Category: Suburban Opinion
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New principals chosen for two local schools
Staff Writer By takesha pettus New principals chosen for two local schools SAYREVILLE — Students at Sayreville War Memorial High School and Sayreville Middle School will have to contend with new principals come September. Last Wednesday, the Board of Education unanimously chose Peter Elbert as the new principal of the high school. Elbert is currently…
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Best precaution is to remove bus stops from busy borough streets
I am a parent of two Sayreville school children who do not have to cross Main Street to get to their bus stop. However, my children stand on a busy corner of Main Street to get the bus. Today, there was an auto accident that cracked a telephone pole in half just a few feet…
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Obituaries
GENEVIEVE BANACH FISCHER, 76, of Sayreville died June 15 at her home in Manahawkin. Her husband, Walter A. Fischer, died in 1992. Surviving are two sons, Thomas Fischer and Michael Fischer, both of Sayreville; and three nieces. Services were arranged by Maliszewski Memorial Home, Sayreville, with a Mass at St. Stanislaus Church, Sayreville. Interment was…
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Now is the perfect time for change in South River
The South River Police Department saw the official changing of the guard when Wesley Bomba was sworn in as the new police chief last Wednesday night. The official act brings to a close the dilemma plaguing the Borough Council’s since former Police Chief Francis X. Eib announced his retirement plans last year. At that time,…
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Supporters donated time and merchandise to SMA fund-raiser
Our family recently held our annual Memorial Day weekend yard sale for Families of SMA (Spinal Mus-cular Atrophy). Families of SMA is a support group that funds the research to find a treatment and cure for SMA, a neuromuscular disease. Our 5 1/2 year-old daughter was diagnosed with SMA when she was 2 months old.…
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OBHS class of 2000 will graduate on Tuesday
Staff Writer By natalie m. vena Arpita Parikh OLD BRIDGE – The high school’s first graduating class of the new millennium is ready to celebrate after Tuesday’s graduation ceremonies. A couple of months ago, Old Bridge High School seniors had a black cloud hanging over their graduation ceremony. Due to a scheduling conflict, the PNC…
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In defense of ‘extreme’ backyard wrestling
I am vice president of the Extreme Wrestling Federa-tion (EWF), a backyard wrestling federation based in Sayreville. We were featured in the June 1 issue of this newspaper. I feel that the article that ran, "Sayreville Youths Take Sport to the Extreme," was not only biased and one-sided but filled with misinformation as well. I…
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Obituaries
VINCENT A. GRANDE, 70, of East Brunswick died June 2 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a fire official and commissioner for East Brunswick Township for 25 years prior to his retirement in 1992. Surviving are his wife, Lois Gelinas Grande; two sons, Wayne and William, both of East Brunswick; two…
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Church grateful to postal workers for donation to local food pantry
The Social Concerns Com-mittee of St. Bernadette’s Church, Parlin section of Old Bridge, would like to take this opportunity to thank Postmaster Mike Caruso and the letter carriers of the Parlin post office on Washington Road for donating the proceeds of their recent "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive to our pantry for local distribution to…
