• OBHS focuses on defense, serve-and-receive game

    Knights coach aims for GMC, state finals in 2009 BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer The Old Bridge High School boys volleyball team features a revamped lineup, but Coach Andrew Hopman believes his team will contend in both the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) and the NJSIAA Central/ South Tournament. Hopman’s team includes three players who had…

  • Ready! Aim! Fire!

    East Brunswick’s Samantha Ur works the pitching circle during a home scrimmage on March 30.

  • Council, Board of Ed must pull tightly on budget reins

    Now more than ever I feel it is vitally important to send an SOS (Stop OverSpending) to elected officials on the Sayreville Board of Education and Borough Council. Budget time is here, and this should be an important priority to all taxpayers. As a regular attendee at most public meetings, I think elected officials have…

  • Politicians responsible for wildlife abuses

    E. George Strasser makes a good point about shooting in New Jersey (“Shooting Everything in the Way Will Not Solve Problems,” Letters to the Editor, Suburban, March 26). This is true, and it makes everybody sick. I just don’t understand why he had to bring Sarah Palin into it. She is a lady with a…

  • Televising meetings won’t affect democracy

    Arecent meeting of the Sayreville Borough Council featured a debate among council members and residents on the merits of televising council meetings. Uppermost in the minds of some was the propriety of expending considerable dollars in the present economy. Unlike neighboring towns such as Woodbridge and Perth Amboy, which have announced deep cuts and reductions,…

  • Sure could use a little bit of good news today

    Coda • GREG BEAN Every day, I wake up with a different song playing on an endless loop in my brain. Why my brain picks that day’s song has always been a mystery to me. On days when the song of the day is something by Ry Cooder or Bruce Springsteen, I walk with an…

  • NOTES

    Point Road Elementary School and Sickles Market, both Little Silver, are teaming up to deliver Earth Day messages using brown paper grocery bags as the canvas. Market owner Bob Sickles donated more than 400 bags for students to decorate with environmental messages. The students created beautiful works of art bearing messages illustrating their concern for…

  • Oceanport, West Long Branch weigh shared dispatch

    Data shows savings for both towns BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer OCEANPORT — At the request of borough officials, Police Chief Harold Sutton and Capt. Mauro Baldanza teamed up with West Long Branch Capt. Lawrence Mihlon to present data on the possibility of merging their dispatch services. The top police officials gave a presentation at…

  • Little League parade

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Top to bottom: Displaying their team pride, the Rookie League’s Angels walk down Hockhockson Road during the annual Tinton Falls Little League Parade on April 4. Ethan Johnson, of the Rookie League’s Athletics, has a playful shouting match with a rival team on the march to Hockhockson Park. The 12…

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