Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Note to Readers

    The issue of Oct. 24 will be the final edition that will feature letters discussing candidates in the Nov. 6 general elections. All letters must be received prior to noon Monday, Oct. 22 for consideration in that week’s issue. Letters from candidates themselves, campaign chairs, sitting public officials or the immediate family members of candidates…

  • There’s no substitute for experience on the road

    GREG BEAN Coda Last week, there was yet another story in one of our newspapers about a teenager killed in a horrific auto accident. This time the accident happened in East Brunswick near the Brunswick Square Mall. Dead was 16-year-old Dana Centanni of Middletown. Badly injured was 16-yearold Lindsay Capatasto, also of Middletown. She was…

  • Sometimes in relationships things are just ‘meant to be’

    CLARE MARIE CELANO Girl Talk There’s a Yiddish expression I fell in love with the moment I heard it – beshert. It means “meant to be.” Like karma and serendipity, this phenomenon is nothing less than a message from God. Sometimes beshert comes to us as intimate relationships, friends, lovers, angels even, on our path…

  • Sulikowski displays leadership, integrity, independent thinking

    Wanted: People who cannot be bought, whose word is their bond, who will not lose their individuality in a crowd, who will make no compromise with wrong, and who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular. I have observed these qualities in Matthew Sulikowski, the independent candidate for…

  • Resident hopes new VA secretary will be better qualified

    During the past year or so, I’ve submitted several letters to your fine paper regarding the sad state of the Veterans Administration, led by the incompetent and ignorant R. James Nicholson. Veterans, our hopes and prayers have been answered and by none other than Secretary Nicholson himself. I guess it is better to resign than…

  • Privatization has destroyed the arts center

    Icommend Sen. Joe Kyrillos and Assemblywoman Amy Handlin for having the courage to take a stand on the situation at the PNC Bank Arts Center, and hope that their colleagues in the state Legislature will move quickly on hearings and action to set this situation right. The current so-called “arts center” is the direct opposite…

  • School spirit

    JEFF GRANIT staff Third-grade teacher Diana Diercksen is introduced along with other teachers during the Sept. 30 pep rally at the Harry S. Truman Elementary School.

  • Team spirit

    Right, Old Bridge High School Vice Principal Vincent Sasso (l) and school athletic trainer Steve LaRegina struggle as they try to pass each other on the catwalk, part of the Project Adventure outdoor course, behind the high school during Monday’s inservice day, when faculty and staff engaged in teambuilding exercises. Many teachers volunteered to use…

  • Truman School’s theme is teamwork for 2007-08

    School focuses on motivational theme to accomplish goals BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Harry S. Truman Elementary School Principal Linda Coffey celebrates the school theme with help from some pom poms during the Sept. 30 pep rally. SAYREVILLE – Students and staff at the Harry S. Truman School are showing that, together,…