• Spotswood schools super will retire in Nov.

    Krewer is credited with improving district’s curriculum BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer After 45 years as an educator, John Krewer has decided it is time to move on. Spotswood’s superintendent of schools last week gave the Board of Education a letter of resignation for the purpose of retirement, effective Nov. 1. “It has been for…

  • Senior prom

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Left: Fran Berman (center) dances with other seniors and students during Monroe Township High School’s annual senior dance April 21. In addition to dinner and dancing, guests were treated to music from the high school’s jazz ensemble. Right: Helena and Herb Burd enjoy a slow dance.

  • Monroe voters send school tab to council

    Two incumbents, one newcomer elected to board BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Monroe residents last week rejected a school budget that would have brought an average tax increase of $67. Also in the April 21 election, voters chose three of four candidates for three-year terms on the Board of Education. Incumbents John Leary and Marvin…

  • Library will take hit with proposed budget

    Hours of operation, staffing to be cut; user fees expected BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer The East Brunswick Township Council is considering a $350,000 cut to the library’s budget this year, resulting in reduced hours and staff and program cutbacks. Mayor David Stahl said an audit from 2007 showed the library had about $1 million…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Gavin Taylor, 6, gets a closer look at a Chinese lantern April 24 when students at Monroe’s Barclay Brook School explored cultures from around the world. Pupils had their “passports” stamped as they visited displays highlighting more than a dozen countries.

  • Alice Sochotsky Gustimbelli

    Mrs. Gustimbelli, 74, of South River, died April 14, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, Prior to her retirement in 1984, she was employed as an assistant cafeteria manager for Sperry Univac, Dayton section of North Brunswick, where she worked for 25 years. Surviving are her husband, Amerigo “Ray” Gustimbelli; two daughters, Donna…

  • James A. Espinoza

    Mr. Espinoza, 50, of Long Branch, died April 7, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He had resided in Middletown before relocating to Long Branch 15 years ago. Mr. Espinoza was a dockbuilder at Phoenix Marine, Sayreville, for 30 years. He is survived by his parents, Anthony Espinoza of Middletown…

  • Kenneth A. Weber

    Mr. Weber, 82, of Old Bridge, died April 17, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. His wife, Evelyn, died in 2005. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. Services were held at Michael Hegarty Funeral Home, Old Bridge. Interment was in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, East Brunswick.

  • John S. Grabowski

    Mr. Grabowski, 84, of the Madison Park section of Old Bridge, died April 23, 2009, in SummerhillNursingHome, Old Bridge. He served as a special policeman for Madison Township (now Old Bridge) 1957-59. Surviving are his wife, Filomena “Dolly” Diangelantonio Grabowski; two daughters, Joan Philips, and her husband, Steve, and Barbara Neary, and her husband, Bill,…

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