Category: Independent Opinion

  • 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…

  • Coda

    In Trenton, the lunatics are running the asylum Greg Bean I think I can finally render a professional diagnosis: All the legislators in Trenton are clinically insane. There’s a quote variously attributed to Albert Einstein, Rudyard Kipling and Rita Mae Brown that says, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting…

  • Your Turn

    Time for Bayshore to stand up to overdevelopment John Curran Guest Column John CurranGuest Column The current owners of the historic Van Mater homestead situated on the corner of Stone Road and Poole Avenue in Hazlet Township have recently presented conceptual drawings to the Hazlet Planning Board proposing the construction of a high-density residential condominium…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She’ll get no sympathy from this little bunch Lori Clinch When the children are sick, I do my personal best to nurse them back to health. I cancel appointments, rearrange my schedule, and stand guard as I wait at their beck and call. “Get some rest,” I’ll tell them as I kiss their brow, “and…

  • Enough about John Merla

    Please, please! No more Merla! Let’s get back on track and focus on bringing our quaint little waterfront town to the original plan on making Keyport the best “little waterfront town” on the bay. Amen. Jane Zuback Keyport

  • Are We There Yet?

    The ladies close ranks on family spending Lori Clinch Years ago, as my husband approached his 30s, my mother-in-law became concerned that he might never marry. In a bit of a panic, she decided to take matters into her own hands. So, she did as any devout Catholic woman would do: she snatched up her…