Category: Independent Opinion

  • Holmdel High scholars named

    BY PAT MILLERStaff Writer BY PAT MILLER Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Board of Education honored a number of Holmdel High School students who were named National Merit Scholars in the National Merit Scholarship program. "It’s so great to see so many students in front of me," said Principal Robert Anderson. Thirty-four students were named…

  • Your Turn

    George S. AnthonyGuest ColumnStudents connecting with students is way to teach peace Your Turn George S. Anthony Guest Column Students connecting with students is way to teach peace George S. Anthony Guest Column Students connecting with students is way to teach peace Often school districts, administrations and parent groups expose students to assembly programs that…

  • Dates for Freneau hearings anger Aberdeen resident

    I find it incredulous that Aberdeen Township Council’s Freneau hearings regarding the building of 710 units on the borders of three townships were split, (Mirror Lake on Nov. 6, and Horizons at Aberdeen Forge Nov. 13) and furthermore, that they were delayed until after elections. Four seats and the majority of the all-Democratic council are…

  • Resident makes appeal to hunt seven days a week

    Resident makes appeal to hunt seven days a week I make a call to all New Jersey hunters in regard to Public Law 23:4-24 that states no person shall hunt on Sunday. Be advised that Assembly Bill 3064 authored by Assemblywoman Rose Heck would repeal this law and give working stiffs like many others and…

  • Scout as GI Joe doesn’t ap­peal to resident

    Scout as GI Joe doesn’t ap­peal to resident Recently a picture of a Boy Scout marching in a parade was published in your paper. He had a gun over his shoulder and an army helmet on his head. I always thought the Scouts were not considered a military unit. I was incensed they should be…

  • Middletown council urges residents to promote arts

    The Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council has recently received a great deal of press. Middletown is a large and diverse township. Its residents, like all, are entitled to their opinions; however, I think all Middletown residents can agree on the need to continue to bring together residents, artists and arts organizations in order to…

  • Resident questions hasty Forge passage

    Aberdeen Township and its Planning Board have decided to resurrect, after 15 years, a development which was then known as Aberdeen Forge, and which was highly controversial then because of the strain on the schools, traffic, water drainage, environment and on the quality life in general. The new project planned for the same site is…

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries Andrew E. Petti Jr. Mr. Petti, 38, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Aberdeen, died Oct. 24 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Newark, he resided in Old Bridge and the Cliffwood Beach area for 30 years. He was an irrigation systems installer at Central Jersey Irrigation, Englishtown. Mr. Petti is survived by…