Category: Suburban Opinion
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Red State/Blue State
It’s my column, and I’ll cry if I want to DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN 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 GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: I’m fighting back…
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School board expects $4M boost in state aid
New textbooks, football field among funding priorities BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE – The new school funding formula approved by state legislators earlier thismonth is expected bring a 20 percent increase in school aid to the township. “This $4 million will enable us to make some modest innovations and improvements, so that we…
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Owner, staff joined together to rescue wedding reception
We wanted to share a story about how our daughter’s New Year’s Eve wedding was saved by some very thoughtful people. Two years ago our daughter, Jillian, and her boyfriend, Douglas, were engaged. They decided they wanted to have their wedding on New Year’s Eve 2007 and promptly booked a place to hold their wedding…
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Coda
Men’s brains aren’t cut out for detailed memory GREG BEAN Whenever my wife and I take a romantic walk down memory lane, remembering our years together as a couple, it always feels a little like tiptoeing through aminefield. One wrong step and BOOM! – you’re blown clean off the river. We’ll be looking into each…
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Bee a winner
Sayreville Middle School student Max Calsetta, winner of the school’s geography bee, with his teacher, Anthony Malara.
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Joseph P. Slezak
Mr. Slezak, 85, of Helmetta, died Dec. 29, 2007, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1977, he was employed as a pipe fitter with Hercules Inc., Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for more than 40 years. He was predeceased by a daughter, Balbina, in 1955. Surviving…
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Reader takes issue with content of columns
Greg Bean’s columns read like they were taken word-for-word from a newspaper in Venezuela or Tehran. His liberal leanings are so apparent, he might want to apply for the copyboy position at his favorite television station, CNN, or that bastion of a free press, The New York Times. Bush-bashing is the favorite pastime of the…
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Disability Awareness Day
JEFF GRANIT staff Brian Gray, a kindergartner at Voorhees Elementary School, looks through Jordy glasses, which magnify text for people with visual impairments, during Disability Awareness Day at the Old Bridge school Friday. The program featured assemblies for students in grades three, four and five, while the lower grades viewed displays set up by community…
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Rosemary White
Mrs. White, 71, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Jan. 15, 2008, in JFK Hartwyck at Edison Estates. Surviving are her husband, Jack; two sons, John of Jackson and Christopher of Parlin; three daughters, Ilene of Old Bridge, Nancy White of Middletown and Penny Perez of South Amboy; and eight grandchildren.AMass was celebrated at…
