Category: Independent Opinion

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Robert J. Wild

    Mr. Wild, 83, of Hazlet, died Aug. 16, 2007, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Jersey City, he resided there prior to relocating to Hazlet. He was a clerk with the U.S. Postal Service, Hazlet, for 45 years, retiring n 1989. Prior to that, he was a carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, Jersey…

  • Leadership change needed to ensure guidance of Lucent tract

    It has taken Holmdel’s Township Committee 16 months since Preferred Real Estate Investments contracted the purchase of the Lucent tract to merely decide that housing should not be allowed on the Lucent tract. And it has taken 12 months since that time for the mayor to form a citizens advisory committee to provide recommendations on…

  • William “Pete” Lee Jr.

    Mr. Lee, 70, of Keyport, died Aug. 13, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was born in Matawan. Mr. Lee was employed at Local 472 of the Construction Union at Freehold Raceway, retiring in 1999. He served with the U.S. Army in 1954 in the 11th Airborne Division in Germany. He was ordained a deacon…

  • Raphael T. Celestin

    Mr. Celestin, 70, of Matawan, died Aug. 8, 2007, at home. Born in Haiti, he came to the United States in 1960 and resided in Orange, Keyport, and Middletown prior to relocating to Matawan two years ago. He was an electrical engineer and drill press operator at Electrical Products Industry Local No. 3, Irvington, for…