• Joseph “Froggy” Sainato

    Mr. Sainato, 62, of South Amboy, formerly of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died Feb. 18, 2010, at home. He was a hairdresser at Vogue Hair & Nail Salon, Old Bridge. Surviving are three sisters and brothers-in-law, Marge Magnavita and Ray Hermes of South Amboy, Fran and Joe Mollis of Laurence Harbor and…

  • Gloria Surace

    Mrs. Surace, 80, of East Brunswick, died March 3, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1996, she was employed as a bookkeeper for 30 years with Midhattan Woodworking, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by a daughter, Linda Surace Twigg. Surviving are a son, Steven Surace, and his…

  • Cyril M. Chupko

    Mr. Chupko, 88, of Old Bridge, died March 2, 2010, at home. He was predeceased by his wife, Sophia Kendra Chupko; four brothers, Matthew, William, Stephen and Jack; and two sisters, Mary McGuire and Jane Hodgins. Surviving are three daughters, Janet Main of Old Bridge, Patricia Poulou, and her husband, Rick, of Jamison, Pa., and…

  • Bernice Kaznowski Miller

    Mrs. Miller, 87, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died March 4, 2010, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Samuel V. Miller, and by two daughters, Carolyn Joyce Zaleski and Patricia A. Springard. Surviving are two daughters, Phyllis Roche of Perth Amboy and Darlene Daly of Parlin;…

  • Teachers, police inspector from local family honored

    Sayreville’s Kilduffs inducted into Hall of Fame at New York college BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer The Kilduff family was the first family to be inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at Saint Thomas Aquinas College in New York. Pictured at a Yankee game are Robert Jr. (l-r), Maria, Erin and Robert. The latter…

  • Houses for Haiti

    As part of the Houses for Haiti project, Carl Sandburg Middle School students work on crafts to be sold to benefit earthquake relief efforts. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff School students work on

  • O.B. school nat’l finalist for character ed. award

    OLD BRIDGE — The Alan B. Shepard Jr. Elementary School is a national finalist in the National Schools of Character awards program, sponsored by the Character Education Partnership (CEP). Shepard is one of 18 schools and two school districts in the running for the national award. “These schools are doing remarkable things to improve school…

  • So. Amboy students get, and give, lessons on safety

    Grant-funded program has high school students working with 2nd-graders BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Eight city high school students got a lesson in safety recently. And now they are tasked with sharing it with their younger counterparts in second grade. That’s the mission of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Safety Ambassador program…

  • ‘Leader of the Pack’

    Above: Old Bridge High School’s Jasmine Plantt, as Darlene Love, sings to Nicholas Nissen in the school’s spring musical, “Leader of the Pack,” which was presented March 11-13 and featured a cast of 45 and the school orchestra. The show was under the direction of teacher Jennifer O’Reilly and student director Kevin Mondesir, music director…

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