Category: Suburban Opinion
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Taxpayers’ cry for help could soon be answered
New Jersey homeowners struggling with unrelenting property tax increases finally have hope that, after all these years, help may be on the way. And while we’re not about to start counting our savings, the mere fact that real reform has become the chief focus in Trenton is good news indeed. The prospective tax relief comes…
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Coda
It must be the holidays, since Ralph’s eyes are red Greg Bean Nothing says the holidays like an actual buffalo skull with red ornaments in his eye sockets and a floppy Santa hat on his head. My favorite time of year is coming up – the holiday season. The time of family and fellowship. The…
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Obituaries
Catherine Zambito D’Apolito Mrs. D’Apolito, 85, of Matawan, died Nov. 16, 2006, in Bayshore Health Care Center, Holmdel. Prior to her retirement in 1986, she was employed as a registered nurse with the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, Red Bank, where she worked for several years. She was predeceased by her husband, Matthew, in…
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Funds must be spent only on that which voters approve
As we approach the end of the calendar year, the Board of Education begins the process of developing the 2007-08 school budget – not an easy task considering the many needs of the district and the desires of the taxpayers. Many people have commented that the board had the money to install a new synthetic…
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Democrats didn’t buy election; candidate lost on his own
One month before the elections for the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Andrew Tidd has filed scurrilous lawsuits against county Democrats. Every year, the hearings on these trumped-up charges are put off until after the elections. Every year, Andrew Tidd whines that the Democrats are playing politics, even though it was Andrew Tidd who…
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Family offers thanks to Old Bridge community
We would like to express our thanks to everyone in Old Bridge who has been with us through this very difficult time of losing our daughter, Ashley Barton. Losing Ashley was the most devastating thing that could have happened to our family, and we miss her desperately every day. It has given us so much…
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Residents’ messages have been gratifying, humbling
I would like to publicly thank the people of Sayreville for their numerous cards, letters, phone calls and e-mails in support of my husband, Mayor Kennedy O’Brien, over the last several months and for the messages we continue to receive. We have read every one and are overwhelmed by your outpouring of support and expressions…
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Students send their best efforts to U.S. troops
Above: Mackenzzie Mahoney (l-r), Jeremy Aluvino and Nicholas Fazzari help pack one of many boxes being sent to U.S. troops in Iraq by students at Walter M. Schirra Elementary School, Old Bridge. The third-grade class and the PTA helped raise funds to purchase and pack products for shipment. Right: Student Heather Morra draws a picture…
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‘Taming of the Shrew’
PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: Sayreville War Memorial High School students Katie Grimm and Mark Kassabian rehearse a scene from “Taming of the Shrew,” which the high school’s Drama Club will present tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. Below: Alyssa Della Fave, as “Katherine,” gives the raspberry to Victor Martinez, as “Petruchio,” during Tuesday’s…
