Trees make town liveable, viable
      New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation battling an increase in impervious surface, a decrease in our green spaces, and a decline in our community forests. Nationwide, urban areas cover 69 million acres and are increasing at a rate of 1.3 million acres per year.
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Grateful for story celebrating daughter's life
      Our family would like to thank staff writer Michael Acker for his poignant tribute to our beloved daughter, Sara, in the Oct. 4 issue of the Suburban.
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Board must disclose methods of allocating school-bus funds
      If your child uses the school bus to get to and from school, you need to know that elimination of school-bus transportation is being threatened for some of our children. Old Bridge Board of Education officials do not appear to be allocating schoolbus transportation funds equitably. As a result, s...
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Thoughts on holiday trees and teaching values, morality
      Where have values truly gone? I can remember my parents enforcing rules when I was a child and teaching us 10 children values that formed as a result of true beliefs and knowledge. Today, however, there still exist parents such as that, but morals are depleting primarily due to impressions made an...
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