Category: HUB Opinion

  • Elizabeth A. “Betsy” Quirk

    Mrs. Quirk, 53, of Red Bank, died Nov. 25, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, following a battle with cancer. She was vice president in the corporate investment management group at the Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., New York City. She was predeceased by her parents, Edna M. and William B. Quirk. She is…

  • Reginald Pond Lyman

    Mr. Lyman, 87, of Red Bank, died Nov. 29, 2008, at home. He was employed at U.S. Army Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, Eatontown, retiring in 1977. Prior to that, he was employed at General Electric Corporation in New York, and Massachusetts. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Katharine Jane Harvey Lyman, in…

  • Petros Dimitroulakos

    Mr. Dimitroulakos, 17, of Tinton Falls, died Nov. 27, 2008, in Colts Neck, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Long Branch, he resided in Eatontown prior to relocating to Tinton Falls four years ago. He was a junior at Red Bank Catholic High School, and played for the varsity…

  • Virginia Gold Kehoe

    Mrs. Kehoe, 90, of Eatontown, died Nov. 30, 2008, at Gateway Care Center, Eatontown. She was employed at Chicopee Co., New Brunswick Storage, United Agents, and other transportation companies. She was predeceased her husband, William L. Kehoe; two grandsons, William and Robert Kehoe; four sisters; and a brother. She is survived by two daughters, Virginia…

  • We’ll be giving you credit, whether you want it or not

    Coda • GREG BEAN If you believe the evening news (which I don’t always), you’ve learned that one effect of the national economic meltdown is that it’s darned near impossible to get credit these days. We’re told that you can’t get credit to buy a car, get a mortgage or pick up a new bass…

  • Steven J. Pantini

    Mr. Pantini, 55, of Long Branch, died Nov. 30, 2008, at home following a battle with ALS. He was an engineer at General Dynamics, Shrewsbury, for several years. He is survived by his wife, Maria Corina Pantini; two daughters and one son-in-law, Jessica and Kevin Johnston of Long Branch, and Jennifer Pantini of Lakewood; a…

  • This season, blow up the TV and read a newspaper

    Coda • GREG BEAN This is going to be a strange holiday season indeed. I knew it was off to a weird start when I stopped by the neighborhood liquor store the day before Thanksgiving to buy my annual bottle of Boggs Cranberry Liqueur. I buy one bottle of the stuff every year, and I…

  • A Red/Blue imbroglio: one cheats, the other freaks

    Red State/ Blue State • DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Dear Greg: Not far up the interstate from where I live, in a little town you’ve driven through hundreds of times, gasoline was selling for $1.39 a gallon last weekend. Pretty cool, huh? When I heard that, I thought about Peggy Joseph, the woman who…

  • Frank L. Steckhahn

    Mr. Steckhahn, 90, of Spokane, Wash., and formerly Tinton Falls, died Oct. 24, 2008. He was employed at Chevron Chemical Company, Richmond, Calif., retiring in 1985. He was predeceased by his wife of 64 years, Marguerite Cecilia Collins; a son, Glenn F. Steckhahn; a sister, Edith Steckhahn; and three brothers, John, Elmer and Fred Steckhahn.…