Category: Independent Opinion

  • Frances V. Sloan

    Mrs. Sloan, 90, of Middletown, died April 24, 2009, at Care One at King James, Atlantic Highlands. She was employed at New York Central Railroad during the 1940s. Prior to that, she was employed at First National Bank, and the Yonkers Savings Bank, both Yonkers, N.Y. She was predeceased by her first husband, Francis Burton;…

  • Elizabeth M. Ballard

    Mrs. Ballard, 93, of the Belford section of Middletown, died April 26, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She resided in the Navesink section of Middletown, prior to relocating to Belford. She was employed at E.I. DuPont for 40 years, retiring when she was age 70. She was one of the original Rosie the…

  • Never mind the details, let’s have a tax revolt!

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Politicians often put forward ideas without telling those of us who might be willing to listen to them how to go about implementing their grand schemes. A case in point is Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who was quoted by the Bloomberg News Service last week as saying, “There should…

  • Lawmakers finally show a bit of common sense

    Coda • GREG BEAN My father died a hard death from lung cancer in 1983. From the first diagnosis, about six months before he passed, there was never any real hope, since his type of cancer is nearly always fatal. Still, he tried to beat it with ever-more aggressive chemotherapy treatments that took his hair…

  • Jawann Charles Brown

    Mr. Brown, 21, of the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen, died May 9, 2009, at Hackensack University Medical Center. He was a 2005 graduate of Matawan-Aberdeen Regional High School, Aberdeen. He is survived by his parents Lisa and Charles Brown; a sister Shardea Brown; his maternal grandparents, Marie and Leonard Wright; his paternal grandmother, Jean Brown;…

  • Dorothy Jean Kimball

    Mrs. Kimball, 84, of Tinton Falls, died May 8, 2009, at home. She was predeceased by a son, G. Brian Kimball of London, England, in 1994; and a brother, Harry Alton Schachter Jr., in 2008. She is survived by a daughter, Heather Kimball Colella of the Lincroft section of Middletown; a son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan…

  • Margaret E. Winters

    Mrs. Winters, 59, of Leesburg, Va., died April 21, 2009, in Leesburg. She resided in Middletown, prior to relocating to Virginia in 1992. She was a sales associate at Hechts Department Store, Fairfax, Va. She was predeceased by two brothers, Fred and Albert Ackerly. She is survived by her husband, Harry Winters Sr. of Leesburg,…

  • Brother Christopher Foley, F.S.C.

    Brother Foley, Fratres Scholarum Christianorum, 88, of the Lincroft section of Middletown, died April 27, 2009, at De La Salle Hall at Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft. He received the Holy Habit of the Christian Brothers in 1939. His assignments included St. Jerome’s School, New York City; St. Joseph’s School, Detroit, Mich.; and St. Raymond’s School,…

  • District opts for contract drivers

    Contracts not renewed in cost-cutting move BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Without the renewal of six school bus drivers’ contracts, the district will use drivers from contractors that provide transportation services for nonpublic school students. “As a result of these economic times, we could no longer afford to provide drivers internally, and…