Category: Independent Opinion

  • Students share a seaside science lesson

    COA’s Spring Student Summit draws 800 students to Hook BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer In the Gateway National Recreation Area of Sandy Hook, the beaches, marshes and trails of the historic barrier spit became the classroom for more than 800 students May 13 and 14. Middle school students get a close look at a horseshoe…

  • Beyond petunias and marigolds

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.” Doug Tallamy Now don’t get me wrong, petunias, especially the new-wave cultivars, are terrific showstoppers. The marigold was just named the Flower of the Year by the National Garden Bureau and justifiably so. A most durable, hardy plant featured in…

  • Mat-Ab school district earns positive state review

    Superintendent: District will sustain high level of achievement BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer ABERDEEN — The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District has been designated as a “high performing district” by the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) based on academic improvements and educational reform across the district. Under the state’s Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC),…

  • Students learn about surviving in today’s economy

    Founder of Matawan design firm offers firsthand experience BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer MATAWAN — A group of business students from South Brunswick High School visited a borough company last month to learn firsthand about the challenges of entrepreneurship and running a small business in today’s economic climate. About 20 students from Christine Santowasso’s marketing…

  • on campus

    Erica Dallas, daughter of Rosemary and Eric Dallas of Middletown, has earned a place on the dean’s list for the fall 2008, spring 2009 and fall 2009 semesters at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah. She is a 2008 graduate of Middletown High School South. Jessica Glickman, daughter of Sandi and Lenny Glickman of Middletown,…

  • Solving the real housing crisis

    New Jersey has not one but three affordable housing crises. There is the real crisis. There is a huge backlog of need for workforce and special-needs housing in the right locations and no plan for the future. There is the temporary crisis. The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) was led into a regulatory disaster that…

  • Speak out against off-shore drilling

    One would think that 200,000 gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico every day would change an opinion. One may also think that this environmental disaster, which has devastated wildlife including birds, oysters, shrimp and fish as well as shutting down the small businesses associated with that wildlife, would change an opinion. The…

  • Thomas F. Madden

    Mr. Madden, 79, of Hazlet, died April 8, 2010, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He lived most of his life in Brooklyn, N.Y., until moving to Hazlet in 1971. Mr. Madden was a retired truck driver for Yellow Freight Lines. He was predeceased by his brothers, David and Gerard Madden. Surviving are…

  • Millicent C. Hoppe

    Mrs. Hoppe, 98, of Matawan, died April 12, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She had been an office worker at the Bergen County Municipal Court House before her retirement. Mrs. Hoppe was predeceased by her husband, Albert Hoppe. Surviving are her children, Roberta Pfister of Colts Neck, John Albert Hoppe and his wife,…