Category: Suburban Opinion
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School budget, four board
candidates on ballot Tues. By jennifer dome Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — Borough residents will head to the polls Tuesday to vote on the 2002-03 proposed school budget and choose three of four Board of Education candidates. The proposed budget, adopted by the school board March 26, carries an 8-cent increase in the school tax rate.…
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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. MARY ALICE McGUIRE BREHENY, 99, of Old Bridge died April 7 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She was predeceased by her first husband, Owen…
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Vulnerable year for budgets
On April 16, one would have to imagine that voters throughout New Jersey will be unusually motivated to cast votes in this year’s school elections, which have traditionally been attended by very low percentages of registered voters. The reason for the expected spike in voter participation, of course, is the almost across-the-board tax rate jumps…
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Why won’t officials consider a new way of handling waste?
Why won’t officials consider a new way of handling waste? How many people in South River, Sayreville and East Brunswick enjoy a backyard picnic with the eyesore of the Edgeboro dump and, on some occasions, the irritating smell that comes from it? Will the next generation have the same annoyance? It doesn’t have to, if…
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No registered nurse means disabled program is discontinued
Enable Inc. is discontinuing a program that has been important to the people with disabilities that we serve because we have been unsuccessful in our efforts to hire a registered nurse to provide supervision as required by Medicaid. Enable is a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of services to people with disabilities in central…
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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. NICHOLAS BRESCIA, 95, of Jersey City died March 28 in the Madison Genesis Center, Jersey City. His wife, Genevieve Brescia, died in 1998. Surviving are a son,…
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Officials should take notes on recent rulings in court
Officials should take notes on recent rulings in court Recent court decisions, favoring municipalities being sued for "down-zoning" or rezoning to cut down on the number of allowable homes, should send local governing bodies back to their drawing boards to rethink their master plans. Sayreville and East Bruns-wick are among the local towns that were…
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Guest Column Richard A. Cannon Chief priority should be public safety
Guest Column Richard A. Cannon Chief priority should be public safety When Asbury Park recently canceled a motorcycle rally in the interest of public safety, its police department was in the forefront of watching out for the safety of that community. It cited the biker murder at a recent rally in Long Island, N.Y., and…
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Religious symbol missing from illustration
In regard to your Easter/Passover cartoon in the March 28 issue of the Suburban, I couldn’t help noticing the most significant symbol of Easter — the cross — was missing. It is the symbol of salvation and new life for millions of people across the entire world. Francine Napoli Old Bridge
