Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Coda

    ‘Concerned Citizen’ is still busy writing letters Greg Bean I’ve been getting a lot of letters from Concerned Citizen lately, and I wish he or she would just stop writing and save themselves the postage. In the nearly three decades I’ve been in journalism, Concerned Citizen has written me dozens, maybe hundreds of letters. And…

  • Boro grapples with issue of educating military kids

    School district says agreement was for Navy dependents only BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Tinton Falls Whether or not the Tinton Falls School District is obligated to educate all children living at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, is expected to be an issue with ramifications for taxpayers in the…

  • School Days

    Geography Bee winner Mitchell Ivanicki (center) with first runner-up Rachel Wade and second runner-up Blake Maheedy. GeoBee winner zeroing in on $25K scholarship OCEAN TOWNSHIP – Mitchell Ivanicki, an eighth-grade student at Pope John XXIII Regional Catholic School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee and a chance at a $25,000 college scholarship.…

  • On Campus

    Andre J. Ayala, West Allenhurst, has been named ot the dean’s list for the fall semester at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., where he is majoring in math and accounting. A graduate of Ocean Township High School, he is the son of Joyce Cosentino and Ernie Ayala. James L. Tucker, Long Branch, has been named to…

  • Are high schools ready for a changing world?

    Reg. meeting Feb. 22 to discuss future of high schools The New Jersey High School Redesign Steering Committee, composed of the leadership of New Jersey’s education, business and higher education communities, will continue its statewide conversation on high school reform throughout New Jersey with a meeting for parents, community members, educators and the general public…

  • Developers hope we’re dense about density

    Expect to hear a lot from developers on how high-density residential and commercial development will save New Jersey from high-density residential and commercial development. How is this miracle to occur? In 25 years or more, all the open land in the state will be developed, according to dismayed, and I assume inconsolable, developers. To save…

  • One person can make a difference

    As I walked through the warehouse in early October, I wondered how the FoodBank would manage to meet the demand for holiday food requested by so many of the 270 charities served in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. It was a bleak year for many in this area and with rent and fuel costs skyrocketing, the…

  • Student seeking postcards about Garden State

    I am a fifth-grade student at Coronado Beach Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. I have adopted your state as a class project. Please send me one postcard from your state. Please do not send me anything but a postcard. We are unable to accept letters or packages due to safety precautions. I am…

  • Coda

    In Trenton, the lunatics are running the asylum Greg Bean I think I can finally render a professional diagnosis: All the legislators in Trenton are clinically insane. There’s a quote variously attributed to Albert Einstein, Rudyard Kipling and Rita Mae Brown that says, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting…