Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Sayreville commuters, not other nonresidents, rate parking in O.B.

    Iam responding to Margaret M. Jelcich’s “Your Turn” column, “Residents Lack Convenient, Safe Parking,” that appeared in the Aug. 9 issue of the Suburban. I disagree with Ms. Jelcich’s opinion that Sayreville residents should not have a lot of their own. Sayreville residents were forced out of a parking area when Old Bridge built the…

  • Animals featured in county fairs treated cruelly

    There are so many ways for folks to enjoy the county fair, it’s disappointing that the cruel animal acts haven’t been eliminated (“Racing hogs to rubber frogs, it’s the county fair,” Aug. 9). The animals are continually carted from one town to the next and are treated like nothing more than equipment; they live in…

  • Lower costs at concessions; impose drink limit at arts center

    Iread the editorial titled “Party’s Over at Arts Center” on the opinion page of your Aug. 23 issue. While I agree that teen drinking is a major problem, I wondered why one of the real reasons leading to overindulgence during tailgating is never addressed. In my opinion a part of the reason is the ridiculous…

  • Drop the wine cooler, Grandma, or go to jail

    GREG BEAN Coda In the end, it looks like stupidity won over common sense at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Since July, almost 500 of the dumbest people on the East Coast have managed to get themselves arrested for underage drinking and various other liquor-related offenses at the venue, and dozens have been…

  • New rules, but same results at arts center

    Week one at the new rules PNC Bank Arts Center brought us a disturbing surprise, courtesy of the same people responsible for the ban on alcohol in the Holmdel venue’s parking lot. Despite all of the media coverage, all of the signs on the Garden State Parkway and the far larger contingent of state police…

  • Obituaries

    Jerome “Jerry” J. Torbik Mr. Torbik, 74, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 25, 2007, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. A tool-and-die maker with New Jersey Tool & Die Co., Kenilworth, he also worked for Lincoln Mold Co., Roselle, for more than 10 years before retiring in 1991. He was a U.S. Navy…

  • Teachers’ lounge gets makeover at no cost

    Home Depot staff volunteer time, donate supplies to school BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer SAYRVILLE – Lori McLafferty had a plan for the rundown faculty room at Eisenhower School. She and the other elementary school teachers would get some supplies and come in over the summer to paint and improve the room. “I thought that…

  • Rural beauty could be just a memory if mayor’s idea is enacted

    I have been a resident of South Old Bridge for many years, and I enjoy the rural atmosphere that exists in my neighborhood. I am surrounded by the 2,500 acres that Middlesex County and the township of Old Bridge purchased in the late 1990s, and I commend everyone who had the foresight to preserve a…

  • Brain-tumor group offers info, support

    Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital sponsors Brain Tumor Support Group meetings at 7 p.m. every second Monday of the month in the children’s section of the hospital, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick. The goal of the support group is to provide an environment where brain-tumor survivors and their families and friends can help…