Category: Independent Opinion

  • Keyport PBA extends thanks for anniversary wishes

    The members of Keyport Policemen’s Benevolent Association would like to take this time to say thank you to each and every resident, business owners, employees and other PBA locals for your support in celebrating our 35th anniversary and the honoring of Sgt. Bob Dillon and Sgt. Steve Wheeler on their retirements. The showing was not…

  • Park’s trash removal policy not beneficial for Keyport

    Iam happy to learn that some of my neighbors raised the issue of excessive trash to the mayor and that he was in agreement and willing to do something to help. However, I would warn against taking a page from the park service’s policy at Sandy Hook, as the mayor suggested. The policy at Sandy…

  • Edith Hope Grant

    Mrs. Hope, 93, of Keansburg, died April 21, 2008, at Bayside Manor, Keansburg. She was a retired medical assistant. She was predeceased by her husband, John F. Grant. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Dr. John F. and Cheryl A. Grant of Matawan; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial…

  • 180 committed to ending violence, sexual abuse

    April is both National SexualAssault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month, when people are asked to focus on these two important issues that have such a devastating impact on communities. The facts are stark: one in every six women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime, with women between the age of 18…

  • Sandra Polizzi

    Mrs. Polizzi, of Manchester, died April 22, 2008, at Whiting Care Center. She was a selfemployed hairdresser. She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Joseph Polizzi; a daughter and son-in-law, Sabrina and Vincent Buscarnera of Middletown; a sister, Fernanda Mastini of Rome, Italy; and two grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated…

  • Finally, a matter upon which we seem to agree

    Coda GREG BEAN I get letters. Man, do I get letters. And nothing I’ve written in recent memory got as many letters in the form of e-mail messages as my recent column on Comcast and my misery over losing the History Channel when the company went all digital March 27.   Most weeks, my e-mail…

  • Guns and Bibles sure aren’t exclusive to flyover country

    Red State/Blue State DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: Every now and then, folks out here in the bucolic Flyover Country Red States get…

  • Media focus should be on vets, not celebs

    With America entering the sixth year of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our television news, which includes CBS, ABC, NBC as well as their cable affiliates, mentions the number of dead, which recently hit 4,000, but fails to report the plight of the thousands of wounded, some critically, lying in military and veterans hospitals.…

  • Mayor lauded for stand on affordable housing

    Open letter toMathewMorehead: Iwas dismayed to read the letter from the chairman of the Young Democrats criticizing Middletown Mayor Gerry Scharfenberger and Steve Lonegan for their efforts to end the costly, taxpayer subsidized affordable housing program. As a college undergraduate, I am working very hard to earn a degree that will give me the opportunity…