Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Old Bridge developer’s traffic stats based on incomplete study

    This letter is in regard to the article titled "Board To Continue Hearings Tuesday on Oakwoode Plan" that appeared in the Aug. 1 issue of the Suburban. Developer K. Hovnanian once again is bullying residents with its battery of high-priced lawyers and experts to convince the Old Bridge Planning Board to allow an additional 386…

  • Eliminate unneeded gov’t jobs; fund schools with savings

    Eliminate unneeded gov’t jobs; fund schools with savings On July 10 I decided to go to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJELEC) Web site to view reports of the local Republican and Democratic candidates in East Brunswick. First I viewed the Republican reports. Then I tried to view the Democratic reports, but was…

  • Patron is distressed by dirty conditions at library

    I am disappointed at what has happened to the Sayreville Public Library. I have been a citizen of Sayreville for many years, and I frequently visit the library. I enjoy the reading and reference materials that our public library has to offer. It appears as though our taxpayer money is not being spent wisely to…

  • 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. ANNETTE "TOSIA" NAWALANY BARANOWSKI, 83, of Sayreville died Aug. 1 at home. Her husband, Theophil, died in February. Surviving are two sons, Edward F. Baranowski of Sayreville…

  • Tough calls in tight times

    Old Bridge Mayor Barbara Cannon likely didn’t want to present a budget that called for a 12-cent increase in the municipal tax rate for the coming fiscal year. It’s also unlikely that she didn’t want to face public criticism for not hiring the 12 new officers the township’s Police Department has been asking for. Furthermore,…

  • Thief’s parents must be so very proud

    This is an open letter to the thief who chose to steal a young man’s chained bike while the young man was at work in Helmetta. Your parents should be proud of who they raised — next, you’ll be stealing someone’s car. I wonder how your parents would take to someone stealing their car, and…

  • Sayreville using up too much green acres, classroom space

    The approval of an additional section of Towne Lake by the Planning Board has just added another nail to the coffin of Sayreville. Mayor O’Brien, in your election platform, if memory serves me correctly, there was a statement that contained a phrase relating to "no new construction." I remembered it then when I voted for…

  • 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. ESTELLE S. BANASIAK, 84, of Old Bridge died July 21 in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Her husband, Edward S. Banasiak, died in 1983. Surviving are two sons,…

  • Tractor-trailers are danger to lives, bridges and tunnels

    More warehouses, more tractor-trailers, more danger on local roads, but federal safety regulations dating back to 1990 haven’t been implemented yet. Despite the heightened worries about terrorism, almost anyone who’s 21, reads English and can shift gears is able (within a few weeks) to get behind the wheel of a 40-ton tanker hauling gasoline or…