Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Facility is housing complex, not independent living center

    I would like to truly thank you so very much for printing the letter to the editor I wrote regarding the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) on its 16th anniversary (“Waiting for ADA Laws To Be Fully Enforced,” Suburban, July 27). I am very grateful for the opportunity to express my views on many issues…

  • On budget woes and wasted money in O.B.

    Eleanore Whitaker Guest Column If the members of the Old Bridge Township Council think the residents of this town missed the council’s lack of budgeting skills, they can forget it. They pass an “ordinance,” and with a 6-3 vote, sink taxpayers $4 million in the red for repairs and upgrades at Old Bridge schools. “More,…

  • Zambrano feels ‘awful,’ and well he should

    Greg Bean Coda Just when you think your personal disgust meter can’t go any higher, along comes Fazz Zambrano to kick it into full-tilt, red-line boogie. As most people in Monmouth County know, on July 20 John “Fazz” Zambrano pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in an undercover sting operation that has netted a whole…

  • O.B. teen places among top future biz leaders

    Incoming OBHS junior earns fifth place at nat’l FBLA conference BY KRISTIN BOYD Correspondent BY KRISTIN BOYDCorrespondent Neeraja Konuthula, 16, of Old Bridge, took fifth place in the Principles and Procedures competition at the recent Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference. Neeraja Konuthula has no plans to become a jet-setting business executive who…

  • Remember Jolene Devlin when speaking of courtesy busing

    My name is Maureen Devlin. I live in Sayreville, where the courtesy busing has been cut. I have no children who have to walk on these dangerous roads anymore. In fact, I had one child, Jolene Noel Devlin, but she, too, had to cross Main Street, which is more like a main highway, to get…

  • Waiting for ADA laws to be fully enforced

    On Monday evening, July 17, the mayor and Township Council members in my hometown of Old Bridge proudly presented a proclamation regarding the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), honoring it on its 16th anniversary on July 26. When I gave a small speech after accepting the proclamation, I firmly stated that a lot needs to…

  • Criticism of freeholders based on erroneous information

    Recently I responded (“Know the Facts Before Making Statements,” Your Turn guest column, Suburban, July 6) to a letter to the editor written by Peter Trabucco (“Freeholders’ Missteps Hurt Taxpayers,” Suburban, May 25). In his original letter, Mr. Trabucco criticized the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders because he had “read a newspaper article” that…

  • Slim solves the mystery of New Jersey politics

    Greg Bean Coda If you want a job harder than the one Hercules had when he cleaned out old King Augeas’ stables in a day, you ought to try explaining New Jersey politics to a bunch of dyed-in-the-wool Red Staters. That’s the task I found before me on my recent trip to Wyoming, when I…

  • Boro taking appropriate action with water issue

    Sayreville residents should not be worried about recent reports of a “possible carcinogen” found in the drinking water in Parlin. As local and state officials have pointed out, findings released by a group called the New Jersey Environmental Work Council (EWC) reveal extremely slight traces of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), for which there are…