Category: Independent Opinion
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Adult students mark an ending … and a beginning
Brookdale’s Adult Basic Education students graduate BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Brookdale’s Adult Basic Education students graduate BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer With praise from their instructors and friends and families looking on with pride, more than 200 students marked the completion of Brookdale Community College’s Adult Basic Education (ABE) program recently. Kevin Dohorty (white…
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Frank “Mike” A. Dunn
Mr. Dunn, 74, of Middletown, died Aug. 5, 2009, following a lengthy illness. He had resided in Freehold and Marlboro prior to relocating to Middletown. Before his retirement, he was a corporate executive at ITT, New York City. During retirement, he was an auditor for the state of New Jersey and a financial consultant. He…
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Frank Pallone, what are you going to do now?
(An open letter to Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th District) As recently as 13 years ago, you were promoting development of a convention center/resort at Sandy Hook (as reported in a local newspaper). You even said you would seek a $150,000 appropriation to do a feasibility study that never happened. Well, six years later, when…
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Darlene S. Brown
Mrs. Brown, 46, of Howell, died Aug. 13, 2009, at home. She had lived in Matawan before moving to Howell 13 years ago. Mrs. Brown was a speech pathologist for the Lakewood Board of Education at the Oak Street School for the past eight years. Prior to that, she worked at McCauley School, Watchung, for…
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Middletown GOP doesn’t deserve credit for flood plan
Once again, members of the Middletown Republican Party are looking to take credit for something that they had no part in. I am speaking of a letter written by Cathy Rogers — an active member of the Middletown Republican Party — who serves as the District 36 Republican committeewoman in Port Monmouth and whose husband…
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Hazel M. Baklarz
Mrs. Baklarz, 76, of Middletown, died Aug. 1, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was a service representative for Storer/Comcast Cable and a sales representative at Line and Candia Knitter. Prior to that, she was a keypunch operator at Federal Wine and Liquor, Jersey City, and a secretary for the Monmouth County Board…
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Health care reform will preserve choice of doctors
As health care continues to be one of the most talked about issues today, I hope that consumers are not being misled by some of the myths that have been circulating. Like the myth that health care reform means a government takeover — here are the facts: Health care reform means guaranteeing all Americans a…
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Irene V. Chudzik
Mrs. Chudzik, 90, of Holmdel, died Aug. 1, 2009, at Bayshore Hospital, Holmdel. Before her retirement, she was a school crossing guard in Clifton, where she was employed 23 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Stanley A. Chudzik. She is survived by a son and daughterin law, Douglas W. & Jeanmarie Chudzik of Middletown;…
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Patricia Shepard Dolson
Mrs. Dolson, 66, of the Belford section of Middletown, died Aug. 3, 2009. She is survived by her husband, Joseph James Dolson; a brother, Thomas Shepard and his wife; two sons; and four grandchildren. A funeral liturgy was celebrated at St. Mary’s Chapel, New Monmouth section of Middletown. Interment was at Forest Green Park Cemetery,…
