste

    I could not believe my eyes when I saw Edna Gordon’s letter to the editor titled "Governor’s Actions Show Him To Be a Man of Great Courage" (Suburban, April 13). She actually called our governor courageous. Is it courageous to threaten our children with closing state parks? Is it courageous to threaten New Jersey drivers…

  • Grateful for support, eager for next election

    I would like to thank all my friends and family in Sayreville who took the time to go out and vote for me for a seat on the Sayreville Board of Education on April 15. I lost by a very small margin, and the calls that I received the next day were heartwarming. So many…

  • Wants to see reports on air quality surrounding Route 18

    I recently read that Dr. Adrian Barnett, who is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia, found that air pollution created by trucks and cars causes children, very early in a woman’s pregnancy, to be smaller and in poor health. Based on his findings, should residents living along the Route 18 corridor through East…

  • Ruling shows Board of Ed. made right call from start

    Congratulations go to the East Brunswick Board of Education for what turned out to be the appropriate decision when, in August 2006, it chose to appeal a federal court ruling in the Marcus Borden case. The board had hoped to avoid costs of up to $100,000 to pay Borden’s attorney. Indeed, it would be an…

  • Stanley M. Kamel

    Mr. Kamel, of Los Angeles, 65, formerly of South River, died April 8, 2008, in Los Angeles. A working actor for almost 40 years, he played psychiatrist Dr. Charles Kroger in the USA Network television series “Monk.” His father, Sydney L. Kamel, died in 1967; his mother, Lillian Perlmutter Kamel, died in 2002; and a…