Category: Independent Opinion

  • Development will sacrifice nature of communities

    The National Park Service is preparing to grant a 60-year lease contract to Sandy Hook Partners, a private development firm which will dramatically change the use of Sandy Hook and impact the future of the surrounding communities. Under the guise of preserving buildings of questionable historical importance at Fort Hancock, this pending deal will bring…

  • 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…

  • Obituaries

    Donald "DuBo" DuBrosky Obituaries Donald "DuBo" DuBrosky Mr. DuBrosky, 59, of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown, died Oct. 18 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Red Bank, he was a lifelong resident of Port Monmouth. Mr. DuBrosky was a collection agency supervisor at Middletown Township Sewerage Authority for 31 years. He served…

  • Holmdel resident says Fink, not GOP, preserved land

    In a recent letter, former Holmdel Mayor Mollie Giamanco credits the old guard Republicans with saving all of the open space in Holmdel. It is true some land was saved during their 27 years in office, but it was always someone else and not the Republican-controlled Township Committee that took the initiative to save land.…

  • Board’s move a lesson on ‘reverse ageism’

    What a great idea announced earlier this week by the Board of Elections to attempt to get young people involved in the voting process. The goal is supposed to be to train them to help with the upcoming elections so they can be involved at an early age, with the hope they will continue to…

  • Reader likes Fink’s fiscal and environmental policies

    Reader likes Fink’s fiscal and environmental policies In May 2002, a local periodical honored me with an article about me as a community maker. Holmdel’s Chief of Police R. Bruce Phillips had recommended me because of my involvement in community affairs. Following the Jaycee Creed, "service to humanity is the best work of life," I…

  • Hazlet Township needs to vote yes for open space

    How much development is enough in Hazlet Township? How many strip malls, townhouses and roads does a town really need to be livable? The Bayshore Regional Watershed Council believes Hazlet Township has changed enough in the past 40 years and it is now time for residents to start preserving land for open space. Acres of…

  • Resident is well pleased with Larry Fink’s record

    It’s that time of the year again when aspiring regular Republican politicians such as Pat Impreveduto try to learn the age-old art of political spin. This consists of making a negative into a positive by the careful replacement of specific negative facts with artfully contrived broad generalities. To wit: campaigning as a member of the…