Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Voice opposition to paid family leave tax

    This holiday season, it appears both employers and employees in New Jersey will find a lump of coal in their stockings, thanks to a legislative proposal with a wonderful sounding name- paid family leave. The supporters of this legislation claim it will be a cure-all for New Jersey families, providing a low-cost option for those…

  • Calling all drawings

    BY MARIE MABER Correspondent Draw. It’s one of those verbs that has several meanings. As a noun it can be just as ambiguous. If you look the word draw up in a standard dictionary, and then again in a dictionary devoted to art terms, the word might begin to haunt you. In old westerns, after…

  • Lunch Break leaders move on to new challenges

    For nearly 25 years, Lunch Break has provided “hot meals and more” to those struggling with poverty in Monmouth County. And for the past five years, Lunch Break’s board of directors has been led by Little Silver resident Kay Vilardi and Dan Petrocelli of Lincroft. These two outstanding volunteers recently completed their tenures on the…

  • A common bond runs through their lives, art

    Three accomplished Shore-area artists, brought together not only through their art but through the common bond of having their lives affected by cancer, are collaborating on “Deep Waters: Heart/Soul Triad,” an exhibit of their work that will open at the Middletown Public Library Art Gallery Dec. 29. “Being Blessed” by Starlett Belfer A portion of…

  • Coda

    Day of reckoning is on the horizon for budget GREG BEAN If you liked the lethiferousmachinations our lawmakers employed to get a state budget passed in 2006 and 2007, I have a feeling you’ll absolutely love what’s gonna happen in 2008. Those of you who have been paying attention know that in this state we’ve…

  • Red State/Blue State

    If you like the post office, you’ll love universal care DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: It’s the joyous…

  • Specifics of new school funding formula unfurled

    All districts would receive at least 2% increase in state aid; some up to 20% BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The state aid figures from Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed new school funding plan would give area school districts a significant cash increase from Trenton if the new formula passes the Legislature. Under the plan, Long…

  • The bennies are back!

    The bennies – those dreaded visitors from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark and New York that invade shore beaches each summer – are the inspiration for the latest exhibit at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts in Long Branch. “Untitled (Awesome 2 Children)” by Joshua Geldzahler “Benny’s Bungalow” is organized along the same lines as bennies…

  • School on lookout for caller of shooting threat

    City superintendent plans to re-examine cell phone rules for students BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – The city’s school district is looking into who was behind an anonymous threat last week that a gang member from Asbury Park was planning to shoot a Long Branch High School student. The Dec. 11 call to…