Category: Independent Opinion

  • Arc honors family caregivers in November

    November is National Family Caregivers Month. This is a reminder of the many families in New Jersey and throughout the nation who are caregivers of persons with disabilities. The Arc of Monmouth wants to recognize and applaud the parents, siblings and other family members of persons with cognitive disabilities who provide care to these persons.…

  • Vote to ensure a voice in our democracy

    We are a nation that has always prided ourselves on our freedom. To ensure this freedom, we must always exercise our rights to vote, a right that is denied to many in this world. This coming Election Day, I urge everyone to vote to ensure a voice in our great democracy. Get out to vote…

  • Obituaries

    Arlene Tyner Lordi Mrs. Lordi, 77, died Oct. 28, 2006, at Bayshore Health Care, Holmdel. Born in Newark, she resided in Englishtown beforemoving to the Leonardo section of Middletown. She was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her husband, Carmen T. Lordi in 1980. She is survived by a son, Tony Lordi of Leonardo; a…

  • Communities must correct immigrant problems

    (Copy of letter to Keyport Mayor and Borough Council): An illegal immigrant comes to your borough meeting and proclaims he is illegal. He should have been arrested or turned over to the immigration authorities. If the problems in our country are not corrected – starting at grassroots communities – what will our country become? To…

  • MTEF extends thanks to Great Race supporters

    The Middletown Township Education Foundation (MTEF) would like to thank Pam Brightbill and Joan Minnuies for their outstanding work coordinating another successful “Great Race.” Every year both Pam and Joan make the Great Race run like clockwork – this is due entirely to their tireless efforts throughout the year to ensure that on the day…

  • Raritan Valley School thanks heroes for visit

    In honor of Sept. 11, at Raritan Valley Elementary School, we held Read With a Hero Day. On this day, we asked some of our local heroes to come and read with our students. Fire Official John Beslanovitz and fireman John Gurczewski took time out of their busy schedules to come to our school and…

  • Keyport better off without ordinance

    The Keyport Borough Council made the right move by shelving an ordinance that would have banned renting housing to illegal immigrants. This ordinance would have overstepped the legal bounds of a municipality when its goals could have been accomplished through local laws already on the books. The measure was first proposed by Councilman Joseph Wedick…

  • Coda

    Sometimes, good people come up with a bad idea Greg Bean If you look out your window right now, chances are you’ll see pigs flying. I figure that in a week when I end up agreeing with embattled Keyport Mayor John Merla, anything is possible. Last week, I wrote about a bad idea – an…

  • Legal immigrant supports proposals like Keyport’s

    I live in California, a state that’s devastated by illegal immigration. It costs my state $10.5 billion a year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. California citizens have begun to take their cities back from the invaders from south of our border one city at a time. For openers, we have started with the…