Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Volunteer urges passage of proposed difibrillators legislation
As a New Jersey resident, Monmouth County health care professional and American Heart Association volunteer, I am writing to respectfully ask the support of our local media and New Jersey senators to help bring New Jersey Senate Bill S-1106 to the full Senate for a vote. If passed, this legislation could – over time –…
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Committee thanks Moss Mile supporters for efforts
What’s happening at the Moss Mile on the Long Branch boardwalk? Lots of things are happening north of the Moss Mile, with the construction at Pier Village. Fortunately, the Moss Mile still remains intact. It’s hard to believe seven years have passed since the dedication of the Moss Mile in October 1996. We of the…
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Grant will fund research on autism in New Jersey
The New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC) is pleased to have learned that Linda Brzustowicz, a Rutgers University scientist, will be working with 150 families in our state to study the genetics of families affected by autism. The $3.7 million funding from the National Institutes of Health may play…
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Obituaries
Obituaries Concetta Valentino Benante Mrs. Benante, 84, of Monmouth Beach died Nov. 9 at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in New York City and Oceanport for 40 years before moving to Monmouth Beach in 2002. She taught home economics at Henry Hudson Regional High School, Atlantic Highlands. Prior to that, she was a…
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Time should be up for Sandy Hook Partners
Ye Olde Gas Tax Revolt of 2003 As Rep. Frank Pallone said, it is time for the National Park Service to pull the plug on its attempt to lease buildings at Fort Hancock to Sandy Hook Partners. Two years after James Wassel and his group were selected, and four years after Wassel originally submitted a…
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Opening the door to pension system abuse
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of their lives, state taxpayers will regret the raise in salaries planned for the Eatontown Sewerage Authority commissioners. They’re going to regret it because the proposed raise will qualify the commissioners for the state pension system, a system Garden State politicians have unfairly…
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Group seeks support for property tax reform legislation from recently elected New Jersey state legislators
In a recent statewide survey supported by the Citizens for Property Tax Reform, the League of Women Voters (LWV) asked each candidate running for the state Legislature in November 2003 (a total of 286 candidates): "If elected, will you support legislation which implements a property tax reform convention such as contained in current bills S-478,…
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Obituaries
Chrystal E. Jinks Kopp Obituaries Chrystal E. Jinks Kopp Mrs. Kopp, 80, of Middletown died Nov. 12 at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born in Castlehill, Maine, she resided in Middletown the past 60 years. She was the owner/operator of Salon 36, East Keansburg, for 20 years. She was a past…
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Obituaries
Bertha Anna Christie Obituaries Bertha Anna Christie Mrs. Christie, 69, of the Clarksburg section of Millstone, died Nov. 15 at Capital Health System in Trenton. Born in Philadelphia, she was raised in Lindenwold and was a graduate of Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University Hospital School of Nursing. Before raising children, she spent the early part of her…
