Category: Independent Opinion

  • John J. Oswald

    Mr. Oswald, 68, of Belford, died Aug. 16, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was the founder and president of Oswald Enterprises Inc. and a member of the Community Advisory Board at Riverview Medical Center. Mr. Oswald was one of the founding members of the New Jersey chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation.…

  • Resident: Mid’twn not such a great place to live

    Ifelt I had to reply to Ms. Steph Murray’s comments pertaining to Middletown being such an exquisite town to live in (“Mid’twn Resident Credits Mayors With Town’s Success,” Aug. 12). Her reference to Money magazine says it all; only those with money can live in Middletown, i.e., taxes, taxes, taxes. I see the waste in…

  • Jay T. Cohen

    Mr. Cohen, 81, a resident of Matawan for 47 years, died Aug. 19, 2010, at CareOne at Holmdel. He was a schoolteacher with the New York City Board of Education before his retirement. Mr. Cohen was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He was predeceased by a daughter, Bonnie Norton, in 1993; and…

  • DiMaso, GOP are taking responsible steps

    As a homeowner and taxpayer in Holmdel, I appreciate the very responsible steps that our township committee majority (Mayor Serena DiMaso, Deputy Mayor Pat Impreveduto and Committeeman Rocco Pascucci) has taken to ensure that our municipal budget is kept at a prudent level, especially in light of continuing decreased aid from the state, while maintaining…

  • Marjorie de Carvalho

    Mrs. Carvalho, 89, of Keystone Heights, Fla., and formerly of Fair Haven, died Aug. 13, 2010, at home. She was an executive secretary and began her career at the Casa de Portugal in New York City. Mrs. de Carvalho was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Rumson, where she sang in the choir for…

  • Middletown resident wants change

    Democratic candidates for Middletown Township Committee, in your search for votes, do not let prejudice or misunderstanding be your guide. The PBA, the teachers’ union, as well as the blue-collar town workers, the commercial fishermen, as well as any other organization, represent blocks of votes you will need indeed. Try to understand their position. Help…

  • Natolia “Tolie” Moreau Brown

    Mrs. Brown, 88, a longtime Monmouth County resident and retired editor of The Freehold Transcript, died Aug. 15, 2010, at Atria Stratford, Stratford, Conn. She was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mrs. Brown began her career at The Transcript, the county seat weekly newspaper founded in 1888 by her…

  • Judith Stanley Coleman was county’s ‘guardian angel’

    Ifirst met Judith Stanley Coleman in the early 1980s when many Monmouth County residents were fighting to save 400 acres on the Holmdel banks of the Swimming River Reservoir from being developed as 410 housing units, a golf course and a sewage treatment plant that was planned to discharge effluent to ground and surface waters…