Category: Independent Opinion

  • Lisa M. Murphy

    Mrs. Murphy, 37, of Middletown, died Sept. 26, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was a server at Salt Creek Grill, Rumson, for several years. She was predeceased by her parents, Deborah and Alfred Keiser. Mrs. Murphy is survived by her husband, Andrew T. Murphy; two daughters, Ashley Brogan and Riley Murphy; and…

  • Capaci needs to explain his poor, personal voting record

    While Township Committee candidate Frank Capaci advertises his lifelong Holmdel association, examination of publicly available records indicates that he was not registered as a Holmdel voter for the 2007 general election, failed to vote in Holmdel’s 2008 primary election, and eventually made it to Holmdel’s polls for the 2008 general election. In fact, the 2009…

  • Brian F. Hall

    Mr. Hall, 32, of Hazlet, died Sept. 23, 2009, at Bayshore Hospital, Holmdel. He was predeceased by his father, Brian E. Hall. He is survived by his mother, Linda M. Catalano Hall of Hazlet; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Brant and Vanessa Hall of Little Egg Harbor and Nicholas Hall of Wading River, N.Y.; two…

  • Byrnes, Short working for real solutions in Middletown

    Ido not understand how the Middletown Republicans can continue to blame Sean Byrnes and Patrick Short for the township’s affordable housing obligations. The Fair Housing Act and the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) mandates were initiated when Republican Gov. Thomas Kean was in office. They are a matter of state law, not township preference. It…

  • Cornelius Johannes van Rossen

    Mr. van Rossen, 59, of Matawan, died Sept. 24, 2009, at Madison (N.J.) Health Care Center. He was predeceased by his father, Cornelius Johannes van Rossen. He is survived by his mother, Cornelia vande Velde van Rossen of Mount Arlington; a brother and sister-in-law, Mark and Marie van Rossen of Mount Arlington; and three nephews.…

  • Mayor manipulating campaign for her party’s candidate

    Mayor Serena DiMaso and her Republican majority are so desperate to silence Larry Fink and get him off the Township Committee, that four weeks before Election Day, they voted to take Larry off the Lucent subcommittee. Di- Maso reached for straws to manufacture the unlikeliest scenario for the future of the Lucent tract that might…

  • Isabella McLaughlin Levy

    Mrs. Levy, 83, of the New Monmouth section of Middletown, died Sept. 26, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. She was employed at New Jersey Bell, retiring in 1983. Mrs. Levy was a member of the Bell Telephone Pioneers. She was predeceased by three sisters, Frances Baker, Eva Gleason and…