Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Goal is to raise competence of rehabilitators

    Your Turn Tim Steinbeiser Guest Column In response to a letter to the editor from Melissa Jacobs (“Support Needed to Preserve NJ’s Wildlife Rehabilitators”) that appeared in the April 21 issue of the Suburban, the New Jersey Association of Wildlife Rehabilitators (NJAWR) offers the following information. Ms. Jacobs stated: “Until recently, many volunteers cared for…

  • Professional advice you can take as the gospel

    Coda Greg Bean I never thought I’d come to the point in my life where I had any foolproof professional wisdom for my kids, at least any they’d listen to. But recently I had a conversation with one of my sons that made me realize there are a few things I’m fairly wise about, after…

  • Obituaries

    George E. Skibik Mr. Skibik, 67, of Sayreville, formerly of South Amboy, died July 22 in Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice, Edison. Prior to his retirement in 1998, he was employed as a baker with Continental Bakery, East Brunswick, where he worked for 27 years. Surviving are his wife, Faye Perfinio Skibik; two sons, George…

  • Phasing out the fat at school cafeterias

    Old Bridge, Sayreville adopt new policies on foods, physical activity BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Do you want fries with that?Sorry, but that question is becoming rare in public schools as they begin implementing new programs in an attempt to curb the childhood obesity epidemic in America. The Healthy Choices, Healthy…

  • Letters

    Councilman’s actions reveal more than his words At a recent Old Bridge Township Council meeting, Councilman Patrick Gillespie sponsored a resolution that requested a traffic-impact study on county Route 516 in the area of the Old Bridge/Matawan border. The resolution was requested because of the proposed development that is planned for the area. The resolution…

  • State should act soon on sex offender zones

    Sayreville is part of a fast-growing number of New Jersey towns looking to create what have been dubbed “pedophile-free zones.” The measure bars certain convicted sex offenders from living near areas that children regularly use. The borough joins a number of Monmouth County municipalities, including Matawan, Keyport, Keansburg and Marlboro, that have either adopted or…

  • Obituaries

    Francis H. Shiu Mr. Shiu, 68, of Marlboro, died July 23 at home. Surviving are his wife, Kandar; two daughters, Melissa of Philadelphia and Pauline of New York City; his parents, Sung Kai and Tam Yuet of Hong Kong; four brothers, Daniel of Queens, N.Y., Ronald of London, David of Toronto and Michael of Houston;…

  • Letters

    Privatization wreck must be stopped I guess it’s true that if you live long enough, everything comes around again. We now find ourselves staring down the barrel of yet another privatization scheme, this time a toll road, yet. The recent Your Turn guest column by Assemblyman John Wisniewski, Assembly Transportation Committee chairman, (“Privatizing Road Won’t…

  • States rushing to curb eminent domain abuse

    Coda Greg Bean Perhaps no U.S. Supreme Court ruling in recent memory — outside Roe v. Wade or the one that gave George W. Bush his first presidency — has generated the national anger of the court’s recent decision on eminent domain. The 5-4 ruling said that the city fathers in New London, Conn., had…