Category: Independent Opinion

  • David Smith Pangborn

    Mr. Pangborn, 93, of Union Beach, died Dec. 9, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He had resided in Keyport prior to relocating to Union Beach 32 years ago. Mr. Pangborn was an accountant at Hanson Van Winkle Co., Matawan, for several years. He was also a court attendant for the Monmouth County Court System…

  • Nancy A. Rahill

    Mrs. Rahill, 67, of Middletown, died Dec. 24, 2009, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark. She was the secretary at First Baptist Church of Matawan for the past 25 years. Prior to that, she was employed at Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mrs. Rahill is survived by her husband of 39 years, John P. Rahill; a…

  • Joseph Stephan Diniz

    Mr. Diniz, 37, of Monmouth Junction, died Dec. 14, 2009, at home. Born in Red Bank, he resided in Keyport prior to moving to Monmouth Junction three years ago. He worked as a laborer with E.S.S. Co., West Berlin. He is survived by his father, Joseph Diniz of Monmouth Junction; his mother, Jean Bishop of…

  • Joyce Lochwood

    Mrs. Lochwood, 87, of Middletown, died Dec. 8, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Manchester, England, she resided in Whiting prior to relocating to Middletown. Mrs. Lochwood served in the Women’s Land Army in England during World War II. She was predeceased by her husband of 60 years, Frank Lochwood Sr., in…

  • Angela Straniero

    Mrs. Straniero, 71, of Hazlet, died Dec. 7, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was predeceased by her husband, Mario Straniero, in 1986. She is survived by two children, Nicolino Straniero of Hazlet, and Margaret Straniero of Hazlet; a brother, Salvatore Mellone of Hazlet; and a sister, Maria LaFauci of Italy. A Mass of…

  • Holmdel school board approves QSAC report

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township public school district summarized its New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJ QSAC) methods for state and county evaluation at the Dec. 16 Board of Education meeting. Holmdel’s NJ QSAC report was approved for submission to the state Department of Education (DOE) and the executive county…

  • Walter Luzler

    Mr. Luzler, 91, of Middletown, died Dec. 1, 2009, in Red Bank. He was an agent at Aetna Life Insurance Co., retiring in 1990. Prior to that, Mr. Luzler owned Waldot Music Studios, and toured the country when he was a teenager as a virtuoso accordionist with the Major Bowes Amateur Show in the 1920s.…

  • Fundraising for language lab to begin in 2010

    BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Members of the Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence (HFEE) will be holding a fundraiser to bring an all-digital language lab into the district for the 2010 academic year. The organization announced at the Dec. 16 Board of Education meeting that the commemorative plaque fundraising initiative will help raise…