• Reading club, events will begin at library

    The Sayreville Public Library, 1050 Washington Road, will sponsor its Adult Summer Reading Program and Summer Events Series July 1-Sept. 16. Individuals who join the reading club will be eligible to win a Nook reader’s tablet and other prizes. For more information on the club, call Alaina Dowd at 732-727-0212, ext. 25, or email [email protected].…

  • ARE WE THERE YET

    Gosh, the truck used to be big enough LORI CLINCH Wewent out on a limb this past week and treated the Black Hills of South Dakota to five days of the Clinches. Yessir, there’s nothing like a bout with the Clinch clan to get a national park to rise to the occasion. The planning of…

  • This’ll make you view the neighbors in a new light

    CODA GREG BEAN Here’s the tale of my only near brush with the fame that sometimes comes to people who witness mob violence firsthand: It was a sunny June morning in 1989, and I was the editor of an alternative newspaper serving the North Shore of Boston. My mother had been visiting, and I was…

  • Offshore drilling arguments belie the truth

    Just a year after the disastrous Gulf of Mexico fire and oil spill, six of the state’s House of Representatives members have voted in favor of offshore oil drilling. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R- 11), Scott Garrett (R-5), Leonard Lance (R-7), Frank LoBiondo (R- 2), Jon Runyan (R-3) and Chris Smith (R-4) voted to rush drilling permits…

  • Calls for need to fully restore Senior Freeze

    I f anyone has not already seen it, AARP New Jersey released a video about AARP member Ruthann Wohlforth’s struggles to remain in her house with dignity in the face of rising property taxes. (Her video can be found online at youtube.com/users/AARPNewJersey.) Her ability to live independently depends on the fate of the state’s Senior…

  • Open space is not retail stores, blacktop

    This is in regard to the letter to the editor from Tom Boyd titled “Old Bridge Open Space Should Be Left Untouched” (Suburban, June 2, 2011), written in reply to a letter titled “Convenience and Location Trump the Need for Open Space” (Suburban, Dec. 9, 2010). I agree with Mr. Boyd. How can we get…

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    Graduates line up to receive their diplomas during Sayreville War Memorial High School’s June 23 commencement exercises, held on the school grounds. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Top spots at 10 Old Bridge schools set to change this fall

    Bosco: Practice allows administrators to share strengths with other schools BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer OLD BRIDGE — Many township schools will have new principals this fall after the township Board of Education approved an administration shuffle at its June 21 meeting. As part of the administrative re-organization, six current district principals will assume new…

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