Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Groups rate praise for honoring fallen vets

    I would like to send my sincere gratitude to the veterans of American Legion Post No. 211 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4699, both Sayreville, who honored my brother, Woodrow Haussermann, with a street sign in Sayreville and with a plaque at the library. It is so gratifying to know that he is…

  • Assemblyman needs lesson in basic economics

    Gov. Jon Corzine and the Democrats in Trenton reduced the support for Rutgers University by $80 million in the current budget. This reduction forced the university administration to make budget reductions at all levels. The vast majority of the reductions were in academics. Athletics was included in the reductions, and there are plans to eliminate…

  • Thieves should work for decorations, not steal from others

    Last week, some lowlife or lowlifes thought it would be nice for them to come on our property and steal our blowup Christmas Grinch. What kind of society do we live in? Last year some youngsters thought stealing the infant Jesus was a great idea. How do you have the nerve to go and place…

  • Devastation still evident in Mississippi

    Last week I and nine other AmeriCorps members of New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s Community Water Watch took a service trip down to Mississippi. We went to help with the continued rebuilding effort in an area that, a year later, is still ravaged from Hurricane Katrina. I had seen the images on TV of…

  • Voices must be heard on courtesy busing’s place in budget

    The Sayreville Board of Education is getting ready to finalize the budget that will be put to a public vote in April. Tough decisions, I am sure, will have to be made on what stays, what goes, and what can be shelved for the betterment of something else. I say to all of you in…

  • Only federal action will complement New Jersey legislation

    For the first time in decades, New Jersey’s consumers will soon have a choice of who provides their cable television service. Thanks to a law recently signed by Gov. Jon Corzine, New Jersey’s cable giants will have to shape up and fly right. Gone are the days of skyrocketing cable rates and lousy service. We…

  • Be respectful when using cell phones

    I urge all cellular-phone users to please consider others when using your cell phone while in public places such as traveling on a bus, train or plane, or visiting a hospital, doctor’s office, school, religious center or cemetery. Taj Ahmad Parlin section of Sayreville

  • Obituaries

    Doris Owens Holon Mrs. Holon, 74, of the Morgan section of Sayreville, died Dec. 1, 2006, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she was a sales associate at J.C. Penney, Woodbridge, where she worked for 30 years. Surviving are her husband, Edward F. Holon; a son, Jeffrey…

  • Board must choose lane of travel in busing issue

    Hundreds of Sayreville families were shocked and angered last spring when they learned courtesy busing would not be funded this year. They pleaded with the Board of Education and even went to the Borough Council to have it restored, but it was too late. The board had taken the item out of the budget and…