Category: Independent Opinion
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Icon of environmental movement is remembered
Environmentalists everywhere were saddened to hear that Derrickson W. (Dery) Bennett died last December. He was 79. An icon in the environmental movement, he became the first director of the American Littoral Society in 1968 and retired in 2003. Still, he came to the Littoral Society office at Sandy Hook every day in his beat-up…
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Health care reform fails to treat citizens equally
Our Declaration of Independence states in its second paragraph “ … that all men are created equal ….” Our Constitution, which is only about 12 pages long, is short because it only contained a few broad exceptions to equal treatment of its citizens. And those exceptions were corrected by amendments to the Constitution, the first…
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Wrong time and place for sports complex
Middletown’s Township Committee continually ignores the historical facts and the will of the people: • Years ago, the residents defeated a Monmouth County Freeholders’ proposal to put a sports complex on the Sunnyside Farm acreage on Middletown Lincroft Road. Today it is the equestrian complex. • Just a few years ago, the proposal by Middletown…
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Spring Visiting Writers Series begins Feb. 23
Brookdale Community College’s Visiting Writers Series – Spring 2010 will welcome Mihaela Moscaliuc and Dean Young at the Feb. 23 debut event. Readings will begin at 7 p.m. in the Warner Student Life Center in Navesink rooms I and II on the Lincroft main campus, 765 Newman Springs Road. Moscaliuc’s first poetry collection followed her…
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On Campus
Rider University, Lawrenceville, has placed the following local residents on its dean’s list for the fall semester: from Aberdeen, Michael Ash; from Hazlet, Chelsea Callan and Joseph Petrizzo; from Holmdel, Nicole Pepitone, Michael Lo Verde, Matthew Deliberti and Stephanie Tolas; from Keyport, Stephen Reisig, Terry Cantalupo, Eric Heller and Sean Donohue; from Matawan, Laura Cahill,…
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After storm column, some readers ask, ‘Where funny?’
Coda • GREG BEAN I’ll say this for myself: when I make a mistake, it’s a doozy. Regular readers will remember that last week, I spent a lot of time making fun of the hysterical media build-up to the storm they were calling the “Snowpocalypse,” which turned out to be kind of a dud, at…
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Catherine F. (Terry) Podracky
Ms. Podracky, 62, a lifelong resident of Hazlet, died Feb. 14, 2010, in Atlantic City. For 34 years she was a claims representative with the Social Security office in Iselin. Surviving are her mother, Frances West Terry of Old Bridge; two daughters, Laura Sininsky and her husband, Derek, and Michelle Nascimento and her husband, Jack,…
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Charles F. Patterson
Mr. Patterson, 88, a lifelong resident of Keyport, died Feb. 12, 2010, at Bayshore Community Hospital. He was the owner of Patterson’s Ice Cream Stand and Liquor Store, Keyport, as well as many other businesses. Mr. Patterson was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a former member of the Keyport Fire Company.…
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Gov. urged to reject proposed LNG facility
The Jersey Shore is under attack by LNG (liquefied natural gas). The Atlantic Sea Island Group wants to build an LNG facility on a 63-acre, manmade island (about the size of 12 football fields) off the coast of Sea Bright. This, however, is only one of three LNG facilities planned for the Jersey Shore. Another…
