• New school board president says tough years are ahead

    Board taps Kaufman to serve as president for next 12 months BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Longtime Monroe Township Board of Education member Lewis Kaufman has made it clear that the way the school board does business will have to change. Kaufman, who won his fourth term on the board in the April 20…

  • Monroe board comes up with $1.5 million in cuts

    Budget reductions go beyond layoffs of 22 school employees BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Few people realize just how much work a school media coordinator does, an emotionalMary Lowndes told the Monroe Township Board of Education last week. “All in all, we are more than an extra pair of hands,” she said. But her…

  • “Volleyball Game to Fight MS”

    Brian Latwis, a teacher of special education at Spotswood High School, goes for the ball during the annual “Volleyball Game to Fight MS” on April 28. The 2010 event has raised more than $6,000, with donations still coming in. That brings the total the event has raised over the years to more than $80,000. More…

  • Leona “Lodz” Mickiewicz Piskadlo

    Mrs. Piskadlo, 89, of South River, formerly of Sayreville, died May 4, 2020, in Brier Cliff Health Center, Greenville, Texas. Prior to her retirement in 1978, she was employed as a seamstress with Kozak Coat Co., South River, where she worked for 40 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Matthew J. Piskadlo. Surviving are…

  • Margaret Pignataro Deegan

    Mrs. Deegan, 86, of Monroe, formerly of East Brunswick and Shrewsbury, died May 2, 2010, in Cranbury Care Center, Monroe. Prior to her retirement in 1992, she and her late husband, the Rev. Dr. John Deegan, ministered for 23 years at the East Brunswick Assembly of God Church. Surviving are three sons, Dr. John Deegan…

  • Peter DeAngelis

    Mr. DeAngelis, 58, of Spotswood, formerly of North Brunswick, died April 30, 2010, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. He was predeceased by his mother, Ruth DeAngelis, and by his birth parents, Max and Hannelore Hein. Surviving are his wife, Kathleen Buckelew DeAngelis; two daughters, Rebecca Jackson, and her husband, Keith, of Edison…

  • Laura E. Grana

    Mrs. Grana, 74, of Old Bridge, died April 26, 2010, in Saint Peter’s University Medical Center, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was a payroll accountant with the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd Child Care Center, Old Bridge. Surviving are her husband, Alfred Grana; three daughters, Valerie Tietchen of Freehold, Janine Grana of…

  • Dariusz Pazdur

    Mr. Pazdur, 41, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died March 30, 2010, in Athens, N.Y. Surviving are his wife, Anna Kasia Pochaba- Pazdur; a daughter, Michelle Pazdur, and a son, Phillip Pazdur, both of Parlin; his parents, Stanislaw and Wanda Wozniczka Pazdur, and a sister, Beata Pazdur, all of Krakow, Poland. A Mass was…

  • Mary Zima Dudra

    Mrs. Dudra, 82, of East Brunswick, died May 6, 2010, in Madison Center, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a seamstress for many years. Surviving are her husband, Joseph Dudra; a son, John Dudra, and his wife, Gayle, of East Brunswick; and four granddaughters. A Mass was offered at St. Bartholomew’s Church,…

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