Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Katherine E. Fort Miss Fort, 88, of the Belford section of Middletown, died Oct. 7 at CareOne, Wall Township. She was employed as a cashier for several years at F.W. Woolworth, Red Bank. She was a graduate of Leonardo High School, Middletown. She is survived by her cousins, Catherine Pfaff of West Long Branch, Margaret…

  • Coda

    This year, old-fashioned is the height of fashion Greg Bean Like many men of my acquaintance, I have a simple philosophy when it comes to fashion: Pick a look you like and stay with it forever. For me, that means my work wardrobe consists almost entirely of khaki or colored-denim trousers, oxford shirts with buttoned…

  • Cancer survivor finds catharsis in triathlon

    On the Sunday of September 17, after four months of training, a host of 1,300 women athletes and I anxiously entered the waters off Sandy Hook Bay to compete in the Danskin Triathlon for breast cancer research. Twenty years earlier at the age of 24, I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was suffering…

  • Chantey singers to perform Oct. 7

    The Northern Neck Chantey Singers, will perform Saturday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the United Methodist Church Hall in Keansburg. The public is invited to enjoy an evening of traditional work songs and history of the African American menhaden fishermen who worked off the coast of New Jersey. A little known tradition today, black…

  • Eatontown ordinance protects tenants

    For almost a quarter of a century, the borough of Eatontown has had a Rent Stabilization Contract to protect landlords and tenants of the many apartment complexes and mobile home parks with issues of tenancy. The borough’s current four-year rent stabilization contract between the municipal government and landlords was due to expire on Sept. 30.…

  • Bumbling, head-in-sand bureaucracy in Eatontown

    I am writing to express my views and those of other Eatontown residents on the bumbling, head in sand bureaucracy at work in Eatontown. It appears the mayor and council have completely lost touch with the pulse of the taxpayers. With all the emphasis on the economic concerns regarding the closing of Fort Monmouth, the…

  • Coda

    Even if we build it, they’ll still come Greg Bean As communities in central New Jersey like Freehold Borough and Lakewood struggle with the thorny problems arising from illegal immigration, about the only solace we can take is that the federal government is doing an even worse job of finding a solution than we are.…

  • Too little, much too late

    Sandy Hook Partner’s (SHP) long-awaited source of financing has finally been made known. But as all know, except for the NPS and its adherents, it is nearly seven years too late, since it was required of all offerors on Nov. 8, 1999. My Goodness! By Supt. Richard Well’s own words, “Sandy Hook officials have yet…

  • Shore Reg’l mulls options after referendum defeat

    Voters in four sending towns overwhelmingly rejected building plan BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer Shore Regional High School WEST LONG BRANCH — The Shore Regional High School District is wrestling with ways to fund renovations officials believe are needed to bring the 44-year-old school up-to-date. Now that voters in four sending…