Category: Independent Opinion

  • Municipal Web sites have great Net worth

    Anyone who has visited Hazlet’s municipal Web site recently was in for a treat. With a fresh look and a wealth of new content, the township’s site has moved from about average to one of the better examples in our coverage area. What makes a good municipal Web site? On the most simple level, those…

  • S-1701 ‘indefensible’ and must be changed

    My colleagues and I appreciate Dan Newman’s coverage of our trip to Trenton to deliver our 1,000 letters protesting S-1701. I think it is important for the public to understand the reason for this stealthily forced legislation. It was not intended to make any real inroads against property taxes but designed to give the appearance…

  • Councilman urges readers to seek help for the ‘common cold’ of mental illnesses

    Joseph Wedick Guest Column Please allow me the opportunity to comment on the recent stories that have appeared concerning my actions and the resulting outfall of those actions. I have come to understand that I am, just like many of you, a person who is dealing with depression. Until I experienced it firsthand, I did…

  • VFW congratulates new Middletown mayor

    Congratulations to our new mayor, Thomas Hall. On behalf off the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 2179, and the Ladies Auxiliary, we wish to extend our sincere congratulations to you on being elected mayor of Middletown Township year 2005. Wishing you and your family great success and good health during…

  • KBA’s work has ‘triggered long-awaited renaissance’

    While the Keyport Business Alliance’s (KBA) board of directors welcomes healthy debate over the Business Improvement District (BID) assessment, we must take issue with the main focus of complaints expressed by members of the Concerned Commercial Property and Business Owners and the Keyport Chamber of Commerce. If these individuals spent less time asking “What have…

  • Obituaries

    James P. Nemeth Mr. Nemeth, 85, of Chapin, S.C., died Jan. 8 at home. Born in South Amboy, he relocated to Chapin three years ago. Mr. Nemeth was a brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, South Amboy, where he was employed more than 40 years before retiring. He was a member of the Independence Engine &…

  • The battle of S-1701

    A group of concerned Middletown parents delivered a stack of signatures and a message to Trenton last week: S-1701 will carry disastrous consequences for New Jersey’s schools, and must be altered or repealed. Readers should prepare for more stories like these in the weeks ahead as school districts struggle to craft their budgets through these…

  • Obituaries

    Edward A. Jackson Mr. Jackson, 90, of Sea Bright, died Jan. 14 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was a 30-year resident of Sea Bright. Mr. Jackson was a pressman at the New York Post, New York City, before his retirement, and a member of the Pressmen’s Union for the New York newspapers. He…