• Investigate facts about health care

    Fixing our broken health care system is far too important to be derailed by myths and scare tactics perpetuated by special interest groups trying to block progress on health care reform. You may have heard the outrageous claim that health care reform will get rid of Medicare. In fact, for people in Medicare, health care…

  • Do you think health care reform is likely?

    Editor’s note: The following response was inadvertently omitted from last week’s Word on the Street column. No, I don’t think health care reform is going to be passed. To me health care is good as it is; it should not be changed. I think there are a few minor changes that need to be done…

  • Sport Shorts

    The Sayreville U12 Girls softball defeated Fords, 8-2, to capture the U12 Championship of the Sayreville Athletic Association Tournament. Sayreville defeated South Amboy to advance to the championship game as the tournament’s no. 2 seed vs. the no. 1 seed, Fords, which was previously unbeaten. Sayreville trailed 2-0 entering the fifth inning, when they scored…

  • Sayreville U12 team takes top honors in tournament

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent T he Sayreville AA U12 girls softball allstar team ended its season on a high note by winning the championship of the tournament it hosted. Coach Mike Povelaitis’ team played well in all five of its games. Solid pitching and an infield defense that contributed 42 assists propelled the Sayreville squad…

  • O’Sullivan a ‘diamond in the rough’ at EBHS

    Linebacker/tight end looks for winning season BY JIMMY ALLINDER Staff Writer When you meet Tim O’Sullivan, you are immediately impressed by his soft-spoken, almost gentle demeanor. When he answers a question, he does so with measured, well-thought-out words. JEFF GRANIT staff Tim O’Sullivan, co-captain of the East Brunswick High School football team, plays inside linebacker…

  • You can use a chainsaw to correct rude behavior

    Coda • GREG BEAN We live in a state where we are regularly witness to, or victims of, rude behavior. And most of us not only tolerate it, we enable it. You know the kind of situation I’m talking about. You’re at the boarding counter at the airport when you’re told your flight to Cleveland…

  • Word on the Street

    What do you think is the greatest unsolved mystery of all? The greatest unsolved mystery is what genius came up with shrink-wrap and why did he or she think that this was the way to seal packages? The greatest “unsolved” mystery of all is the Isness we call God. The Rev. Diane Cuesta Brick Have…

  • August: Damage control

    “If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.” — St. John Chrysostom Summertime, when sparrows gorge themselves on mulberries, goldfinches flit through branches and sway on tall grasses, that’s when your garden is the best place to be — a rewarding retreat, where…

  • Clearwater Festival

    PHOTOS BY GLORIA STRAVELLI Above: The Hudson River Sloop Singers have been singing together for more than three decades and reunite annually to perform at the 34th Annual Clearwater Festival Saturday, Aug. 15. Right: A young girl gets an up-close look at nature as a butterfly alights on her hand in the Butterfly Release Tent…

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