Category: HUB Opinion
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What’s the evacuation plan? There is no plan
Coda Greg Bean About 20 years ago, it dawned on people in northern Massachusetts that if the Seabrook nuclear power plant near the border of that state and New Hampshire melted down, or if there were a bad hurricane or other disaster, people were pretty much S.O.L. because there was absolutely no evacuation plan. The…
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Third-graders get insight into world of disabled
Understanding Disabilities Day held at Sickles School BY ANUM AZAM Correspondent BY ANUM AZAMCorrespondent Viola L. Sickles School in Fair Haven has a long tradition of educating and sensitizing children to the impact of disabilities on the lives of people with special needs. Third-graders (clockwise from top) Kate Gagliano, Kate Eskwitt, Andrew Maris and Wade…
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RFH gets rebate for geothermal system
BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RUMSON – Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School recently reaped a substantial bonus for its energy-efficient heating and cooling system. The school was presented with a $262,000 rebate check by representatives from Jersey Central Power and Lights (JCP&L) last week for the school’s installation of a geothermal…
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Obituaries
Phyliss A. Skogsrud Young Mrs. Young, 81, of Shrewsbury, died April 9 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Kearny, she resided in Middletown, prior to moving to Shrewsbury in September. She was a homemaker. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Harold Young; a daughter, Nancy Patricia McQuade of East Stroudsburg,…
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School budgets, board seats up for vote Tues.
Voters will weigh in on spending plans Fair Haven School District Voters in the Fair Haven School District will be asked to approve a tax levy of $9.3 million at the polls on April 18. The school district’s spending plan of $10.1 million represents an increase of 6.2 percent over last year’s total budget of…
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Letters
State’s legacy of home rule is an ancient practice Exorbitant taxation in New Jersey is hurting the backbone of the state’s economy, the middle class and the employers who provide the jobs. There is evidence that New Jersey’s high taxes has lead to larger than expected migrations out of state since the beginning of this…
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Residents feel pain of school costs
We have come to the time of year when New Jersey residents will head to the voting booth to cast their ballot on the only budget on which they are asked their opinion – school budgets. Municipal governments do not place their budget before voters for approval, and the governor and state Legislature would not…
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In spring, she bares the collector’s soul
Coda Greg Bean My wife spent the weekend giving the upstairs a spring cleaning, and at the end there were many trash bags filled with mysterious stuff. “What’s in the bags?” I asked. “Nothing much,” she said. And so I didn’t even peek before she hauled those bags outside where some would go to Goodwill,…
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Tinton Falls school budget barely budges
Proposed 2006-2007 budget of $26.1M up 3. 4 percent overall BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer TINTON FALLS – Residents in the Tinton Falls School District will not see much of an impact on their school taxes this year. According to Tamar R. Sydney-Gens, business administrator/board secretary, Tinton Falls taxpayers will see…
