Category: Independent Opinion

  • Grants defray cost of pre-K expansion

    Hazlet preps for Early Childhood Learning Center BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET — As the 2009-10 school year winds down, the school district is closer to initiating the new Early Childhood Learning Center and the process of converting Sycamore School to become preschool ready. To help pay for the changes, the Hazlet Township School…

  • Thomas B. Larkin

    Mr. Larkin, 73, of Monroe, died March 30, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center, New Brunswick. He was an electrician at Anheuser-Busch, Newark, for 30 years, retiring in 1997. He was predeceased by two sisters, Doris and Janet West; and two brothers, Ted and William Larkin. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth…

  • James P. Gleason

    Mr. Gleason, 88, of Hazlet, died March 23, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He resided in the Cliffwood section of Aberdeen for 58 years, prior to relocating to Hazlet 19 years ago. He was an operating engineer at Local 825 Heavy Equipment Operators, South Brunswick, for 35 years, retiring in 1981. He served with…

  • Elizabeth C. Call

    Mrs. Call, 92, of Middletown, died March 21, 2009, at Meridian Nursing and Rehabilitation at Shrewsbury. She owned Call’s Bookkeeping Service, Middletown. She was predeceased by her husband, Harland G. Call. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. Arrangements were by Thompson Memorial Home, Red Bank.

  • Letter writer’s criticisms of official are baseless

    Alan Bateman’s criticisms of my participation in this year’s budget process are baseless (“Letter to the Editor,” April 2). There was only one regularly scheduled 2009 budget workshop meeting that I was unable to attend, and I was fully prepared and eager to participate in that meeting by phone, but Mayor DiMaso, Deputy Mayor Impreveduto…

  • George Hayes Purdie

    Mr. Purdie, 89, of Keyport, died March 22, 2009, at Medi Center, Neptune. He was a truck driver at Chemical Lehman, Linden, retiring in 1980. He was predeceased by his wife, Margaret Purdie; a brother, Charles; and a sister, Hazel. He is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, George and Betty Purdie Jr. of Brick,…

  • School officials take budget to taxpayers

    Hazlet administrators aim to build support BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer HAZLET — For 20 minutes at the April 7 Township Committee meeting, it wasn’t the mayor presiding over the meeting, but the superintendent of schools and district administrator who addressed the audience in town hall. SuperintendentWilliamO.George III and board Administrator Christopher Mullins asked the…

  • Robert Paul Berndt

    Mr. Berndt, 71, of East Brunswick, died March 23, 2009 at home. He was a longshoreman at Sealand, Elizabeth, for 35 years, retiring in 2000. He was predeceased by his wife, Margaret, in 2008; a brother, Adolph R. Berndt; and a sister, Pauline Harris. He is survived by a son, Robert J. Berndt, and a…

  • Fire whistles are a beautiful sound to Keyport family

    Although there has been an ongoing battle over the sound of the fire whistles in Keyport, those whistles were music to our ears when our chimney caught fire on March 14. Within what seemed like mere seconds, there were Keyport police at our door. Thanks to the quick thinking of Patrolman Ken Marr, who risked…