Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Freeholder director is dedicated, hard-working, nonpartisan

    Media stories of the last few months concerning Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders Director David B. Crabiel have prompted me to share my experience concerning the man. In my five years as mayor of Sayreville, I have found Freeholder Director David Crabiel to be a good and decent man, a dedicated and hard-working public…

  • Store employees rate kudos for caring, kindness

    I would like to publicly express my gratitude and appreciation to Milltown Home Depot employees Franka Damiano, Joe McDonough, Stuart Feller, Tony Parracho and Bill Reilly. I received a telephone call on Saturday, Aug. 28, from Home Depot in Milltown. One of the managers, Franka Damiano, called to tell me that my 86-year-old grandfather had…

  • Disillusioned O.B. board member resigns post

    This is a copy of a letter I recently sent to Mayor Jim Phillips. Effective today, Monday, Oct. 4, 2004, I am resigning my seat on the Old Bridge Township Planning Board. While I have enjoyed serving the township of Old Bridge in this regard, I have grown very disillusioned about the future of Old…

  • Grateful to assemblyman for stand on toll removal

    Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s letter to the editor (“State Should Commit to Removal of Parkway Tolls,” Suburban, Sept. 30) is right on target. It’s refreshing to see an elected official take such a positive position designed to help the citizens of New Jersey instead of special-interest groups. Tolls are the epitome of waste and mismanagement because…

  • Steven J. Malkiewicz Mr. Malkiewicz, 67, of South Amboy, died Sept. 20 at home. He was employed by the South Amboy Police Department for 26 years, retiring with the rank of sergeant. After his retirement, he worked as a bartender at Lagoda’s Saloon, South Amboy. Surviving are his wife, Diane Heath Malkiewicz; a son, Glen…

  • Deadbeat dads steal future

    A thief lurks amongst us. His weapons are stealth, immorality and a penchant for covering his tracks. He is a thief, as culpable as any other, perhaps worse because his victims are his children. He steals from them anyway. Unswerving in his defiance of numerous court orders to support them, he takes from them what…

  • Still waiting for sewers, after all these years

    It was interesting to read that the Genoa section of town is finally going to get sewers. It certainly has needed them for many years. In the Suburban’s Sept. 26 front-page article, “Genoa Gets Its Sewers At Last,” Arthur Haney, Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority (OBMUA) executive director, is quoted as saying that Genoa is…

  • Brazen thieves strip car of wheels in park-and-ride

    On Sept. 14 I parked my car at the Route 9 and Inverness park-and-ride in Old Bridge. My car was parked in the lot from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. When I went to the lot to get the car, I noticed that its two rear wheels were missing. My car was jacked up on…