Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Elsie M. Horvath Scibek Mrs. Scibek, 82, of Glen Burnie, Md., formerly of Sayreville, died Nov. 5, 2006, at her daughter’s home in Glen Burnie. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a custodian with the Sayreville Board of Education, where she worked for 10 years. Her husband, Walter Scibek, died in 1974, and…

  • Cops can’t tell the real guns from the ‘replicas’

    Greg Bean Coda Instead of messing around with things like keeping trans fats away from our french fries, I have a suggestion for our local representatives in the state Assembly that might save some young lives now. Last week, cops in Holmdel caught a group of local boys with a replica handgun they planned to…

  • Take day to reflect upon veterans’ sacrifices

    Freedom can be defined as “the power to make one’s own choices or decisions without constraint from within or without; autonomy; self-determination.” Today we are free to choose our religion, express our thoughts and to be what we want to be. We are free to make decisions about our lives – decisions that in some…

  • An informed voter makes the best decision at polls

    Greg Bean Coda As we count down to the elections, I’ve been taking calls from local politicians and their handlers wondering if they’ll get our endorsement before voters go to the polls. I always tell them no. Fact is, we stopped making editorial endorsements of candidates several years ago for a variety of reasons. In…

  • Letters misrepresent candidate’s record, view on taxes

    I am writing in response to the Oct. 12 Suburban Your Turn guest column (“Council Must Return to Its Bipartisan Roots”) and the Oct. 26 letter to the editor (“Change in Council Will Mean More Effective Government”), both written by Irving Tischler, Sayreville Republican Party treasurer, regarding the Sayreville Borough Council election. Both letters misrepresent…

  • Fall Festival

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Dynamic Duo brothers Anthony DeWise, 16 months, as Robin, and Robert 5, as Batman, arrive at Sayreville’s Wilson School for the PTO’s Fall Festival Friday.

  • Voting more than a right of citizenship for Americans

    It isn’t the right to vote that keeps government responsive to those whom it governs, it’s those who vote who accomplished this miracle of government. Voting is more than just a right of citizenship for American citizens, it’s their duty, their responsibility, their obligation. Today more than ever before, this country needs the political involvement…

  • Old Bridge ROTC cadets learn through teamwork

    BY MARLENE CANTY Staff Writer BY MARLENE CANTYStaff Writer Old Bridge High School students in the Air Force Junior ROTC program stand at attention during their recent trip to Washington D.C. OLD BRIDGE – A group of 61 high school students in the Junior Air Force ROTC program won Honor Unit status including ribbons, medals…

  • Defends merger concept; smoking on field must be stopped

    I was very happy that Cherise Cannici (“Why Should One Team Continue To Suffer?,” Your Turn, Suburban, Oct. 19) agreed with my recent guest column regarding the combining of Pop Warner football teams here in Old Bridge (“Time for Old Bridge Pop Warner Teams To Merge,” Suburban, Oct. 5). However, in her recent column, she…