Category: Independent Opinion

  • Are We There Yet?

    Mom makes a mandate for thorough housecleaning Lori Clinch Much to my family’s dismay, I called a family meeting last week and made attendance mandatory. I know it sounds cruel, but a woman has to resort to tough love now and then just to keep her clan on their toes. My loved ones view family…

  • Stray cats are a hazard to public health

    I would like to commend Fred Carr on a job well done with the feline housing project that you had cleaned up (“Shelter’s disappearance upsets felines’ friends,” April 25). Please be vigilant in your attempts to maintain safe and clean public parks and a safe town. I am a professional wildlife control operator who has…

  • Preschoolers have special delivery for African peers

    Pupils raise $10K in school supplies for local charity BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Karen Bowes Sylvia Allen, Holmdel, helps students at the Home Away From Home Academy, Aberdeen, read during a presentation on Thursday. The students at the school donated $5 each to buy supplies for their sister…

  • More accountability must be shown by Matawan-Aberdeen school leadership

    While the tide may have changed on the school board leadership for the Matawan-Aberdeen School District, the numbers still do not add up for the students and taxpayers yet again. Once again the numbers of registered voters was abysmal for an election which is so important. Perhaps the possible change on the date of school…

  • Keyport resident wants emergency siren silenced

    BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KEYPORT – At least one Keyportian is wondering for whom the bell tolls. On May 1, resident Alexander Petrovich asked the Borough Council why the town still needs to sound the emergency sirens every time there’s a first aid or fire department call. “In…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Saying goodbye may be a woman’s thing Lori Clinch Much to my husband’s dismay, I am a goodbye person.I feel it is important, when leaving a gathering, to bid farewell to those that we’ve shared time with. I like to tell others to take care, acquaintances that I’ll see them soon, and the people that…

  • Welcome to slippery slope of legislated morals

    Seems the recent action by the Keyport Borough Council to ban smoking in cars with children is a measure that would, at first blush, be a “no brainer” by some. Without seeing the actual ordinance, my only hope is that the enforcement procedure has been spelled out and simplified for those that have been given…

  • Reversal of voters’ decision would be unconscionable

    It is our understanding that Holmdel’s Board of Education is petitioning the Holmdel Township Committee to reverse the residents’ recent no vote on school budget question number two, thus effectively nullifying the state school budget cap for 2007 and succeeding years. This must not happen! A fundamental principle of our democratic society is at issue…

  • Obituaries

    Joan M. Senkewicz Mrs. Senkewicz, 71, of the Belford section of Middletown, died April 23, 2007, at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born in Newark, she resided in Kearny prior to relocating to Belford in 1959. She and her husband co-owned J’s Antiques. She was also employed at JACE Company, and prior to that, was…