Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Betty Loomis Smith Mrs. Smith, 79, of Monmouth Beach, died Jan. 4 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she resided in Larchmont and Staten Island, N.Y., and Rumson, prior to moving to Monmouth Beach. She was a retired local travel agent, and also taught ESL and Spanish at Staten Island…

  • Obituaries

    Robert P. “Bob” Wolf Sr. Mr. Wolf, 54, of Oceanport, died Jan. 8 at home. Born in Long Branch, he resided in Eatontown 20 years, prior to moving to Oceanport 12 years ago. He was an auto body mechanic at Royal Collision, Freehold. Prior to that, he owned A & B Auto Body, Eatontown, for…

  • Small acts of kindness can make a difference

    Coda Greg Bean There was a moving letter to the editor in last week’s edition of one of our newspapers, the Suburban, from a woman named Rosemary Mulvanerton, who wanted to thank the staff of a local Wendy’s restaurant for making her husband a cheeseburger. It seems Ms. Mulvanerton’s husband had been in the hospital…

  • Letters

    Ideas for N.J.’s new CEO The new year brings a new chief to New Jersey, as Gov.-elect Jon Corzine takes office. His impressive environmental record in the Senate and his proposed environmental agenda bode well for New Jersey’s continued environmental progress. Gov.-elect Corzine has gone on record with an ambitious agenda to control overdevelopment and…

  • A somber toast for the coming year

    Coda Greg Bean When the United States entered World War II in 1941, my maternal grandfather — who was born in a homesteader’s sod hut in 1907 — was 34 years old. He had grown up a cowboy, ridden rodeo as a young man and taught in a one-room schoolhouse before he married my grandmother,…

  • Letters

    Circle of life connects people & animals In the Broadway musical “Lion King,” actors assume animal personas to remind us that all living things are part of the “Circle of Life.” What a wonderful message to reflect upon following a troubled and turbulent year of natural and human-made disasters. We are inextricably connected to each…

  • Liberties are being tossed aside for political agendas

    Your Turn The Rev. Kevin Brown Guest Column The Rev. Kevin Brown Guest Column I wanted to take a minute to reach out to all of you who for the last few months to a year have been struggling with the politics of eminent domain and other liberty issues throughout our blessed country. For me,…

  • Obituaries

    William “Bill” J. Foderaro Mr. Foderaro, 90, of Manchester, died Dec. 13 following a battle with a lengthy illness. Born and raised in Long Branch, he resided in El Paso, Texas, in 1950 and relocated to Manchester six years ago. He was retired from management in wholesale foods, most recently at Valley Foods, El Paso.…

  • Don’t believe it, son. He’s making it all up

    Coda Greg Bean Over the years, I’ve made every member of my family and many of my friends cringe when I wrote about them in a column. For a long time, whenever I wrote about something one of them might consider embarrassing, I’d take the column home and read it to them before it went…