Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Politics, not safety, may be on the agenda in Old Bridge

    It was with disgust that we read the remarks made by Alayne Shepler, Old Bridge Township business administrator ("Old Bridge Will Not Go Along With Weight Limit," Suburban, Nov. 8). Her attempts to defend Old Bridge’s reluctance to pass a weight limit ban on Middlesex Road are unfounded. She stated that with the weight limit…

  • Unnecessary construction projects should be stopped in Old Bridge

    I remember when the road I live on was a quiet, unassuming road off Route 516 where you had to risk death in order to make a left turn. Now, there’s a light and a major post office, newly built right down the road from the old post office. Construction seems to be a growing…

  • Residents made cancer walks successful

    On behalf of the American Cancer Society, l would like to thank the residents of Central New Jersey for their generosity and support of our annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks. Close to 2,000 walkers and more than 150 volunteers participated in this year’s local events, held at Princeton Forrestal Village and The Club…

  • Adding police in O.B. flies in the face of fiscal reason

    Adding police in O.B. flies in the face of fiscal reason The latest news coming from the Old Bridge Township Council regarding the budget is very troubling, indeed. The headline looks great — "Tax Hike Lessened; More Police Officers." But, as they say, the devil is in the details. And the details of this plan…

  • School construction plan is a sound investment

    School construction plan is a sound investment Few public questions are as easy to answer as the one facing Sayreville residents in Tuesday’s school referendum, which asks them to approve a $28 million project to convert the Samsel School into an upper elementary school. The answer from residents should be an resounding yes. Not only…

  • Guest Column John S. Wisniewski Halt classroom crunch for 15 cents a day

    Guest Column John S. Wisniewski Halt classroom crunch for 15 cents a day On Tuesday, Dec. 11, voters in the borough of Sayreville will have the opportunity to make the future brighter by voting in favor of a $28 million bond referendum to renovate and expand Samsel School. The proposal would result in the creation…

  • Guest Column Joseph Bera Project offers long-term solutions

    Guest Column Joseph Bera Project offers long-term solutions On Dec. 11 voters in the borough of Sayreville will be asked to decide the fate of a bond referendum which would expand the existing Samsel School and open it as a fourth- and fifth-grade upper elementary school. I’m not about to rehash the details of the…

  • Worried about cost of school project

    This is a letter to the concerned taxpayers of Sayreville regarding the proposed Samsel School addition. From what I have read, they want to spend $28.8 million because the children are eating lunch in the halls and library. Why not just put an addition on the middle school lunchroom? I have been a contractor and…

  • β€˜Yes’ vote on school referendum makes good fiscal sense

    The State of the Schools newsletter was mailed recently to the residents of Sayreville. As a resident of Sayreville, I found that the newsletter provided many facts and statistics — borough growth has increased; many new homes have been built; homes are in the process of being built; and more and more children attend school.…