Category: Independent Opinion

  • Holmdel must accept some residential units at Lucent

    In a recent letter (“CILU opposes residential development at Lucent,” Feb. 14), Jenni Blumenthal and Bill Little outlined their opposition to any residential development on the Lucent Technologies property. Both are co presidents of a group called Citizens for Informed Land Use (CILU). This group believes that its interpretation of open space is the only…

  • Tiny post office not meeting the needs of Hazlet

    Hazlet needs a bigger post office because the Hazlet post office is too small. It has a tiny building, a tiny parking lot, and not a lot of mail trucks. Day after day the lines are out the door with people trying to ship a package, buy stamps, or mail a letter. The Hazlet post…

  • Teachers have high hopes with High/Scope

    Educational approach emphasizes hands-on learning over memorizing BY TAMMY MCKILLIP Correspondent BY TAMMY MCKILLIPCorrespondent Clockwise from top: Keyport Central School kindergarten teacher Lynn Ferber uses student-made ice sun-catchers to explain the nature of liquids and solids to her class. Kindergarteners at Keyport Central School put berries, tree branches and other items into a pan with…

  • Fight Supreme Court’s decision on Abbott Districts

    So New Jersey, are we any better since Gov. Corzine has taken office? I would have to say no. No tax reform, shut down of government services in July, and an increase to the sales tax. Yet is that bad? There must be some light at the end of the tunnel, right? Hmmm – is…

  • Reader urges passage of bomb threat legislation

    (open letter to Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr., Chairman Peter J. Barnes Jr., Vice Chairman Gordon M. Johnson and Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee members:) It has come to my attention that Assembly Bill 3130 dealing with bomb threat legislation remains pending in the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee. You may all recall…

  • Making an IMPACT on autistic students’ lives

    Middletown class teaches how to handle household chores, everyday tasks BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer Above: Ricky Santiago, 14, learns how to make a bed from special education teacher Jackie Friedman at a new classroom set up at Bayshore Middle School for children with special needs. Below: Peter Price, 13, learns…

  • Obituaries

    Concetta Elizabeth Merlin Magistro Mrs. Magistro, 88, of Victoria House, Matawan, died Feb. 10, 2007, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Richard Magistro in 1995. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Jo An Magistro and Hank…

  • Debate should be about health, not morality

    In considering whether to make a vaccine that immunizes girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) mandatory, lawmakers should decide solely on its merits for protecting the public health. Instead, the issue seems to have been partially obscured by some flimsy arguments about parents’ rights. The bill, currently pending before the Assembly, would require girls entering seventh…

  • For the Record

    Middletown Township refinanced about $2.77 million in bond debts last year, producing an unspecified savings. Among the savings expected from refinancing this year, the swim club’s debt service was reduced by about $11,000. No new debt is presently being issued by the township, according to Township Public Information Officer Cindy Herrschaft. Information regarding those facts…