Category: Independent Opinion

  • Mary Loscoe Smith

    Mrs. Smith, 101, of Matawan, died March 23, 2008, at Morris Hills Center of New Jersey, Morristown. She was predeceased by her husband, Harold Smith, in 1967; five sisters, Henrietta Carroll, Geraldine Quinn, Nettie Zumbano, Matilda DeBlasio and Lillian Schotte; and two brothers, Frank and George Loscoe. She is survived by two sons and daughters…

  • Brian J. Cassidy

    Mr. Cassidy, 65, of Hazlet, died March 24, 2008, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was a typographer at the Daily News, New York City, for 25 years, and Comply Inc., Linden, for seven years. He was predeceased by a brother, Edward Cassidy. He is survived by his wife, Mary A. Faughnan Cassidy; a daughter…

  • 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.…

  • Keith J. Duckers

    Mr. Duckers, 43, ofMiddletown, diedMarch 19, 2008, at Gateway Care Center, Eatontown. He was a graduate of Middletown High School North. He was a member of the ARC of Monmouth County, Tinton Falls, and competed in the Special Olympics over several years. He is survived by three sisters and brothers-in-law, Gail and Steve Bookbinder of…

  • Nella Patti Del Prete

    Mrs. Del Prete, 88, formerly of Spotswood, died Feb. 6, 2008, in Victoria Health Care Center, Matawan. Her husband, Louis Del Prete, died in 2001. Surviving are three daughters, Mary Ann Castagnetta, and her husband, Edward, of Helmetta, Theresa Crupi, and her husband, Peter, of Cornelius, N.C., and Rosary Greenberg of Staten Island, N.Y.; four…

  • Schwebel rebuts letter by MHRC member

    Guest Column CAROLYN SCHWEBEL Arecent letter widely published over Maria Stokes’s name is very articulate but hurtful, and contains serious errors. In fact, the very “mission statement” quoted in the Stokes letter is not themission statement, but simply a description of the Middletown Human Rights Commission (MHRC) from the township Web site. The Middletown Human…

  • Coda

    Father of the groom: ‘I’m not responsible!’ GREG BEAN Idon’t mean to sound like I’m whining here, but I think I’ve led a pretty responsible life, and all that responsibility has turned me into a shadow of my former self (a larger shadow, if you’re looking at the shadow of my waistline). I don’t think…