Month: July 2011

  • Firefighter earns kudos at graduation

    Darlene Burke-Bergeron JACKSON — Graduation ceremonies were held at the Ocean County Fire and EMS Training Center, Waretown, on June 23. Firefighter Darlene “Dee” Burke- Bergeron of the Cassville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, of Jackson, along with firefighters from all over Ocean County celebrated their successful completion of Firefighter Level I certification and basic…

  • First, it’s your soda, then they’ll come for the bacon

    CODA GREG BEAN Everybody has their own idea of what the fire pit down below might look like, and what we have to look forward to if we don’t mind our p’s and q’s while we’re on this mortal plane. In my imagined Hades, only the very bad go to the worst levels, and those…

  • JCP&L is making plan for LED lighting tough to achieve

    You are a township badly strapped for cash and you find out that you can reduce the cost of street lighting from $6.81 to 88 cents per street light. Then you find out that you can get a federal grant for $450,000 to pay for the conversion. A win-win situation. Then the you-know-what hits the…

  • Libraries are a valuable resource for economic recovery

    Nine months ago, thanks to a $5.1 million federal Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant, the New Jersey State Library implemented a series of steps to enable libraries throughout New Jersey to better assist our unemployed and underemployed residents and their families. As unemployment in our state skyrocketed, going from 4.5 percent in 2007 to…

  • Councilman Kafton should make a decision and stick with it

    I am responding to an article in the July 14 Tri- Town News about the municipal budget for Jackson. So many times over the past 10 years I have vacillated over writing in about Councilman Mike Kafton’s antics. I get nauseous just thinking of all the times he has changed sides. Really, Mr. Kafton, I…

  • N.J. taxpayers are the ones being cheated

    Way to go, Gov. Christie! I have been reading the worn-out statement that the cuts in the budget are cheating the poor, most vulnerable, etc. Here is the gist of an article that recently appeared. You decide who is being cheated. A member of the administration of a child care center in Newark was bemoaning…

  • So-called ‘journalists’ advocating for Obama

    A letter in the July 7 Tri- Town News by E.J. Mitchell (“Writer Wants More InformationAbout Obama”) was spot-on and I could not agree with the writer more. The mainstream media in this country has proven unworthy of the title of journalists as regards their coverage of President Barack Obama, not only during the presidential…

  • Political Cartoon

  • Scrabble event will support Arc of Monmouth services

    BY TIMOTHY F. THOMPSON JR. Correspondent The popular word game Scrabble will feature three events in Monmouth County for players of all ages and skill levels. The Arc of Monmouth, Tinton Falls, a nonprofit organization that provides support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is inviting Scrabble players to compete in an event that…