Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Edward F. Baranowski Mr. Baranowski, 52, of Sayreville, died Jan. 1 in Aroostock Medical Center, Presque Isle, Maine. He was predeceased by his parents, Annette and Theophil Baranowski. Surviving are a sister, Annette “Sissy” Hockenjos of Sayreville; a brother, Barry J. Baranowski of Ashland, Maine; and two nephews, Christopher and Jonathan Hockenjos of Sayreville. Visitation…

  • Letters

    Director makes plea for blood donations In recent years, New Jersey has had to “import” more than 50,000 units of whole blood annually because our population does not donate enough blood to cover the needs of New Jersey hospitals. Our state faces an immediate shortage for select blood types, and this will likely be the…

  • Results show significance of each ballot that is cast

    Every vote counts. The phrase has been uttered countless times, and even though it is true, it’s usually not just one person’s vote that makes the difference in an election. But in November, that was the case in one Middlesex County town, and nearly in others as well. The race for a seat on the…

  • A somber toast for the coming year

    Coda Greg Bean When the United States entered World War II in 1941, my maternal grandfather — who was born in a homesteader’s sod hut in 1907 — was 34 years old. He had grown up a cowboy, ridden rodeo as a young man and taught in a one-room schoolhouse before he married my grandmother,…

  • Letters

    Food bank extends thanks The Sayreville Care and Share Food Bank would like to thank the children and teachers from the Arleth, Eisenhower, Upper Elementary and the Middle schools for their hard work in their food drive. They collected and sorted 5,500 items of food. The students from the Upper Elementary carried this to the…

  • Former candidate dismayed with handling of complaint

    Your Turn Andrew Tidd Guest Column Andrew Tidd Guest Column After months of waiting for a hearing on an ethics complaint brought against Middlesex County 2005 incumbent freeholder candidates David B. Crabiel and Camille Fernicola, along with incumbent county clerk candidate Elaine Flynn, the proceedings’ outcome was already known before fellow complainants and Republican running…

  • Don’t believe it, son. He’s making it all up

    Coda Greg Bean Over the years, I’ve made every member of my family and many of my friends cringe when I wrote about them in a column. For a long time, whenever I wrote about something one of them might consider embarrassing, I’d take the column home and read it to them before it went…