Category: Suburban Opinion
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Crossroads project will bring tax relief to O.B.
I was not able to be at the last Township Council meeting in Old Bridge, but I wanted to voice my support for the Crossroads redevelopment plan. If I understand Crossroads correctly, it is a mix of commercial development, age-restricted housing and light retail, surrounded by open space wetlands that will make the area attractive…
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Mother is grateful to citizens, public servants
On Wednesday, Aug. 4, at approximately 11:30 a.m., my daughter, Jennifer Ippolito, and her friend, Michael Brown, were traveling in Jennifer’s car along Jernee Mill Road in Sayreville. Jennifer saw a large rock in the road and tried to avoid it. However, the corner of her tire hit the rock, which rolled along underneath the…
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Borough workers’ efforts will avert future tragedy
I would like to express my most sincere appreciation to those Sayreville employees whose efforts were so invaluable regarding the recent tragedy at Club Krome, Sayreville, where an 18-year-old Union Township teen with a promising future was shot and fatally wounded, just after leaving the Route 35 nightclub. Because of our hardworking police force, the…
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Signal is inconvenience, but it might save lives
This letter is in response to Ira Schaeffer’s letter to the editor titled “New Traffic Signal Wreaks Havoc on Route 9” that appeared in the Aug. 19 issue of the Suburban. I was a bit surprised that Mr. Schaeffer or anyone would complain about a project that after many months of study was deemed important…
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Summer program staff garners rave reviews
I am writing this letter to complement the work of Linda Zurawski (“Mrs. Z”), Kevlyn Zurawski, Mickey Sedlak and the summer counselors in the Sayreville Summer Camp parks program. The program was very well-organized and provided a multitude of activities, which the children thoroughly enjoyed. More important was the manner in which the children were…
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First-day jitters
PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Above, Jordan Lacy, 7, gets off the bus for her first day of second grade. At right, Giovanni Orta, 5, cautiously prepares to enter his first day of kindergarten at Old Bridge’s McDivitt Elementary School Wednesday as his mother, Silvia, stands by.
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Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information.
John R. Jonas Mr. Jonas, 72, of North Brunswick died Sept. 1 at home. Prior to his retirement in 2002, he was a forklift operator at Permacel Tape Corp., North Brunswick, where he worked for 50 years. His first wife, Janice Luttman Jonas, died in 1957, and his second wife, Ann Marie Gardner Jonas, died…
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Obituaries
Obituaries Katherine M. Dillon Byrnes Katherine M. Dillon Byrnes Mrs. Byrnes, 64, of Toms River and formerly Old Bridge, died Aug. 22 at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Old Bridge for more than 30 years prior to moving to Toms River two years ago. She is survived by her husband of 35…
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