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Mourners celebrate life of Monsignor Alliegro
Popular priest’s death follows long battle with cancer BY ENID WEISS Correspondent More than 1,000 people, including more than 100 members of the clergy, crowded into the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in Metuchen for the funeral of Monsignor Michael J. Alliegro on Friday, Aug. 21. He died Aug. 17 at Saint Peter’s University…
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Resident angry about pay increases
Taxpayers in Edison should be angry about the reported pay increases for top members of the school administration. School taxes account for over half of the property taxes. The largest portion the school budget is for salaries and benefits. It appears that the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) underlies the reported pay increases. The NJEA…
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Reader commends people for difference
Like many of you, I recently read about the discovery of [steel drums] at 990 Inman Ave. across from a day care center in Edison. The fact that such blatant contamination is still happening in this day and age is just plain scary. One thing that you may not have heard was the fact that…
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Sports Shorts
The Edison Recreation Department is offering open volleyball for all sixththrough 12th-graders registered at the community center, beginning Sept. 17. The program will be held every Thursday 6:30-9 p.m. for instruction and open play at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, 450 Division St., Edison. This co-ed program has a $10 yearly teen community center fee, which…
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Republicans don’t take Dittman seriously
I’m writing in response to Gloria Dittman’s letter last week about Dennis Pipala being manipulated into running for mayor on the Republican ticket. She either has a very short memory, or a lot of nerve! Gloria must have forgotten that she was a Republican, switched to Democrat in 2001, switched back to Republican and ran…
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Metuchen girls ready to hit the court
Bulldogs tennis team coming off solid 2008 campaign BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer After finishing last season 10-8, the expectations are high for another winning season when the Metuchen High School girls tennis teams takes to the court on Sept. 8 to square off against Sayreville War Memorial High School. “Sayreville is going to be…
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Keeping an eye on the ball
ERIC SUCAR staff Metuchen High School senior Anthony Terenzi runs through a receiving drill during a morning football practice held at the high school on Aug. 21.
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If it isn’t one thing, it’s a dozen others
Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH I’ve decided that the time before school starts is as hectic as the week before Christmas. The hustle and the bustle leave little time for making merry — much less a cup of cheer. There’s the cleaning of the closets, the searching for the backpacks and the ever-exhausting…
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Anonymous defamers should be very afraid
Coda • GREG BEAN I’ve mentioned more than once over the last few years that there’s a day of reckoning coming for the cowardly slime-puppies who post anonymous libels on some of the blog sites around here (Are you listening, da Truth Squad?). And it looks like that day might be coming sooner than the…
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