Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Public urged to look for humane seal of approval

    A recent poll by Opinion Research Corporation International asked 1,000 adults how they prefer their charitable donations be utilized. Not surprisingly, the majority said they would be more likely to donate to a health charity that does not conduct animal experiments. But until now, there was no way of identifying “cruelty free” charities without a…

  • Car buyers deserve consumer rights

    The New Jersey Legislature should enact a law for consumers, which would require a car dealer to provide the customer a conspicuous written notice giving the customer one business day to sign the automobile purchase contract. One local automobile dealer recently smooth-talked me into signing a purchase contract on-the-spot for a brand new car. I…

  • Voters defeat budget, busing question again

    Two incumbents win re-election; newcomer joins board BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer Maria Stratton SAYREVILLE – Residents rejected the proposed school budget Tuesday and for the second straight year turned down a separate question that would have funded courtesy busing. The school budget, which called for a $122 tax hike on…

  • Board of Education election results

    EAST BRUNSWICK Budget Yes: 2,587 No: 2,549 Three three-year terms Holly Howard*2,906 Scott Luxenberg*2,730 Michael Hughes2,629 Steven Blaustein2,285 Percentage of registered voters: 18% HELMETTA Budget Yes: 33 No: 38 One three-year term Lou Adornati65 Percentage of registered voters: 5% JAMESBURG Budget Yes: 195 No: 28 Three three-year terms Patrice Faraone*175 Thomas Bodall*174 Michael Tehan*161 One…

  • Budget voted down; 3 win seats on board

    BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE – Voters gave the thumbs down to the proposed school budget, while Eugene Donofrio, Abhishek Desai and David Josselyn took the three Board of Education seats. All three candidates are new to the board, and will take the place of current board President John…

  • Coda

    We’d all feel better if the punishment fit the crime Greg Bean There was a while in the last decade when, in addition to my newspaper work, I wrote mystery novels. Four of them were published by St. Martin’s Press, and are currently out of print. I gave up fiction writing when I finally had…

  • Act locally, or warm globally

    Anytime a problem has the word ‘global’ in it, it’s easy to be frightened off. A global problem is too big for us to impact here at the local level, right? Some New Jersey leaders recognize that global warming is the product of countless local decisions. So it’s completely appropriate – and necessary – for…

  • Obituaries

    Grace M. Bivona Graziano Mrs. Graziano, 93, of Old Bridge, died April 12, 2007, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in New York City, she had resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., before relocating to Old Bridge 10 years ago. Mrs. Graziano was a homemaker. She was a communicant of St. Lawrence Roman Catholic…

  • Old Bridge board needs to be fiscally responsible

    With residents voting for school board elections and a new budget earlier this week, we all need to be reminded of the fiasco of last year. After voting down the budget, members of the Old Bridge Township Council adjusted the school budget for the year. The Old Bridge Township Council then passed an ordinance to…