Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Edwin Sierra Mr. Sierra, 46, of Middletown, died Oct. 16 at home. Born in Florida, he had resided in New York City and Northvale, Bergen County, before moving to Middletown in 1980. Mr. Sierra was the owner/operator of Absolute Audio, Middletown, the past 10 years. He was a member of Calvary Chapel Church, Old Bridge.…

  • Board reconsiders name of former Samsel School

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — To move forward, the Board of Education might try looking to the past. Carol Kadi, president of the Sayreville Historical Society, suggested last week that school board members consider unearthing decades-old minutes from their archives, focusing on meetings when a decision was made to…

  • Letters

    Facts show Makransky has held taxes down, served conscientiously As a diehard independent who refuses to register with any political party, I make it a point to read up on all sides before I vote. After getting and reading the Dennis Grobelny and Rory Zach ads criticizing Frank Makransky on taxes, one needs to get…

  • His return is welcomed; his departure was wrong

    There will be a familiar figure on the football field this Friday night when East Brunswick High School plays J.P. Stevens High School in Edison — Marcus Borden. After missing one game and a week of practices following his controversial departure Oct. 7, the veteran football coach rescinded resignation on Monday and returned to his…

  • Panos fights partisan politics, tax increases, corruption

    Your Turn Pete Trabucco Guest Column Like most residents in Old Bridge, I am pretty tired of seeing another strip mall and housing complex go up in the center of our town. I think we can all agree that under Mayor Jim Phillips and a Democratically held Township Council, there has been a major increase…

  • Monmouth County, where treasure is in the ground

    Coda Greg Bean You just can’t make this stuff up. Last week, when U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced the formal indictment of Monmouth County developer and strip club operator Anthony Spalliero on 14 counts of bribery and mail fraud, the actual text of the indictment read like the script for one of the “Godfather”…

  • Obituaries

    Kenneth W. Hunter Mr. Hunter, 73, of Old Bridge, died Oct. 7 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 1995, he was the controller for Sunshine Biscuits, Woodbridge, where he worked for 45 years. Surviving are his wife, Claudia Wright Hunter; a son, Scott Hunter of Old Bridge; a…

  • Letters

    Dasaro responds to Bean column, discusses platform Greg Bean wrote: “If their only communication with would-be voters comes in the form of attack advertising against their opponent — as Flynn and Dasaro have done recently — that clearly indicates that they have no ideas of their own upon which to base a campaign.” Apparently Greg…