Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • The gracefulness of giving

    A grateful community bid farewell to Dr. James W. Parker Jr. Saturday. Family, friends, colleagues, and many of those he ministered to, alternately mourned his loss and celebrated the life of a great man who was father, friend, husband, healer, mentor and role model to so many in Red Bank and beyond. “He’s been an…

  • Thanks extended to supporters of CROP Walk

    (Open letter to the residents of the Greater Long Branch area) It was pretty brisk on the morning of Oct. 16 when some 22 volunteers and 93 walkers representing nine churches gathered on the Long Branch Promenade for the first CROP walk the Long Branch Ministerium has sponsored in several years. The members of the…

  • Councilmen make plea for Nov. 2 LOSAP question

    On Nov. 2, the borough of West Long Branch will be placing a question on the ballot requesting the residents to decide if they wish to approve a Length of Service Award Plan (LOSAP) which would provide a pension for community volunteer firefighters and first aid squad members. Under the plan, each volunteer firefighter and…

  • On behalf of the American Cancer Society, I would like to thank the residents of Monmouth and Ocean counties for their generosity and support. Approximately 6,200 walkers and hundreds of volunteers participated in this year’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event in Point Pleasant Beach, raising a record breaking $810,000 for the American Cancer Society’s…

  • Youth shouldn’t be exposed to gambling, reader says

    (Open letter to the New Jersey Legislature and parents of school-age children) In recent sessions, our legislature has passed laws that will subject persons under 21 years of age to a criminal record for drinking a single beer in public, and is currently attempting to impose driving license suspensions on any person under the age…

  • Economics, not litigation, to blame for lack of vaccine

    The letter written in your Oct. 21 edition — which blamed the shortage of flu vaccine directly on litigation — gave a much too simple and inaccurate reason for a complicated problem. Litigation is not the primary reason we now have insufficient flu vaccine. Actually, the main reason is there is little profit in flu…

  • Limiting lawsuits might not yield desired results

    Last week’s letter was right. If laws had been passed limiting lawsuits against drug companies, there would have been enough flu vaccine to go around. Since it wouldn’t be held accountable for the resulting sickness and death, the manufacturer could have distributed the contaminated vaccine and we would have had plenty. Barbara Gonos West Long…

  • Reader sees inequality in flu distribution

    My husband has juvenile diabetes. My 12-year-old son has asthma. My mother-in-law is 82 years old and has survived cancer twice. All of them have been unable to get a flu shot anywhere. Thank goodness that Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist and his staff received their flu shots. I can…

  • Obituaries

    Anthony J. “Fritz” Miele Mr. Miele, 87, of Trenton, died Oct. 24 at Arcardia Nursing Home, Hamilton. Born in Jersey City, he resided in the Keansburg and Middletown area for several years, and Eatontown prior to moving to Trenton. He was a retired social studies teacher for the Union Beach School System, where he taught…