• Front-page coverage spreads awareness

    In regard to your cover piece on a Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) candlelighting ceremony in remembrance of victims of drug and alcohol abuse during the celebrated Red Ribbon Week (Suburban, Nov. 4), I am glad to see that an organization of such matter is being represented on the front page of a newspaper. With…

  • Transfer of OBMUA funds creates unfair tax

    Afew months ago, the Old Bridge Municipal Utilities Authority (OBMUA) approved rate changes for its water division. Included was a 20 percent reduction in the basic water allotment from 10,000 to 8,000 gallons per quarter, with the same fee as existed for the prior 10,000- gallon allotment. For the customer who uses 10,000 gallons, this…

  • Duck and cover, because Sarah’s locked and loaded

    CODA GREG BEAN Although some of my critics won’t believe it, there is no political agenda at work when I make this bold statement: As a hunter, Sarah Palin is a greater menace in the field than Dick Cheney. And I have a feeling that real hunters among my readership will back me up on…

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    Charles Vuocolo, American Legion Post 211 chaplain, addresses the audience gathered at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Ceremony held at Sayreville Borough Hall on Dec. 7. The ceremony was conducted by Post 211. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Lighthouse tours prompt cross-curriculum unit

    Samsel teachers use lighthouses as basis for lessons in math, science, history, art and more BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Fourth-grade students from the Samsel Upper Elementary School in Sayreville are guided by Bob Gleason and Bill Volpe from the New Jersey Lighthouse Speakers Bureau. SAYREVILLE — The education of 108 fourth-graders at Samsel Upper…

  • Bidding goodbye

    Council members Siarkiewicz and Kaiserman thank borough’s workers and residents BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — At the last Borough Council meeting of 2010, the council said goodbye to council President Paula Siarkiewicz and Councilman David Kaiserman. “We’ll be saying goodbye to friends to make room to welcome the new people,” Mayor Kennedy O’Brien…

  • DuPont donation will support camp for Sayreville brain-injured children

    SAYREVILLE — DuPont is donating $10,000 to the Sayreville Association for Brain Injured Children (SABIC) to support the development of a new picnic pavilion at the site of the association’s future summer camp on Cheesequake Road in Parlin. DuPont has been in operation in Parlin since 1904. Ten new picnic tables, compliant with the Americans…

  • Riverfront development awaiting traffic report

    BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer SAYREVILLE — There are only a few things left for O’Neill Properties to complete before the development of the former National Lead Property can begin. After a marathon meeting in which the concept plan, map and phasing plan were accepted with conditions, O’Neill just needs to fulfill the conditions before…

  • WWII vet’s passion: Helping those in need

    Sayreville resident happy to lend a hand, and some turkeys BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Daniel Passafiume SAYREVILLE — It all started, in a way, with a bad cup of coffee. After finding that the coffee at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Lyons wasn’t too good, World War II veteran Daniel Passafiume of Sayreville decided…

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