Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Jazz concert will help fight privatizing of fort

    The first director of our National Park Service once wrote that our “national parks must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form.” But last year an Interior Department political appointee tried to rewrite the NPS management policy – de-emphasizing what he criticized as the NPS’s “anti-enjoyment” policy and promoting instead more dirt bikes, jet skies, helicopter…

  • Fort reuse should address environment

    It was good to have the opportunity to speak Wednesday night in Oceanport Town Hall before the Fort Monmouth Revitalization and Planning Authority. I had attended an “environmental summit” at the Clearwater Festival Aug. 19-20 and wanted to express some of their concerns for inclusion in the planning process and the goals that were to…

  • Obituaries

    Jean N. Borchek Mrs. Borchek, 89, of Eatontown, died Aug. 10 at Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Holmdel. Born in Jersey City, she resided in Meadowbrook, Eatontown, since 1982. She was employed in administration at The First Jersey National Bank, retiring in 1982. She was active in the Meadowbrook Association and served as its treasurer. She…

  • Protect environment, not historic buildings at Hook

    The reasoning seems to be that our national park has to be “sold” (out?) or leased to the Sandy Hook Partners in order to save the historical buildings. The problem is that part of the cost appears to be changes that threaten the ecology and character of this rare and last-of-a-kind environment for our area.…

  • Help secure passage of hit-and-run law

    I am asking the citizens of the state of New Jersey to help me get “Skinner’s and Michelle’s Law” passed through the Senate and signed into law by our governor. Almost three years ago on November 14, 2003 my father, Lawrence R. Skinner Sr. was working on the Brandriff Avenue Bridge in Millville. He was…

  • Needed: Partners for anti-tobacco program

    Did you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing nearly 440,000 deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs? More than 8.6 million people in the United States have…

  • A woman’s place is in the arts

    ‘Outside the Box Women’s Arts Festival’ runs through Sept. 21 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Performances by cellist Monica McIntyre (top left) and singer Dafna-Naphtali (above) and an artwalk of galleries displaying art by women artists will be among the events at the Women’s Arts Festival. Singers and songwriters, actors and…

  • In the Arts

    Alternative Latin band DeSoL will bring its fusion of rock/pop and Latin rock music to The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, Friday, Sept. 22 at 10 p.m. The seven-piece band mixes melodic rock hooks with fiery Latin rhythms sung in English and Spanish and is known for its vibrant and energetic live show that has…

  • Winners announced at senior citizen art show

    PHOTO COURTESY OF MONMOUTH COUNTY Dorothy Lawrence of Marlboro and Monmouth County Freeholder Robert D. Clifton stand in front of Lawrence’s painting “Evening Shadows,” which won Best in Show among 100 entrants in the 2006 Monmouth County Senior Citizen Juried Art Contest and Exhibition. MANALAPAN – Winners were announced on July 13 in the 2006…