Category: Independent Opinion

  • For the Record

    Regarding the Sept. 7 story “Democrats choose new candidate for freeholder,” Democrat Greg Gibadlo will face Republican Anna Little, not Andrew Lucas, for the one-year term as freeholder in November. Also, the county counsel, Malcolm Carton, is prohibited under new rules from participating in political fundraising activities, but the county’s special counsels are not.

  • September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

    Throughout many towns, cities and states across our country, September has been declared Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. On Nov. 27, 2004, my then 8-year-old son Timmy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Never in my life did I personally know a child with cancer. It is a world I never knew existed. Cancer is…

  • Ordinance a weak effort to address serious health issue

    uality-of-life issues and noise ordinances seem to be two separate issues for municipalities. Many ordinances were crafted years ago when New Jersey was a very different state. Much of the noise pollution we suffer today comes from the lack of enforcement of the laws regulating equipment on trucks, passenger vehicles and motorcycles. Speed of any…

  • Signs in town should read ‘Holmdel for sale’

    In response to Kal Ganesan’s letter in the Independent (Aug. 16, “Holmdel can live without 6 more acres of open space”), I hope Holmdel voters hold Mayor Serena DiMaso and her hand-picked candidate, Don Lemma, responsible for this latest smear campaign of inaccuracies against Committeeman Larry Fink. Mr. Ganesan knows that the neighborhood businesses permitted…

  • Matawan mother extends thanks to Girl Scout leaders

    Friday, Aug. 4, was the last official gathering for the graduated seniors of Girl Scout Troop 145, Matawan. In attendance were five talented, lovely young ladies, their mothers, and two extraordinary women. What was a sad ending was also a joyful beginning as these girls move on to college. The two extraordinary women were their…

  • Holmdel, Bell Labs futures are intertwined

    So far, developer Preferred Real Estate Investments is saying many of the right things about the future of the Bell Laboratories property in Holmdel. In a second town meeting last week, representatives unveiled sketches and loose plans for the development of this nearly 500-acre site, one of the most significant, largely vacant remaining properties in…

  • Your Turn

    New commitment to conserve resources comes from a National Park Service that has lost its way Judith Stanley Coleman Guest Column Judith Stanley ColemanGuest Column The first director of our National Park Service (NPS) once wrote that our “national parks must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form.” But last year an Interior Department political appointee…

  • Coda

    In this debate, money talks, principle walks Greg Bean Wrap it in all the highfalutin language about principles you want, but when you get to the nub, for the East Brunswick Board of Education, it’s all about the money. I was saddened last week to learn that despite losing a lawsuit brought by East Brunswick…

  • Are We There Yet?

    If it seems too good to be true, then it is Lori Clinch For the past 13 years, my children have reacted to the beginning of the school year the same way – by lying prostrate on the floor and sobbing. Although a small and cruel part of me can’t help but see the humor…