Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Municipal complex is more appropriate site for proposed YMCA

    Exactly when did the 165 acres of land off Route 516, west of Jake Brown Road in Old Bridge, become the proposed site of a YMCA facility? Wasn’t this property to be preserved as a park to honor the memory of the late councilman Peter Mannino? I support the proposed site for the YMCA facility…

  • New Sayreville Young Dems group aims to increase awareness

    I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Sayreville Young Democrats Organization. We are a nonprofit organization designed to introduce politics to the younger generation. Our goal is to increase voter turnout by registering nonregistered individuals, through education on the issues, and by discussing how these issues affect our lives. Many of us…

  • Resident’s trees damaging driveway and lawn, creating hazard

    This letter is in response to Jeanne McLarney’s letter to the editor extolling the virtues of the Sayreville Shade Tree Commission ("All-Volunteer Shade Tree Commission Benefits Town, Residents," Suburban, Jan. 23). Peter, who is her husband, is the inspector who rejected my husband’s request to remove trees damaging our driveway and lawn ("Resident Has No…

  • More concerned with revenue than animals

    I just read an article ("Plan for Offices/Retail and Two Homes on Hold," Suburban, Jan. 23) about more building in Old Bridge at Route 516 and Jake Brown Road. We need more open space taken away from our animals so that we can find more dead animals on the road. When is Old Bridge going…

  • Tree panel’s gifts provide useful lesson for Sayreville students

    In response to the letter to the editor from Ed Kryzkowski (Suburban, Jan. 16), who feels that the Sayreville Shade Tree Commission should be dismantled, I disagree, and would like to offer my opinion on the value of the commission. The Sayreville Middle School PTA Beautification Committee during the years 1991-1996 was very much concerned…

  • Residents must have the right to remove their own trees

    We all agree that there is nothing "lovely as a tree" — trees are nature’s oxygen machines, and they beautify towns. However, there comes a time when too much good can and does cause pain. We have trees wrapping around our sewer pipes, roots crawling into basements and pulling up walkways, ruining any chance of…

  • Crowding at high school projected to get worse

    Situation, projectionsat Sayreville High Schoolfocus of ad hoc panel By jennifer domeStaff Writer Situation, projections at Sayreville High School focus of ad hoc panel By jennifer dome Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI Students crowd the hallways at Sayreville War Memorial High School on the way to their next class. SAYREVILLE — In the empty,…

  • GEORGE DOUGLAS WOODLEY, 68, of Old Bridge died Jan. 20. Prior to his retirement, he was employed by the state of New Jersey Department of Transportation. He was a retired member of the New Jersey State Law Enforcement Officers Association and an associate member of the Fraternal Order of Police, Jersey City. Surviving are his…

  • Our View

    Park the Y at Mannino Let’s put it to the residents of Old Bridge: Where should Old Bridge officials site the proposed YMCA? The township has two options: have it built at the vacant, undeveloped Peter A. Mannino Park, or at the municipal complex, where eight tennis courts will have to be removed and possibly…