Category: Independent Opinion

  • Your Turn

    Stuart ChaifetzGuest ColumnHunting in parks is perilous and irresponsible Your Turn Stuart Chaifetz Guest Column Hunting in parks is perilous and irresponsible Stuart Chaifetz Guest Column Hunting in parks is perilous and irresponsible On March 23, I met with the Monmouth County Park System staff in regard to the planned opening of nine county parks…

  • Perhaps denial of liquor li­cense is discriminatory

    I have patronized the Garibaldi Restaurant in Keyport many times, both to dine out and to take home food. I have been there in the evening and the daytime, and I do not see the negative portrayal of the restaurant by residents as fair. The restaurant is clean, the food authentic and well prepared, and…

  • Board confused about deer and tick connection

    The Monmouth County Board of Recreation Commissioners should be ashamed of themselves for even considering allowing hunting in our parks. Using Lyme disease or "forest health" as a cover for their deplorable, primeval behavior is a flimsy cover at best. They are obviously confused about the correlation between the presence of deer and that of…

  • Hazlet Hunter takes strong offense to letter

    I must really take strong offense to the letter from Anita Linke of Holmdel printed April 21. I am a father of three and grandfather also, but I can assure you I do not derive an intense thrill from inflicting fear in the deer I hunt. This is another example of an emotional, uninformed person…

  • Back-room politics alive and well in Republican Party

    The matter of infighting in the Monmouth County Republican Party is interesting. The facts coming out about the expenditures by Ed Stominski are revealing. The choosing of a new candidate for freeholders shows old-fashioned, smoke-filled, back-room politics are alive and well in the Monmouth County Republican Party. The one positive thing to come out of…

  • Parent of autistic child outraged by reader’s opinion

    Parent of autistic child outraged by reader’s opinion I believe the person whose letter to the editor stated, "If I had a child that became distraught because the cafeteria was in a new location, I’d question my fitness as a parent for sending such a child to public school in the first place," owes the…

  • Candidates express concern for seniors and taxes

    Candidates express concern for seniors and taxes A recent letter to the editor (Independent, April 14) from Mr. Eldred Stenzel about taxes in Holmdel rightly points out how older residents’ interests are often not recognized, though seniors contribute much to stabilize the fiscal base of our town. We are especially concerned about Holmdel’s seniors. As…

  • Obituaries

    George R. Cahill Obituaries George R. Cahill Mr. Cahill, 80, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen, died April 25 at home. Born in New York City, he resided in the Bronx, N.Y., and California prior to moving to Cliffwood Beach 59 years ago. He was a retired postman with the U.S. Postal Service, Keyport.…

  • Voters send out budget message

    Voters send out budget message Middletown and Hazlet school officials had a lot to cheer about when both school budgets were passed April 20. Voters rejected three out of five school budgets in the area. The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School budget failed by 678 votes, or by nearly 25 percent of the vote. The budget would…