Category: Independent Opinion
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Lucent sale carries long-term ramifications
Last Monday, the Holmdel Township Committee discussed contingency plans for the day Lucent Technologies sold its massive office complex. Three days later, those plans took on a whole new urgency. Lucent announced it has entered a due diligence period for the sale of the Bell Laboratories Research and Development property to Pennsylvania-based Preferred Real Estate…
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For the Record
A Police Beat item in the March 22 issue incorrectly stated that Kathleen O’Dwyer was charged with simple assault on Feb. 5 in Hazlet. O’Dwyer was not charged with any crime in relation to the incident.
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Coyote was just taking a nice walk in the park
Coda Greg Bean I was listening to the folks on National Public Radio last Wednesday morning, talking about the poor coyote that authorities were chasing around New York’s Central Park with helicopters, tranquilizer darts and the like, and I wondered why they just didn’t let the critter be. There’s no telling how the misguided animal…
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Seniors will feel the sting of tax increases
Coda Greg Bean In my neighborhood of East Bruns-wick, there are several elderly women and men struggling to get by. Most of these wonderful people have lived in the community for most of their adult lives. They raised their families there in modest houses. And after the kids moved away and their partners died, they…
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It’s just one darned thing after the other
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch I ran toward the kitchen not long ago, tilting at full speed. My heart was racing, my brow was sweating, and as I rounded the corner, I breathed a sigh of relief. Just as I was about to do whatever it was that I was about to do, all…
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Letters
Seats not only thing at stake in election In response to your March 8 editorial on school board races, I do agree it is unfortunate such a small number of people choose to run for this very important job. However, the board seats are not the only thing at stake here. The people who chose…
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Obituaries
Josephine “Chickie” DeMaria Mrs. DeMaria, 88, of Middletown, died March 20 at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided there before moving to Middletown 25 years ago. Before her retirement in 1979, Mrs. DeMaria was a bank teller at the Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn, for 21 years. She was predeceased by…
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Hoffman, DeFilippis win St. Paddy’s 10-Mile Race
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Eatontown’s Bill Hoffman, a CBA graduate, sets the pace during Sunday’s St. Paddy’s 10-Mile Race at Michael Tighe Park in Freehold. Former Christian Brothers Academy star Bill Hoffman still knows how to win races. The 25-year-old from Eatontown bested the field at Sunday’s…
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Parents group works to increase budget voters
BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer ABERDEEN – Krista Ruprecht wants you to vote yes for the 2006-07 school budget, but she won’t say it outright. Instead, she will settle for voter registration and absentee ballot distribution, anything that will get you to the polls. As a member of Kidz Count, a…
