Category: Independent Opinion

  • Professional journalists not ready to pack it in

    CODA GREG BEAN State Sen. Richard Codey has introduced a bill that would make New Jersey’s penalties for talking on a cell phone while driving the strictest in the nation, but here’s my question: If this thing passes, who’s gonna arrest cops for talking on their cell phones while they drive? I’m not joking about…

  • Mary Karyczak

    Mrs. Karyczak, 83, a resident of Aberdeen for 46 years, died July 4, 2010, at Bayshore Healthcare Center, Holmdel. She was a forms designer working in the fashion industry before she retired. Mrs. Karyczak was predeceased by her husband, Walter Karyczak, in 1995. She leaves behind a son, Walter Karyczak; a daughter and son-in-law, Elaine…

  • Fiscal responsibility needed on Twp. Committee

    It is disappointing to see that Holmdel’s 2010 municipal budget will increase the property tax on the average homeowner by $135. The current Holmdel Township Committee majority has once more failed the homeowners of Holmdel. This Township Committee leadership (Mayor DiMaso, Deputy Mayor Impreveduto and Committeeman Pascucci) apparently feels that residential taxpayers ought to shield…

  • Current system is not working in Middletown

    The Middletown Township Committee introduced a budget recently that results in an almost 13 percent increase in property taxes. This is outrageous, given the fact that there are many towns that have controlled their spending and see minimal increases, if any at all. One could ask how this can happen in these times. A good…

  • Where is SharkFest?

    It’s July and there’s no work of having SharkFest. Why is there no event this year? Not only does it educate the citizens of Matawan about the shark attacks of 1916, but it further serves to honor the heroes and actions of that fateful day, raise funds for a monument commemorating the event and bring…

  • Utility rates may drop, but so will home values

    Idon’t understand why the residents of Union Beach aren’t up in arms over the proposed wind turbine. Don’t they realize that their houses will be impossible to sell once that giant thing is in the background? Do they actually believe that there will be no harmful effects of it? This kind of thing should not…

  • Thomas Walter Hart

    Mr. Hart, 85, a resident of Hazlet since 1968, died June 16, 2010, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. A veteran of the U.S. Navy during World War II, he worked as an electrician for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Upon retiring from PSE&G,…

  • Dance instructor lauded for her work with kids

    Irecently attended my niece’s recital at the Middletown Arts Center. I was very impressed with the performance, choreography and the dance instructor, Deena Burnette. I believe that Burnette’s role as a dance instructor goes far beyond the job’s requirements. Not only did she teach these young girls the art of dance, but it was clear…

  • Rosa C. Rivadeneira

    Mrs. Rivadeneira, 75, of Hazlet, died June 19, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Ecuador, South America, she had resided in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Hazlet in 1998. Mrs. Rivadeneira is survived by her husband of 50 years, Carlos Rivadeneira; her children, Jaime R. Rivadeneira and his wife,…