Category: Independent Opinion

  • Menna’s experience good for Matawan

    Is the current Borough Council majority truly trying to cut spending or do they have another agenda? The council majority voted to remove Borough Attorney Pasquale Menna by a 5-1 vote April 2. They even went as far as to contact one respondent to ask them to match Mr. Menna’s proposal. I question the legal…

  • Barbara W. Brown

    Miss Brown, 83, of Holmdel, died March 6, 2008, at Bayshore Community Health Care, Holmdel. Arrangements were by Day Funeral Home, Keyport.

  • Student defends MRHS against letter writer’s attack

    Upon reading Mrs. Lori Ayanian’s letter, I looked up the state report card for Matawan Regional High School (MRHS) on the state Department of Education (DOE)Web site. Themost updated year listedwas for the 2006-07 school year and by comparing the graduation types, one can see that 89 percent ofMRHS students graduated by passing theHSPA. The…

  • Mat-Ab BOE must act in best interests of students

    This letter is concerning our Matawan/Aberdeen School Board Elections. Anyone who has ever attended a BOE meeting or watched it on our local station can tell you how nasty some of our elected board members can be. They seem to forget that they are there to represent the people who put them there to start…

  • Bishop, Knudsen will heed public sentiments, desires

    Sometimes it’s just a small note, a passing comment, that perks one’s ears up, straightens the spine and focuses the mind rather than that of an overt display of perceived superiority or the more dangerous air of absolute authority being cloaked in the façade of normalcy that gets one’s blood pressure percolating upwards. Maneuvers by…

  • Lawsuits to blame for rise in Middletown taxes

    I was disappointed by a recent editorial that called on Middletown Township to reappoint Carolyn Schwebel to the Middletown Human Rights Commission (MHRC). I was at the meeting where Mrs. Schwebel stunned the audience by using a racial slur to denigrate female volunteers who were not of a race or ethnicity that she approved of.…

  • Alberta R. “Birdie” C. Della Pietro

    Mrs. Della Pietro, 84, of the West Keansburg section of Hazlet, died March 28, 2008, at home. She was one of 28 children. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Frederick “Curley” Della Pietro; a son and daughter-inlaw, Frederick and Pat Della Pietro Jr.; two daughters, Grace and Sally; a sister, Margaret Smith;…

  • Coda

    This windmill tilter wants to recall Gov. Jon Corzine GREG BEAN Windmill tilters have always been among my favorite people, and I write about them every time I get the chance.   One of my favorite columns was written in 2006 about a sterling specimen of the breed named Maryann Cottrell, a Glassboro, N.J., woman…

  • William R. Neil Jr.

    Staff Sgt. Neil, 38, of Holmdel, was killed in action March 22, 2008, in Afghanistan while serving with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne). He served in the U.S. Navy, and following five years of employment onWall Street, NewYork City, he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1998. He became a Green…