Category: Independent Opinion
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Community asked to support autism fundraisers
On Sept. 8, Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 240 will be sponsoring our second annual fundraiser to benefit the children of The Bayshore Jointure Commission, a learning center located in Aberdeen which solely teaches children from your community with autism. Last year the goal of our event was to raise enough funds to provide these children…
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Clifton showed leadership on pay-to-play reform
Iattended the Aug. 9 Monmouth County Board of Freeholders meeting where the group passed the strongest pay-to-play and wheeling ban in New Jersey. I would like to applaud the efforts of Freeholder Rob Clifton who took heat from the press for “killing reform” a few weeks before. He was being criticized, in fact, even as…
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Blame belongs on patrons, not arts center or promoter
Aloud outcry has been issued after the apparent unjust actions of the PNC Bank Arts Center to ban all drinking in the parking lots for the remainder of the concert season. Not only have minors placed their complaints but also adults, who seem to believe that the only way to have an enjoyable evening is…
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Obituaries
John Preis Nitchie Mr. Nitchie, 37, of Keyport, died Aug. 14, 2007, at home. Born in Summit, he had resided in Sarasota, Fla., and Middletown before moving to Keyport two years ago. Mr. Nitchie was an aircraft mechanic at Lakehurst Naval Air Station. He is survived by his mother and her husband, Edie and Paul…
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Time for air travelers to demand a bill of rights
GREG BEAN . Coda My stepfather has some strong opinions, but he’s a good Republican and hardly the type you’d accuse of being a rabble-rouser. Last time I saw him, though, he was ready to lead a national revolution, and his target was the United States airline industry, which he considers the most arrogant, most…
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Party’s over at arts center
The state issued an abrupt last call for alcohol in the parking lot of the PNC Bank Arts Center last week, ending a decades-long tradition of preconcert tailgating. It seems the winds of change were blowing in that direction since the first concert of the season, when about a dozen underagers were hospitalized due to…
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Marian Mury
Mrs. Mury, 74, of Naples, Fla., died Aug. 19, 2007, at her daughter’s residence in Atlantic Highlands. Born in Newark, she resided in Naples the past 13 years. She was predeceased by her husband, William in 1997; and a sister, Genevieve Toohey. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Charles Cerussi of…
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Mom goes above and beyond the call of duty
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? When our boys were little, they used to hold my hand on the way to their sporting events. My presence was not only welcome at their contests, it was crucial. They wanted me at their practices and in the bleachers during their games. No sitting in the car and…
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Michael A. Charles
Mr. Charles, 33, of Middletown, died Aug. 14, 2007, in Penn Brook Pines, Fla. He was born in Long Branch. Mr. Charles was an elevator mechanic at Kone Elevator Contractors, Miami. He was predeceased by his father, Adam Charles Jr., in 1999. He is survived by his mother, Catherine Powers Charles of Middletown; a daughter,…
