Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Willabees learn lessons, spread message, have fun

    Program reaches 400 students in boro elementary schools BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent CHRIS KELLY staff Kayla Shopsis and Zana Abdelrahman, both 7, pick out stuffed animals to give to people close to themwho they hope will quit smoking. The students and about 80 otherWillabees fromvarious Sayreville schoolsmeet monthly, and each takes a pledge “to…

  • Paulette Briand Doyle

    Mrs. Doyle, 100, of Old Bridge, formerly of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died Feb. 16, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1988, she was a private-duty nurse’s aide for more than 50 years. Her husband, John Lane Doyle, died in 1963; a son, Michael…

  • School vice principal performs Heimlich on choking student

    SAYREVILLE – A school vice principal is credited with helping to save a seventh grade student who began choking during lunch period at the borough middle school last week. Middle School Vice Principal Alan Squitieri was in the cafeteria around 11:50 a.m. Feb. 26 and could hear that something was wrong in another area. “The…

  • Angelo De Monte

    Mr. De Monte, 86, of Bayonne, died Feb. 21, 2008, in New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park, Edison. His wife, Josephine Cerchio De Monte, died in 2002. Surviving are a son, Anthony De Monte, and his wife, Karen, of Sayreville; a sister, Lucy Hale of the Forked River section of Lacey; and two…

  • Praises governor, offers alternative solutions to crisis

    Guest Column JOHN S. WISNIEWSKI Gov. Jon Corzine should be commended. Yes. That’s what I said. He should be commended. His frank assessment of the state’s dire fiscal condition and his desire to implement strict financial discipline is not the sort of thing we are accustomed to hearing from our elected officials in New Jersey.…

  • William J. Lambert

    Mr. Lambert, 83, of Flagler Beach, Fla., formerly Old Bridge, died Feb. 27, 2008, at home. Surviving are his wife, Regina Lambert; two sons and daughters-in-law, Gary and Jennifer Lambert of Howell and Brent and Lily Lambert of Tinton Falls; three daughters and sons-inlaw, Joyce and Dr. Lawrence Gibel of Daytona Beach, Fla., Donna and…

  • Barbara Heaney

    Mrs. Heaney, 81, of the Lincroft section of Middletown, died Feb. 17, 2008, in Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband,William J., in 1990, and by two sons, Patrick andMichael. Surviving are three sons and two daughters-in-law, Liam and Marian of Freehold, Joseph and Lynn of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Daniel of…

  • John “Jack” Robert Griffin Jr.

    Mr. Griffin, 77, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Feb. 26, 2008, at home. Surviving are his wife, Helene; two daughters, Loretta Pharaon, and her husband, Basem, and Helaine Williams, and her husband, Brian; a brother, James Griffin; a sister, Doris Peckel; and two granddaughters. A committal service was held at Brig. Gen. William…

  • Jack Simonetti

    Mr. Simonetti, 77, of Old Bridge, died Feb. 22, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Clara Simonetti; two daughters, Anna DiGangi, and her husband, John, of Millstone, and Rosemarie Gutowski, and her husband, Robert, of Old Bridge; a brother, Frank Simonetti of Old Bridge; and five grandchildren. A Mass…