Category: Independent Opinion

  • Association urges crackdown on tobacco marketing

    Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 people and costing the nation nearly $100 billion in health-care bills each year. About 90 percent of adult smokers begin in their teens or earlier. Every day, another 1,000 kids become regular, daily smokers, and one-third of them…

  • Mary Patricia Ward Capriotti

    Mrs. Capriotti, 73, of the Belford section of Middletown, died March 2, 2008, at Bayshore CommunityHospital,Holmdel. Shewas a budget analyst at FortMonmouth,Eatontown, retiring in 2003. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Charles; three sons and one daughter-in-law, Joseph and Joan Mary, Daniel, and John; a daughter, Sharon; three sisters,VirginiaMullusky of Lanoka Harbor,…

  • Consider running for your local school board

    On Tuesday,April 15, voters in 90 percent of the state’s school districts will select more than 1,500 men and women to serve on their local boards of education. For citizens with a sincere interest in the education of their community’s children, it’s not too late to consider school board candidacy. To appear on this year’s…

  • James G. Cavallaro

    Mr. Cavallaro, 61, ofMatawan, diedMarch 2, 2008, at Care One at Holmdel. He was a truck driver for City & Suburban Delivery Systems, NewYork, for 40 years.He is survived by hiswife, Carmella Centimole Cavallaro; a daughter, Christina Cavallaro; a son, James C. Cavallaro, all of Matawan; his stepmother, Ruth Cavallaro; his stepfather, Jerry Vashey; and…

  • Elizabeth T. Jose

    Mrs. Jose, 89, of Middletown, died Feb. 16, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles C. in 1991. She is survived by a son and daughterin law, Richard and Lori of LaSelva Beach, Calif.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Susan and Gregory Osche of Acton, Mass., and Carole and…

  • Barbara Heaney

    Mrs.Heaney, 81, of the Lincroft section ofMiddletown, died Feb. 17, 2008, at RiverviewMedical Center, Red Bank. She was a retired nurses’ aide at Kings Highway Hospital, and Bethany Nursing Home, both in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was predeceased by her husband, William J. in 1990; and two sons, Patrick andMichael. She is survived by three sons…

  • Yolanda Licosati

    Mrs. Licosati, 106, of Phoenix,Ariz., died Feb. 21, 2008. She resided in Matawan prior to relocating to Phoenix in 1948. She was a seamstress and dressmaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Cosimo in 1980; a brother, Ercolo Vecchio of Red Bank; and a sister, Norina Vecchio of Matawan. She is survived by a son…

  • James J. Janelli

    Mr. Janelli, 87, of Hazlet, died Feb. 19, 2008, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was a drywall installer formore than 30 years.He was predeceased by his wife, June R. Janelli in 1996.He is survived by two daughters and sons-inlaw, Sandra andGordon Clark ofManalapan, and Robin andBrianBaumann of theWestKeansburg section of Hazlet; two sons and…

  • Lorraine B. Richardelli

    MissRichardelli, 59, of FortCollins,Colo., and formerlyMatawan, died Feb. 19, 2008. She was a retired scientist at Colgate Palmolive Research and Development Center, Piscataway. She was predeceased by her parents, Carmela G. and Anthony J. Richardelli; and two brothers, Dennis C. Richardelli and JamesM. Richardelli. She is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, JulieAnn and C.…