Category: Suburban Opinion
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Sayreville Planning Board member seeks to clarify info on wellfields
I am writing to advise the public regarding information that appeared in an article about the Sayreville wellfields in the July 12 issue of the Suburban. I am a member of the Sayreville Planning Board, and when I read the article, I was shocked at the information it contained. First of all, the Monday night…
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Improve Old Bridge parking lots before charging permit fee
The Old Bridge Township Council has been asked to approve an ordinance that would impose an annual fee of $25 for residents to obtain a permit to park in the township’s commuter parking lots. The impetus behind this new fee is to recoup the cost of administering the permit program. In other words, this new…
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Sayreville officials need to address problems with vandalism
So, it finally happened — vandals have destroyed the new Borough Hall Park. It was nice while it lasted (what was it, a month?). Rumored to have cost several hundred thousand dollars to develop, it was a beautiful park and a special place for the young children of Sayreville. However, there were indications that something…
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SWMHS students keeping on their toes this summer
By takesha pettus SAYREVILLE — Two local students are dancing their way into some of the most prestigious dance programs in the country. Sayreville War Memorial High School students Heather Brown and Tiffany Joseph are spending their summer a little differently than most kids. Heather, a sophomore at the high school, recently completed a two…
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School board OKs COPS grant for September
School board OKs COPS grant for September By natalie m. vena OLD BRIDGE — At the beginning of the new school year, high school and middle school students will be greeted by police officers who will be working in the schools in accordance with a federal grant. At the July 11 Board of Education meeting,…
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Guest Column
Carl J. Asszony Korean War vets must not be forgotten As the newly appointed Middlesex County veterans services coordinator and a Korean War veteran, I am pleased that Korean War veterans are now being given the recognition they have so long deserved. In honor of the valiant men and women who served in the military…
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Lunch privileges not proper way to honor E.B. seniors
Lunch privileges not proper way to honor E.B. seniors For the last 13 years, seniors at East Brunswick High School have had the luxury of going out to lunch. Brown bags, lunch boxes and hot lunches became a distant, and maybe not very fond, memory once they finished finals their junior year. However, all that…
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Approvals should have limits to change with the times
Approvals should have limits to change with the times IIn 1986 the members of the Old Bridge Planning Board approved a general development plan submitted by the Brunetti Organization. The approval gave the green light to a development with 1,734 residential units, including single-family homes, townhomes and apartments, a golf course and commercial buildings. However,…
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Residents: Stand up and be counted in anti-MOM fight
by Randall Kirkpatrick So, let me get this straight: Because there are so many great high-paying jobs in this prosperous traffic-choked Route 1 corridor, the best thing we can do is ‘attach’ Monmouth and Ocean County residents with that prosperity? And the bright idea is to (dawn to near midnight) run multiple diesel commuter trains…
