Category: Suburban Opinion

  • EMTs motivated by desire to help neighbors Your Turn

    Guest Column Frederick L. Steinkopf Among the indelible images of Sept. 11, 2001, is the continuous throng of dazed, disheveled, soot-covered people streaming from Manhattan. Often forgotten are the thousands of emergency medical first responders who made their way to ground zero or remained stationed on this side of the Hudson River to receive the…

  • A new entry in the book of lame excuses

    Coda Greg Bean I remember the time my cousin, Danny, ate three cans of pork and beans warmed Boy Scout-style over an open fire. The afternoon was a lot of fun, but when we came back to grandma’s farmhouse that evening, Danny was — not to put too fine a point on it — starting…

  • Letters

    Dedicated state income tax is good choice for education funding Frank Coury, in his letter to the editor (“Regressive Property Tax Should Not Continue to Fund Education”) in the May 12 issue of the Suburban, stated that a dedicated state income tax is the way to fund primary and secondary education. He also stated that…

  • Sayreville road project deserves the fast track

    When it comes to projects as badly needed as the proposed improvements at Bordentown Avenue and Ernston Road, there is no reason why Sayreville should have to wait 10 years or even half that for work to be completed. Certainly, there is plenty of red tape and procedural issues that must be addressed, but Middlesex…

  • Retail center to benefit O.B.

    Old Bridge Township had good reason to approve, and even celebrate, a commercial development known as The Shoppes at Old Bridge, a “lifestyle center” to be located at Route 9 and Texas Road. The Stanbery Associates shopping center will bring far more than nationally known retail stores to the township, it will pump much-needed tax…

  • Residents have right to view meetings

    Your Turn Linda Seiler Guest Column Linda SeilerGuest Column This is an open letter to Mayor Jim Philips and the Old Bridge Township Council. On numerous occasions I have come before the council to request that council agenda meetings (as well as meetings of critically important township boards and agencies) be televised on the Old…

  • New playground opens for Cheesequake kids

    BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer OLD BRIDGE — After more than 80 years of doing without, Cheesequake Elementary School finally has a place for students to play. The school dates back to the 1920s, according to Principal Joanne Feldman. And since that time, students have never had a playground or field…

  • Obituaries

    Katharine Zalepka Atkinson Mrs. Atkinson, 86, of East Brunswick, formerly of Sayreville, died May 11 in Robert Wood Johnson University, New Brunswick. Her husband, Frank Atkinson, died in 1976. Surviving are two daughters, Frances Rupp of Surf City and Sharon Atkinson of Sayreville; a son, Frank Atkinson of Sayreville; a brother, Steve Zalepka of Hillside;…