Category: Independent Opinion

  • Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly

    Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…

  • Marion Holland Ortlieb

    Mrs. Ortlieb, 85, of Hazlet, died March 30, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was employed at Hazlet Township Recreation Department for 20 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Al Ortlieb; two brothers, Jack and Ed Holland; and a sister, Ann Kelly. She is survived by two sons and daughters in-law, Steve and…

  • Edmund J. Ley

    Mr. Ley, 98, of Middletown, died April 2, 2009, at home. Before his retirement, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, and began his 49-year career at AT&T, Holmdel. Following retirement in 1975, Mr. Ley performed contract work at Bell Laboratories until 1991, and he holds one patent. He is…

  • Marie F. Pinto

    Mrs. Pinto, 81, of Middletown, died April 8, 2009, at Care One at Holmdel. She was employed in the wire transfer unit at the Bank of New York, New York City. She was predeceased by her husband, Edward Pinto, in 2001; and a sister, Girolma Padron. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Edward…

  • Medicine cabinets also need a spring cleaning

    With every spring comes the inevitable urge to “spring clean.” Prevention First wants to remind you to add your medicine cabinet to your list of cleanups! Your spring cleaning potentially may save the life of a young person seeking to experiment with prescription drugs to get high. Your own health will be safeguarded as well,…

  • Mary Anne Sovany Riedel

    Mrs. Riedel, 76, of Middletown, died April 3, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband of 12 years, Charles F. Riedel, in 1960. She is survived by three daughters and two sons-in-law, Debra and Craig Coutros of Freehold, and Nanci and Greg Burton of Portsmouth, Va., and Patricia Riedel…

  • Politicians commended for bill to abolish COAH

    Iwould like to commend Assemblywoman Amy Handlin and Assemblyman Sam Thompson for co-sponsoring a bill that would, in effect, abolish the costly affordable income housing (COAH) program. Gov. Jon Corzine’s recent budget cut property tax rebates and property tax deductions for most families and municipal aid to Middletown, but did not cut unfunded mandates like…

  • Richard F. Graziano

    Mr. Graziano, 79, of Red Bank, died April 20, 2009, at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was an insurance representative at Allstate, retiring in 1997. He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Roseann Graziano; two sons and one daughter-in-law, Vince Graziano of Aberdeen, and Richard and Angela Graziano of Red Bank; a…

  • Ann Holmes Maghan

    Mrs. Maghan, 97, of Matawan, died April 5, 2009, at Madison Center, Matawan. She was employed at Farmer and Merchants Bank for more than 12 years. She was predeceased by her husband, Ross W. Maghan; and a sister, Helen McIlvaine. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Ross W. and B.J. Maghan Jr. of…