Category: Suburban Opinion
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TAG students team up to establish new cities
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer JOHN DUNPHY Oceanside Town, a fictional city created by members of the Upper Elementary School’s Talented and Gifted (TAG) program, won first place in the “Create a City” project. SAYREVILLE — What would your city look like if it were built by children? Eleven teams of…
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On Campus
Kelly Spatafora of Old Bridge recently graduated, magna cum laude, from Kean University, Union, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English. A member of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society, she was named to the dean’s list every semester during her four years at Kean. She teaches English literature to 10th-…
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Making new friends
Students from Old Bridge High School’s medical lab program walk with Marie Luckas, a resident at the Madison Elder Care Center. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Old Bridge High School medical lab student Hamad Rehman, 17, pours a glass of juice for a resident of Madison Elder Care Center in Old Bridge, as part of…
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Obituaries
Robert E. Bell Mr. Bell, 73, of Old Bridge, died April 27 in St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Della Bell; three daughters, Deborah O’Brien of Ossining, N.Y., Sue Ellen Savitsky of the Toms River section of Dover and Bonnie Lally of Brick; two sisters, Shirley Smith and Joyce Sprague, both…
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Letters
Support Smoke Free Air Act in New Jersey As a cardiologist and spokesman for the American Heart Association, I recently testified before the Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee in support of the New Jersey Smoke Free Air Act (S1926). State passage of this legislation will help limit disability and death from heart disease…
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For the Record
The Old Bridge School District is the 14th largest in the state. An April 21 article incorrectly identified the district as the fourth largest. An April 21 story in the Suburban stated that Old Bridge Councilman G. Kevin Calogera cast the sole dissenting vote against The Crossings at Old Bridge, which was before the Planning…
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It’s a burning question: Where does the time go?
Coda Greg Bean When kids are little, they figure their parents know everything. Most parents say that stage usually lasts until a couple of years before puberty, when kids decide their parents know absolutely nothing. I think it lasts until the kids ask the one question for which almost no parent has a decent answer,…
