Category: Independent Opinion

  • Lori Clinch

    Are We There Yet? Wrong number spoils the whole darn joke My friend, Beth, is quite a kidder. She’s quick with jokes, spins a good yarn and is the first person you’d suspect if you awoke on a Saturday to find a harvest gold toilet smack dab in the middle of your front lawn. It…

  • Obituaries

    Anthony V. “Bud” Rumolo Mr. Rumolo, 84, of Rumson, died May 12 at home. Born in Staten Island, N.Y., he resided in West Brighton, Staten Island, prior to moving to Rumson in 1962. He was a pension consultant at Actuarial Ideas, Rumson. Prior to that, he was a vice president at Manhattan Life Insurance Company,…

  • Swim club must be more self-sufficient

    The Hazlet Township Committee did the right thing by giving the township’s Swim and Tennis Club another chance to open this summer, although the situation could have been handled better. Faced with a string of operational deficits since 2000, the committee announced in late April that the facility, a community staple since the 1970s, would…

  • Middletown to become next Long Branch with eminent domain abuse

    Pat Walsh Guest Column Pat Walsh Guest Column I write to you today as a homeowner about to become the victim of eminent domain abuse at the hands of the Middletown Township Committee and Republican county freeholders. Using both state and federal tax dollars, they have crafted a bridge replacement project (County Bridge-17) that –…

  • Greg Bean

    Coda With John Merla, it’s one goofy thing after another ‘Merla Blames Outburst on Mother Insult, Split Pants.” Unless you get the Indepen-dent, the Greater Media newspaper that covers the Monmouth County Bayshore towns that include Keyport, you likely would have missed that headline in last week’s edition of the paper. But for those of…

  • Opening Hazlet swim club not fiscally responsible

    Determined to practice fiscal responsibility, the Hazlet Township Committee recently tried to stop a substantial waste of taxpayer dollars. Unfortunately, a special interest group successfully lobbied against the committee’s effort. The Hazlet Swim and Tennis Club operates as a utility. Under state law, utilities must be self-supporting. Membership fees and sources other than township tax…

  • Be kind to animals that can’t speak for themselves

    I am a high school student and I know fully well that abusing and torturing innocent animals is a terrible thing to do (“Probation dealt for groundhog killings,” May 10). I fortunately can act on my morals, because I would never be able to harm innocent creatures; and if I did, I pray I would…

  • KBA board members thank property owners for support

    We would like to thank all commercial property owners who have supported and stuck with us for the past year. We had a rough year with only three of us on the board and were not able to make changes in the operation of the Keyport Business Alliance (KBA) as we had hoped. Now with…

  • Time for Keyport to look beyond loyalty to friends

    Enough with the Sandra Shevlin pity party (“New board member’s comment was a cheap shot,” May 3, and “New board member should be as graceful as Shevlin,” May 10). I am continuously amazed people even consider one comment an important issue to waste time on. So what, he said what he said! What about the…