Category: Independent Opinion

  • Action urged to avert genocide in Sudan

    For the first time in its history, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has declared a Genocide Emergency, saying that genocide is imminent or is actually happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. More than 2 million people are being affected by a campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by…

  • Residents don’t want to live at ‘gateway to dump’

    The application to expand the Marpal Inc. (Republic Services) dump facility on Wayside Road, Tinton Falls, should be denied. The request to expand is to further assault the quality of life of every resident who lives in the area of this facility and every resident who lives along the roads that provide access to this…

  • Parent grateful for son’s participation in program

    I just finished reading the article "Summer Reading Program Keeps Beginners Sharp" by Dan Newman. The author missed several important points about this great program: If your child does not go to a Title 1 school, they are not eligible for this program. Six grammar schools in Middletown are labeled as Title 1 schools. What…

  • Obituaries

    Alice M. Tumia Obituaries Alice M. Tumia Mrs. Tumia, 85, of Red Bank, died July 25 in Titusville, Fla. Formerly of Lincroft, she had been a resident of Red Bank since 1979. Mrs. Tumia was an assistant director of activities for the Holmdel Convalescent Center, Holmdel, retiring in 1974. She was a communicant of St.…

  • Obituaries

    Theresa M. Dietrich Obituaries Theresa M. Dietrich Mrs. Dietrich, 69, of Middletown, died Aug. 6 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Newark, she resided there prior to moving to Middletown 33 yeas ago. She was a bank manager at First Union Bank, Belford section of Middletown, for 25 years, retiring six years ago. She…

  • Cross Farm Park not viable for Pop Warner

    Playing sports teaches children teamwork, honesty and integrity. In the debate over where Holmdel Pop Warner football should practice and play, only some are embracing these principles. Pop Warner is pushing for expensive development of new, lighted football fields on the Cross Farm Park property across Route 520 from Village School. This is in direct…

  • Hazlet student pleads for end to overdevelopment

    I am eight years old and go to Lillian Drive School in Hazlet. I learned trees make oxygen, which we need to breathe. When trees get cut down, less oxygen is made. I think this is why so many kids I know — including me — have asthma. While riding around Hazlet and Holmdel, I…

  • Town gives ‘little thought to future generations’

    The July issue of the Independent printed two very interesting articles concerning the purchase and sale of land. In the first couple of pages was a story about the Middletown Township governing body reaching agreement to preserve more than five acres of vacant wooded property in the Leonardo section, at a cost of $1.32 million.…

  • Orsini neighbor says reply was polite, spoke to facts

    As if violating its own policy of not publishing political trash talk was not enough, the Independent’s melodramatic headline to the July 28 Peggy Lasky letter, "Orsini hammering nails in own political coffin," qualifies for bird-cage-bottom-liner of the month. Holmdel Republican local official Peggy Lasky got her tiara all bent out of shape because Township…