Category: Suburban Opinion

  • O.B. getting with the program

    Officials with the Middlesex County Agriculture Development Board (CADB) have recently announced that it will recommend five area farms be accepted into the state’s farmland preservation program. Those farms include 31 acres in Monroe Township and a 26-acre horse and cattle farm in East Brunswick. If the recommendation is approved by the state, these farms…

  • Board addresses televised meetings, familiar sign

    SAYREVILLE — The Board of Education wants to know why its meetings still aren’t televised. For some time now, board meetings have been taped, but those meetings have not been televised since the person who worked at the cable access channel left late last year. In order to televise the meetings, a person has to…

  • Residents should heed warnings

    Last month 13 dead birds infected with the West Nile virus were found in Staten Island, N.Y. Considering its close proximity to Sayreville — just across the Raritan River — it comes as no surprise that the state Department of Health has now confirmed that a dead bird found in Sayreville 10 days ago was…

  • Get involved in watershed proposal Bob Shinn

    Get involved in watershed proposal Bob Shinn Earlier this month, Gov. Christine Whitman and I introduced a landmark water quality protection rule that will guide development in appropriate areas and discourage sprawl that can degrade the state’s open space and surfacewater and groundwater resources. While there are some people who would like to stop all…

  • Sayreville school board mulls sale of land near Eisenhower School

    SAYREVILLE — The district may be selling a parcel of land at the Eisenhower School. The Board of Education recently received a $250,001 bid from Williams Communi-cations, Tulsa, Okla., for a vacant parcel on the school property. The firm wants to build a fiber optic regeneration pole near the outer perimeter of the Ernston Road…

  • Local volunteers open their hearts, homes

    Many people living in Middlesex County may take for granted the summer recreational opportunities available to them. Local residents can visit parks in just about any municipality, including Kennedy Park in Sayreville, the new Raritan Bay Waterfront Park on the Sayreville/South Amboy border and Thompson Park in Monroe and Jamesburg — just to name a…

  • Sayreville to keep a closer eye on students

    SAYREVILLE — Students who ride the bus to school, beware — someone may be watching. The Board of Education approved the installation of bus observation systems in school buses throughout the district on July 18. The cameras, which will be installed by Silent Monitor of Sumas, Wash., will be put on the buses at a…

  • Increase in Old Bridge taxes unnecessary

    The proposed tax increase in Old Bridge’s municipal budget could have been avoided. The plan I have proposed is simple — sell the township-owned land in Ward 6 back to the county for the $1.3 million purchase price and sell the commercial land owned by the township on Ferry Road (estimated value, $800,000). Those two…

  • Board members respond to editorial Kevin Ciak and Curtis Clark

    Board members respond to editorial Kevin Ciak and Curtis Clark We would like to clarify several points made in the July 19 Suburban editorial regarding the Sayreville Blue Ribbon III Committee recommendation. It is unfortunate that no one from the Suburban contacted the Board of Education to obtain a clarification of these issues prior to…