Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Sticky situation shows need for new legislation

    Sticky situation shows need for new legislation Members of the Sayre-ville Planning Board found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place last week. At the board’s Oct. 2 meeting, all but one member voted to deny an application for the second half of the Kaplan Co.’s 260-home Towne Lake development, off Main Street.…

  • Obituaries

    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. DENNIS VANCE, 84, of Old Bridge died Oct. 8 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Jean Kalinowski Vance; two sons, David…

  • Funds should only be used to buy land from builders

    Funds should only be used to buy land from builders It is not right that the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders spent $11 million to purchase land and development rights from another public body. The fever to purchase open space has obviously taken a new twist. The purchase of 582 acres of land and…

  • Old Bridge cigarette law will make store owners accountable

    This letter is in regard to your editorial in the Sept. 26 issue of the Suburban ("Law Places Unfair Burden on Business Community") regarding Old Bridge ordinance 43-02. We both agree that the $200 fine for selling cigarettes to minors was too little. I take exception to your assertion that the new law is going…

  • Call senators to cure telemarketing plague

    I’m so glad I pay my phone bill every month so telemarketers can have free access to my home at virtually any time, day or night. I might as well give a key to the local used car salesman and invite him to dinner. I have an unlisted phone number — at my inconvenience and…

  • Resident clarifies president’s remark: Eagle designation lasts lifetime

    When President George W. Bush came to New Jersey recently to support Doug Forrester for the U.S. Senate, the press reported that the president had described Doug Forrester as "a former Eagle Scout." That statement is not entirely accurate — Doug Forrester is an Eagle Scout. It has been shown, through third-party studies, that the…

  • Obituaries

    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. SOPHIE EGNASKO, 74, of Old Bridge died Oct. 1 in JFK Medical Center, Edison. Her husband, John, died in 1984. Surviving two sons, Bruce J. of Edison…

  • Obituaries

    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. JOSEPH ARCISZEWSKI JR., 79, of South River died Sept. 18 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He owned Archers Embroidery, South River, and Sunoco service…

  • Law places unfair burden on business community

    Law places unfair burden on business community Although well-intended, the Old Bridge Township Council’s new law forcing store owners to post signs if they are caught selling cigarettes to minors is simply the wrong approach, and is unfair to the business community. The ordinance, which affects even stores cited for their first offense, was adopted…