Category: Independent Opinion
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In midst of big malls, there is Main Street, Matawan
As I drove around Matawan looking for office space, I turned down Main Street. I noticed for the fist time a beautiful street filled with stores, banks, offices, a post office, a municipal building, a firehouse, and so much more. I felt a sense of serenity, as if Smalltown, U.S.A. were back. How strange it…
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Teacher hurt in student fight at Holmdel High
BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer HOLMDEL – A fight between two 16-year-old township high school students on June 6 resulted in the hospitalization of one teacher and possible assault charges against the two boys. Jill Cerqueira, a history and social studies teacher and 20-year veteran at Holmdel High School, accidentally stepped…
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Relatives of Civil War Medal of Honor winner sought
This is an open letter to the public, seeking help and information about Thomas T. Fallon, recipient of the Medal of Honor. Upon placing flags on the graves of the veterans of Monmouth County, members of the Cpl. Philip Reynolds Detachment Marine Corps League came upon the grave of Fallon at St. Rose of Lima…
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Lori Clinch
Are We There Yet? It’s best to keep mum about most purchases A woman learns a lot as she walks the path of life. For instance, I’ve learned that it’s not wise to polish my fingernails before I style my hair. I’ve also learned that while a large glass of water adorned with a wedge…
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Greg Bean
Coda Self-service gas pumps: the horror, the horror! I got a real kick out of the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth among many of my fellow Nanny Staters when Gov. Jon Corzine recently proposed allowing us to pump our own gas as a way of reducing prices. New Jersey – which first made self-service…
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Guilty as charged
In a now infamous meeting at a Freehold restaurant, Raymond O’Grady bragged to a couple of undercover agents that he “could smell a cop from a mile away.” He must have had a cold that day. After a few days of listening to taped conversations like those, a jury returned a guilty verdict against O’Grady…
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Reader disapointed by swim club delay
Something is rotten here. First, without warning and only about a month before opening – that’s a joke I’ll address later – the announcement was made that the Hazlet pool would not open this season. At a town meeting attended by a standing-room-only crowd of unhappy people, the decision was reversed. The stipulation was that…
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‘Full service’ doesn’t mean much at N.J. gas stations
Everyone talks about the gas prices, but I have another burning question for whomever can answer: I really need to know what does “full service” mean at a New Jersey gas station? I have lived in New Jersey all my life, and when I started driving things were very different. My dad and then my…
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Obituaries
Douglas C. “Doug” Donohoe Mr. Donohoe, 70, of the New Monmouth section of Middletown, died June 3 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Cisco, Texas, he had been a resident of New Monmouth since 1962. Mr. Donohoe was a technical support person at Bell Labs, Holmdel, for more than 34 years, retiring in…
