Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Gov’t officials circumvent flu shot lines

    My husband has juvenile diabetes. My 12-year-old son has asthma. My mother-in-law is 82 years old and has survived cancer twice. All of them have been unable to get a flu shot anywhere. Thank goodness that Vice President Dick Cheney and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and his staff received their flu shots. I can…

  • Plenty of choices to make with arrival of Nov. 2

    Tired of the campaign rhetoric, the bombardment of political commercials and the endless rows of election signs along the road? Good news: In five days, all of that goes away, if only until next fall. In the meantime, there are a few big decisions to ponder, and they don’t begin and end with the choice…

  • Sayreville needs a good, clean sweep

    I read with great interest the article regarding the garbage issue in Sayreville and the opinions voiced by Barbara Kilcomons at a recent Borough Council meeting (“Resident Asks Borough to Address Garbage Issue,” Suburban, Sept. 16). Ms. Kilcomons made some excellent points. It seems that Sayreville is becoming a free-for-all for those who do not…

  • Courts could be more fair to dads

    This is in response to Myra Danon’s “Your Turn” guest column, “Deadbeat Dads Steal Future,” that appeared in the Sept. 30 issue of the Suburban. Has anyone ever thought about the dads who struggle every day against uneven odds to be the best parent possible? Has anyone considered that every other weekend and a few…

  • Obituaries

    Ralph Patrick Mazzeo Jr. Mr. Mazzeo, 66, of Old Bridge, died Oct. 2 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. A retired hairstylist and business owner in Old Bridge, he served on the Old Bridge Township Planning Board. His wife, Noreen, died in 1997. Surviving are two sons, James Mazzeo of Barnegat and Christopher…

  • Trabucco will bring checks, balances to board

    The time for a change in Middlesex County is right now. I am extremely tired of the high property taxes, pay-to-play deals and overall lack of ethics that the current members of our Board of Chosen Freeholders have displayed in office. All one needs to look at is the Halper Farm fiasco to see how…

  • Volkert’s performance makes him the man for Ward 1

    I want the public to know that I am extremely pleased with the performance of Robert Volkert as councilman for Ward 1, and that I am going to vote for Bob this November to fill out the final year of the late Joe Hoff’s term. There has been no stronger advocate for his ward than…

  • Articles on Vietnam wall exhibit evoke memories of bro’s heroism

    Thank you for your recent articles concerning the Gonder family, the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall exhibit and Judge Roger Daley. My brother, Sgt. Freddy Bonner of East Brunswick, (EBHS class of 1965), was killed in action Dec. 31, 1968, saving his platoon from a Viet Cong ambush. He received the Bronze Star for his actions.…