Category: Independent Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Carmine J. Errico Jr. Mr. Errico, 56, of Hazlet, died Oct. 6 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Newark, he resided in Keyport prior to moving to Hazlet three years ago. He was a disc jockey at Music Masters Unlimited, Hazlet, for the past 20 years. He served with the U.S. Navy during…

  • Board hires firm to aid superintendent search

    BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — The Board of Education moved a step forward in the quest for a new superintendent by appointing a firm to assist in the search. The board voted 8-0, in the absence of board member Elizabeth Allocco, to approve the Institute for Education Leadership at…

  • Letters

    All three Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex railroad routes are losers The recent letter to the editor from Brian and Barbara Buckley, of Freehold, about the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) railroad (“Matawan MOM Spur Would Mean Loss of Trail,” Independent, Sept. 28) didn’t let the facts get in the way of their “not-in-my-backyard” reasoning. NJ Transit’s 2005 Draft Environmental Impact…

  • Archives & History Day offers look back in time

    Those area residents who like to recall how things were back in the old days — you know, the way it was when they moved here in 1995 — can broaden their view just a bit this weekend. The 10th annual Archives and History Day will be held on Saturday at the Monmouth County Library…

  • Merla taking a page from Mad magazine

    Coda Greg Bean I’ve been trying, but I can’t imagine how Mayor John Merla — the Alfred E. Neuman of Keyport politics — is going to blame this one on the media. Merla, who was among the first throng of municipal officials and hangers-on charged with corruption last spring by U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Christie,…

  • Letters

    FACE program failed candidates and voters The Independent’s critical review of the Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project (FACE) in the Sept. 28 issue was right on. I was first introduced to FACE at a political picnic last summer, attended by former Assemblyman Bill Flynn. Although I contributed to this project, I was apprehensive about…

  • Let’s hope his cell mate is another GoodFella

    Coda Greg Bean I don’t know whether to file this one under “A Cautionary Tale” or “Where Are They Now?” If you’re a movie or fiction buff, you certainly remember the 1990 movie “GoodFellas” based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi, and you likely remember Henry Hill, the mob informer played by Ray Liotta. You…