Category: Suburban Opinion

  • O.B. residents need to get involved, stop officials’ bad behavior

    The Jan. 24 Old Bridge Township Council meeting was the latest installment in that wacky process we call our town government. I have been watching these meetings and keeping track of events since summer 2004. My interest really peaked when the Crossroads issue came to pass. Since then, I have been amazed at the conduct…

  • Resident would welcome restoration of rail service

    I am a resident of Jamesburg for five years now, and I was pleased to find out that NJ Transit had plans to restore train service from Lakehurst to the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. I have also found out that the last time our town had train service was in 1962, when the…

  • Officials must find long-term solutions to road congestion

    The Sentinel editorial, “Truck Traffic Figures Scary for Residents of Middlesex” (Jan. 20) alerts us to the present view of a huge increase in truck traffic in Middlesex County. The Sentinel rightfully recommends that more money and effort should be spent on trains, presumably to decrease truck usage and increase freight train usage. The perception,…

  • School start times causing some grief

    Board considering possible solutions to traffic problems BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — The Board of Education is hoping adjusted start times for two schools will help ease traffic woes. “The time’s are definitely going to change,” board President Al Cox said. “[But] the time’s are not yet set.” Sayreville…

  • Obituaries

    Albert Matthew Tunyla Mr. Tunyla, 86, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 11 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy. His wife, Katherine McDonough Tunyla, died in 1992. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Kubina of Old Bridge; two sons, Edward Tunyla of Sayreville and Albert Tunyla of Boise, Idaho; a sister, Pauline Roman of Maryland; six…

  • Don’t waste time; build new schools

    With all that is going on with the restructuring of the schools because of the growing population in Old Bridge, why doesn’t anyone focus on fixing the problem instead of putting a Band-Aid on it? We need more schools. If we can continue building residences, we need more schools to accommodate the growing population. It…

  • Give organs first to those would donate their own

    This letter is in reference to the article titled “Transplanted Heart Gives Woman New Life” that appeared in the Jan. 13 issue of the Suburban. Heather Hornecker was very lucky to get a heart transplant. More than half of the people who need an organ transplant in the United States die before they get one.…

  • Alumni form ‘dedicated unit of music makers’

    When you opened the doors to the Nicholas Music Center Dec. 18, the warm air escaping into the night was infused with the lovely harmonious sounds of about 60 people playing wind and percussion instruments. It’s odd, but if those 60 people were talking all at once their voices would create only dissonant noise, but…

  • Truck traffic figures scary for residents of Middlesex

    It’s certainly not great news that our county is not just the statewide leader in truck accident fatalities, but that it will also see the greatest increase in future truck traffic itself. It’s downright horrifying, in fact, to learn that the volume of trucks on Middlesex County roads is expected to grow by 84 percent…