Category: Independent Opinion
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Officials misleading residents on affordable housing
Deputy Mayor Pam Brightbill and the majority of the Middletown Township Committee continue to mislead the residents of Middletown on affordable housing. In the last letter that Deputy Mayor Brightbill put out, she makes the case that by lowering property taxes, it would create affordable housing. Where I agree that a reduction in property taxes…
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Michael “Mickey” W. Sagan
Mr. Sagan, 65, of Farmingdale, died May 3, 2008, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. He was a plant supervisor for DiSanti Concrete Products, Howell, for more than 30 years. Mr. Sagan was predeceased by his father, Michael Sagan, in 1989. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Margaret; four sons, Blain,…
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Sylvia Lucas
Miss Lucas, 92, of the Shadow Lake section ofMiddletown, diedMay 17, 2008, at home. She resided in Red Bank before relocating to Shadow Lake Village. Before her retirement in 1983, Miss Lucas was a designer at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, and prior to that she worked in the drafting department at Bell Laboratories in NewYork City.…
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Hazlet Pool & Tennis Club is profitable
In response to a letter to the editor from a misinformed Al Solana, with regard to the Hazlet Swim & Tennis Club, I must make it clear for the record Hazlet taxpayers’ monies do not, I repeat do not subsidize the club’s operations in any shape or form. In 2006, a citizens group was formed…
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Elizabeth M. Hawkins
Mrs. Hawkins, 93, of Middletown, died May 12, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Joseph J. Hawkins, in 1991; and a son, William J. Hawkins, in 1993. She is survived by two nieces, Ann Kerrigan and her husband, Larry; and Mary Ellis; and two nephews, George Widly…
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Fink, Berk commended for efforts to protect Holmdel
In response to a recent letter claiming Larry Fink is pursuing his own personal “selfish agenda,” I wonder if perhaps the writer may have her own selfish agenda. Why are a select few Country Woods residents and Township Committee members so willing to accept the financial burden and sacrifice their quality of life to bring…
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Norman Patrick Sherman
Mr. Sherman, 43, of Matawan, died May 13, 2008, at home. He was a truck driver at City & Suburban, Edison. He was predeceased by his stepfather, David Murphy, in 2007. He is survived by three sons, Matthew, Kevin and Kenneth Sherman; three daughters, Aimee, Heather and Lori Sherman; his mother, Bernadine Murphy; three brothers,…
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Tax shortfall might explain inexplicable flood map
While searching for further detail about FEMA’s proposed new flood hazard map, I was startled to see the following remark in aMay 7 letter: “As taxpayers, we pay quite enough in federal income taxes … ” No, we don’t. After all the budget cutting, federal revenues still don’t cover expenses. Currently the shortfall is nearly…
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Josephine Ann Duffy Lotosky
Mrs. Lotosky, 74,of Hazlet, died May 14, 2008, at St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark. She is survived by her husband, Myron “Mike” Lotosky; a son, Kevin Lotosky of Howell; a daughter, Patricia A. Lotosky Sellar of Hillsborough; a sister, Maureen Ecklof of Jupiter, Fla.; and six grandchildren. AMass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St.…
