Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Some Sayreville students face redistricting Some Winding Woods and La Mer students will attend different schools

    By takesha Pettus Some Sayreville students face redistricting Some Winding Woods and La Mer students will attend different schools MARIE ORTIZ Construction continues on the addition at the Emma Arleth Elementary School, Sayreville. SAYREVILLE — This fall some students who live in the Winding Woods apartments will be moved to other district elementary schools. About…

  • Group presses forward with ideas to end tolls Guest Column John Millett

    Group presses forward with ideas to end tolls Guest Column John Millett In response to the Suburban editorial of Aug. 16, approximately one year ago when Citizens Against Tolls (CAT) was formed, our group’s initial proposal was to fund the operation costs of the Garden State Parkway with a 3-cent (per gallon) tax on gasoline.…

  • E.B. resident supports toll elimination

    I found Nicole Vaccaro’s article entitled "Toll elimination may not work in New Jersey" (Sentinel Aug. 2) to be interesting and informative. However, I disagree with Melverne Cooke’s justification for having tolls. Tolls are a road tax and as such they represent double taxation since gasoline taxes already cover road maintenance. At best, they are…

  • Editorial misses the mark on Garden State Parkway tolls

    It was appalling to read your Opinion column in the Aug. 16 edition whereby you, in effect, support a "use" tax (re: Garden State Parkway tolls). By extension, then, you must also support a use tax for each time you use the public library, or call the fire or police department, or for public schools.…

  • Cemetery desecration was act of cowardice, stupidity

    Recently nine gravestones in Old Bridge were desecrated with an anti-Semitic symbol in green and red paint. Also, a small American flag set next to a gravesite was removed and placed upside down. These illegal actions are condemned by the Old Bridge Township Human Relations Commission. If the actions of these individuals are based on…

  • Speeding cars should slow down on residential street

    I am writing this letter to address a very serious concern for me and for my family. I live on Washington Avenue in the Central Park development in Old Bridge. We have lived here for two years now, and the cars that race down this block all day and night have become a real concern.…

  • Hope South River council acts in good faith, next year

    Hope South River council acts in good faith, next year Not long after local residents turned their calendar to the year 2000, the South River Rescue Squad approached the Borough Council about becoming a borough department. The benefits for the all-volunteer squad, among others, included $25,000 from the governing body this year. However, in order…

  • Resident questions fairness of redistricting in Sayreville

    I keep reading about the overcrowding of our schools in Sayreville. I am a homeowner in the LaMer community. I also have three children — one in high school, one in middle school and one in elementary school. I would like to know what gives anyone the right to tell my child or any child…

  • County educated public about West Nile virus Guest Column

    County educated public about West Nile virus Guest Column Bernard G. Mihalko   This letter is in response to the letter that was published in the Suburban on Aug. 14 by Edward Trzaska titled, "County Officials Must Act on West Nile Virus." The Middlesex County Public Health Department, on behalf of the Middlesex County Board…