Category: Suburban Opinion
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Charles Colosimo
Mr. Colosimo, 90, formerly of Moonachie and Old Bridge, died Feb. 22, 2008, in Care One at East Brunswick. His wife, Mildred Colosimo, died in 2006. Surviving are a son, Charles “Buddy” Colosimo III of Port Richey, Fla.; a daughter, Jennine D’Errico of Lancaster, Calif.; a brother, Vincent Colosimo of Old Bridge; a sister, Albina…
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John S. Swider
Mr. Swider, 82, of Sayreville, died Feb. 26, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement, he was employed for 30 years as a laborer through Laborers International Union Local No. 584, Sayreville. He later worked with his son at Swider Concrete Co., Sayreville. He was predeceased by his wife,…
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Angelo D’Apolito
Mr. D’Apolito, 80, of Sayreville, formerly of the Port Reading and Iselin sections of Woodbridge, died Feb. 17, 2008, in JFK Care Center, Edison. Prior to his retirement in 1988, he was employed as a dock foreman with Conrail, Port Reading, where he worked for more than 42 years. Surviving are his wife, Lillian Molnar…
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Dorothy Marczak Murasko
Mrs. Murasko, 87, of South Amboy, died Feb. 17, 2008, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Her husband, Stanley, died in 1990. Surviving are three daughters, Linda Simun, and her husband, J. Richard, of Edison, Janet Zagata of Marlboro and Lois Chiesa, and her husband, Robert, ofMiddletown; two brothers, Adam Marczak of South Amboy and Alfons…
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Store pickets invading right to free enterprise
Are we now going back to the early ’20s so that the unions can force stores to join them as the Mafia did? I believe in the rights of the store owners not to join unions if they don’t desire to. I do not believe the unions should be allowed to picket stores to try…
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Rose J. Doyle Fleming
Mrs. Fleming, 87, of Spotswood, died Feb. 21, 2008, at home. Her husband, Joseph A. Fleming, died in 1993. Surviving are five daughters, Janet Ranta, and her husband, Allen, of Bayonne, Rosemary Tessein, and her husband, David, of Spotswood, Catherine Kelly, and her husband, Joseph, and Joanne Gaston, and her husband, Glenn, of Monroe, and…
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Adoptees should have access to records
Recently a New Jersey Senate committee voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would allow adult adoptees to access their original birth records. New Jersey Right to Life opposes the bill even though there is no evidence that allowing adoptees to have their birth records increases abortion rates. Usually women decide to have an…
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Mary G. Cacossa
Mrs. Cacossa, 86, of Laurence Harbor, died Feb. 25, 2008, at home. She was a licensed practical nurse at several hospitals. She was predeceased by two daughters, Elizabeth Sidisin in 2006 and Penny Cacossa in 1988; a son, James Cacossa in 1951; two brothers, John and Herbert Ballantyne; and a sister, Elizabeth Keefe. She is…
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Betty Marion Schroeder Coppola
Mrs. Coppola, 85, of the Clearwater community in Spotswood, formerly of East Brunswick, died Feb. 18, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her first husband, James W. Simmonds, died in 1992. Surviving are her husband, Carmine Coppola; three children, Barbara Peck, and her husband, William, of Spotswood, James Simmonds, and his wife,…
