• New super takes over in Monroe

    Hamilton discusses priorities for school district BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The new superintendent of schools has arrived, and it couldn’t be at a busier time for the Monroe Township School District. Kenneth Hamilton Kenneth Hamilton, who was appointed by the Board of Education on Dec. 4, officially started work last week, and he’s already…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff East Brunswick police officer Drew Walsh reads to children at Kiddie Academy of East Brunswick, Cranbury Road, on March 4. The special story time was in celebration of Read Across America. More photos, page 26.

  • Angela Derent Chmielewski

    Mrs. Chmielewski, 95, of Sayreville, died Feb. 23, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a salesperson at Newberry’s department store, East Brunswick, where she worked for 15 years. Her husband, Adam J. Chmielewski, died in 1996; a son, Edward Chmielewski, died in 1999;…

  • Loretta M. Halaszewicz Rodziewicz

    Mrs. Rodziewicz, 93, of Sayreville, died Feb. 24, 2009, in Golden Living Care Center, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a counter person with Sun Glo Bakery, Sayreville, where she worked for 15 years. Her husband, John Rodziewicz, died in 1970, and a daughter, Janet Rodziewicz, died in 1953. Surviving are…

  • Barbara Z. Zach

    Mrs. Zach, 88, of Sayreville, died March 2, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she was employed at E.I. DuPont Photo Products, Parlin section of Sayreville. She was predeceased by her husband, Willard B. Zach. Surviving are two daughters and their husbands, Lynn and Harry Romeo of Old…

  • Elmer Hans Jensen

    Mr. Jensen, 84, of Sayreville, died Feb. 23, 2009, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Prior to his retirement in 2006, he was the owner/operator of Jensen’s Seafood, South River, where he worked from the age of 12 with his father and his family. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Policastro Jensen; a daughter, Susan Walsh, and…

  • Gordon E. Leiser

    Mr. Leiser, 73, of Spotswood, died March 4, 2009, at home. A roadway foreman for 17 years with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, East Brunswick, he also was a former director of the Spotswood Office of Emergency Management, where he served since the late 1970s. Surviving are his wife, June McGrath Leiser; a son, Joseph…

  • George M. Kaczmarek

    Mr. Kaczmarek, 57, of Sayreville, died Feb. 24, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was employed at E.I. DuPont, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he was employed for 22 years. After that, he worked as a parts delivery man for Open Road Honda and BMW, Edison. He was predeceased by his…

  • Henry S. Rand

    Mr. Rand, 91, of Monroe, died Feb. 25, 2009, at home. His wife, Ethel Rand, died in 2002. He was the official photographer for Monroe for many years. Surviving are a daughter, Judith Rand Dichter, and her husband, Barry, of Larchmont, N.Y.; a son, Michael Rand, and his wife, Anne, of Columbia, Md.; a sister,…

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