The Amboy Guardian

Presently, much of the time of the Council Meetings are taken up by individual grandstanding. The same complaints are being made by the same people. After attending several Perth Amboy City Council Meetings, I found myself both tired and frustrated over the same redundancies from the same old waxworks – the same questions, the same […]

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At the last Historical Preservation Commission Meeting on Thursday, June 5, 2014, three gentlemen came and spoke about a proposal for a Transportation Heritage Museum or Park for Perth Amboy.

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Yes, Perth Amboy did have two meetings on the same day (May 28, 2014). The Caucus was at 4:30 p.m. and the Regular Council Meeting was at 7 p.m. This is normally not the case, but because of the holiday on the 26th, both meetings  were held on the same day. The residents who always […]

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By Katherine Massopust PERTH AMBOY – Landscaper Carlixto Rosario’s work in the planters on Smith Street and Convery Boulevard was an issue at the 5/21/14 BID Meeting. Rosario completed the work planting the flowers and wished to be paid $1,950 as stated in his contract with the BID. BID Member Virginia Lugo was not satisfied […]

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The City of South Amboy is embarking on either electing a new mayor or reelecting the existing one. June 3, 2014 is the primary. The two opponents have been placing ads, sometimes attacking each other or the previous administration.

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Whatever one’s views are on The Vietnam War, there is one thing that should never have happened. That was the treatment that the returning troops endured when they came home from this conflict.

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It’s funny how things work out. Originally, last week’s editorial was supposed to be how we felt it was inappropriate for some School Board Members to be looking at their electronic devices during their meetings. We had suspected that statements read from their computers may have been prepared by someone else. During the 5/7/14 Board […]

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Recently there was uproar at Rutgers over the fact that Condoleezza Rice was asked to be the commencement speaker. An uproar started by certain faculty groups, as I understand it. Calling her a war monger, among other things. Condoleezza Rice, who has a master’s degree in political science from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in […]

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Anyone who has attended Perth Amboy Board of Education meetings knows that Stephanie is a high school student who pulls no punches. Stephanie will give proper recognition if she feels you have done something constructive to help students reach their potential. But God help you if she feels that you are only doing something to promote your own agenda and using students as a stepping stone for that purpose.

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My late father, Rockwell Maxwell used to make a comment: “I don’t care if there is a joke at my expense as long as it makes someone smile.” I decided to devote this editorial to what makes me smile. This includes two- and four-legged animals. Whenever I visit the Massopusts, the first thing I say […]

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It is well known that on March 23, 2014, a devastating fire destroyed the James Monroe Elementary School in Edison. Unfortunately over 300 students were displaced. Middlesex County College had empty buildings that were utilized to place students to continue their studies. These classrooms were refurbished through the teamwork of teachers and others who worked […]

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The Core Curriculum Standardized Testing has been in the news lately. Some good news and some bad news. Lately there have been protests by educators and parents who feel that the Core Curriculum Program has done more harm than good. Different news sources have covered protesters of the CCCS throughout the nation. Some Superintendents and […]

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The majority of the time when I go to City Hall, it’s to cover municipal meetings and they are not always pleasant, but recently I had the pleasure of being there when Abraham Pitre was sworn in as the new Fire Chief. I was also present at the swearing in of former Fire Chief Dave Volk – and that, too, was a very joyous occasion.

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SOUTH AMBOY – In the 3/19/14 issue of the Amboy Guardian, in the “South Amboy State of the City” article, it was stated that Jerry Pizzillo was president of the South Amboy Historical Society. This is incorrect; Mary Szaro is the current president of the South Amboy Historical Society. Jerry Pizzillo, who spoke at the […]

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As most of the readers know by now, I don’t have a television and often when I go to sleep I have the radio on. When I wake up in the middle of night I may hear the middle or the end of a specific issue being discussed on the program. The last time this […]

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People are elected sometimes by a large margin and sometimes they just squeak by. The bottom line is they are accountable to all the residents in the City no matter how big or small their margin of victory. This is why I was puzzled at a recent Perth Amboy Council Meeting. A resident made a […]

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