Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Disagrees with rent recommendation

    I was appointed by Mayor Barbara Cannon to the Fair Rent Committee to be a tenant representative. As a tenant advocate, I could not vote for the committee’s recommendation to raise rent control to 4 percent, with a 2 percent moratorium for seniors. I feel the recommendation is wrong for a number of reasons. The…

  • Sayreville councilman’s disparaging remarks were erroneous

    As a member of the Sayreville Environmental Commission since Jan-uary 2000, I feel compelled to respond to Councilman Thomas Marcinczyk’s blatantly erroneous statements regarding the commission. In the July 11 issue of the Suburban, Mr. Marcinczyk’s guest column alleged that the environmental commission engaged in misdeeds, manipulated meeting schedules, and ignored his requests to change…

  • Restructure, do not privatize, Old Bridge’s animal shelter

    I am writing in regard to the article titled "Proposal To Privatize Shelter Is in Dispute" on the front page of the July 11 issue of the Suburban. The Old Bridge shelter was instituted as a care/adoption facility to help homeless and abandoned animals in our community. While I, of course, am sympathetic to Barbara…

  • Guest Column

    Michael D Michael D’Addio Official responds to councilman’s charges I would like to set the record straight about Councilman Thomas Marcinczyk’s wild and self-serving accusations and your support of them (Suburban, July 11). Greg Camerato is not a Republican contributor, nor has he ever worked for a Republican candidate. He is not even a Republican…

  • Irked by senator’s stand on nuclear waste storage

    Yucca Mountain makes sense to most New Jerseyans ("Nuclear Waste Transport Along Rail Lines Opposed," Sentinel and Suburban, July 11). We want nuclear waste out of New Jersey. The Yucca Mountain solution is sensible because it stores waste underground in the uninhabited desert and out of our back yards. Some have concerns as to 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. GENEVIEVE C. ZUKOWSKI BORYSEWICZ, 76, of South River died July 11 in Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center, Edison. Prior to her retirement in 1993, she was…

  • 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. VIOLA M. SEMASKO GALLEY, 78, of Williamstown died July 7 at Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Turnersville. Born in Sayreville, she lived there until moving to Williamstown six months…

  • Time, money and energy are being wasted in Sayreville, thanks to an out-of-left-field zoning amendment that for some reason has been placed on the tables of the Planning Board and the Borough Council.

    Time, money and energy are being wasted in Sayreville, thanks to an out-of-left-field zoning amendment that for some reason has been placed on the tables of the Planning Board and the Borough Council. And now, some officials are looking to waste more people’s time by taking this issue to state and even national agencies, which…

  • Councilman claims foul play in master plan amendment efforts

    I am writing in response to [Zoning Board member] Michael D’Addio’s unfounded and unspecified accusations of ethics violation. To begin, D’Addio is yet another in a series of hatchet men unleashed at the bequest of Sayreville Mayor Kennedy O’Brien’s administration. His assignment: to distract the public’s attention by pushing the blame on someone else and…